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This episode is off the timeline. We look at the various crimes against humanity to be found on “History Twitter,” the idea of pursuing a “useable” history and the perils therein, whether we should reduce the Constitution to Twitter-friendly labels such as “pro-slavery” or “anti-slavery,” and the disrespect many younger professors and graduate students show for the greatest historian of the American Revolution and the founding period, Brown University’s Gordon Wood, who is still pumping out sharply written books in his late eighties and standing up for history as a discipline. I also talk about some other podcasts that I like.
Oh, and it sounds slightly different because I have a new microphone in Austin and forgot to buy a foam cover for it. That will be fixed next time.
Enjoy!
References for this episode
Gordon Wood, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
Podcasts mentioned
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy
