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Jan 11, 2019 52 min

Make-Believe History

from Design Doc Hosted by Hannah Shaffer and Evan Rowland

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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