Synopsis
It’s HAG’s Aluminum anniversary episode and tis the season for revision! For Episode 10 Chris and Josh dig into their own back stories by discussing how seminal moments in their lives and teaching had them seeing history from new perspectives. Speaking of new perspectives, Chris offers some fresh picked and refreshing history reads to get you through a social distanced summer, and Josh tackles the myth of the White God and explains why ‘revision’ is not a four letter word.
To hear Episode 5 Revising History, click on the link below:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revising-history/id1505429529?i=1000476141018
Sources Referenced
Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393265446
Henry Wiencek, Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466827783
Trevor Getz & Liz Clarke, Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
Christopher Columbus Reports on His First Voyage (1493)
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/01427_fps.pdf
Hernán Cortés, Letters of Hernán Cortés to the Emperor Charles V
“Theodore de Bry’s America,” University of Houston Digital Library
https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll39
I.C. Campbell, “The Culture of Culture Contact: Refractions from Polynesia”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/38613
Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691057521/the-apotheosis-of-captain-cook
“As if in their excavations of the past, they have buried us in the rubble. And when we engage in historical revision, we are trying to dig out of that rubble and hopefully see the past in a new way.”
Josh Weiner
History Against the Grain 