American History Has Been Weaponized Against Us - Jack Henneman
I sat down with Jack Henneman, host of the “History of the Americans” podcast, to discuss the early history of the American colonies, the weaponization of history for political purposes, and why judging the past by today’s standards corrupts our ability to understand it.
We get into:
* Why Jack launched a podcast to read American history from the very beginning
* How the New York Times weaponized the 1619 Project to reshape history education
* How Spain’s conquest of the New World set the stage for English colonization
* Why the Puritans and the Virginia planters built two completely…
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