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THE HISTORY CAPSTONE: WHAT FOUR SEASONS OF HISTORY ACTUALLY TEACH

Episode 20 | Season 4 Capstone — History Episodes

In this History episode we close out Season 4 by drawing together all four seasons to articulate the patterns that have run through everything — Catherine the Great and Julius Caesar and Mao Zedong and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Cold War and the Ottoman Empire and the Maya.

This episode deepens the central pattern set: that resilience is not a property of empires, it is a property of people — the Maya, the Aymara, the Russian people have all outlasted the institutions that claimed to embody them — and that the truth has to be…

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