The Name of War — Memory, Narrative, and Colonial Power (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore as a systems-level analysis of how violence is interpreted, remembered, and transformed into national identity.
By focusing on narrative authority rather than military outcomes, the book reveals how literacy, symbolism, and selective memory stabilized colonial power and shaped American self-understanding long after the war ended.
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