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Make-Believe History

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Alanna Shaffer joins us to talk about how, even when telling made-up stories, we can be aware of biases in the way we talk about history. Whose stories get told? Whose get left behind? And what's our responsibility to our fictional worlds?

Mentioned reading:

  • Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves
  • The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence by Max Edelson
  • The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg
  • Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal
  • A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman
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