As a history nerd, I really enjoyed this podcast. Not because I was pleased by the content, it was actually extremely off-putting. We think we know so much about history but we really just don’t. We know what the people throughout history decided we should know. They decided what to write down, what to record and what stories to pass on through generations. Just like we are deciding all of those things for people in the future.<\/p>\n
I find it interesting looking back at history classes in middle and high school and how comical (?) the content is. I remember last semester sitting in Dr. Hayter’s Justice class, often literally astounded at the things we learned, thinking about how differently I learned it before coming to college. For example, we learned about the horrors of the Holocaust every year, but we conveniently never learned about how Hitler and the Nazis were inspired by activities in America (race laws\/Jim Crow, eugenic sterilizations laws\/Harry Laughlin). In AP US History in 12th grade, we spent more time learning about Coolidge’s presidency than we spent on the Civil Rights Movement. I don’t know if this was just New York State’s Common Core curriculum or if we ran out of time at the end of the year, but either way it’s pretty upsetting.<\/p>\n
The way we see history through the lens of “white christian men with money” is probably pretty significant to how we see the world, even in the present. We grew up not learning about women in history, POC\u00a0 in history, poor people in history, or really any minority group in history. I like to think that this will change for future generations, but at this rate I am pretty doubtful I will see significant change in my lifetime. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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