These Truths: A History of the United States — Who Gets to Define American Truth?
History is not the past itself. It is what survives of the past—and that distinction changes how we understand nations, institutions, and political truth.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore as our lens, this episode investigates the relationship between historical evidence, political power, national identity, and the ideals Americans have repeatedly invoked to define themselves.
Lepore begins with the uneven nature of the historical record. Diaries disappear. Oral traditions can be…
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