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Friday, November 25 2016

  • Ghosts November 25, 2016

    How what we choose to remember shapes our world. (episode)

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    • No, This Isn't Just Like 1968 (Or Any Other Year) November 25, 2016

      This year, many have looked to history to explain current political events. Historian Rick Perlstein says that they're getting it all wrong.

    • KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON LISTENING November 25, 2016

      The origins of the ubiquitous, insufferable, all-purpose "Keep&nbsp;Calm&nbsp;and Carry On" slogan.&nbsp;

    • Resurrecting Kitty Genovese: A Love Story November 25, 2016

      The brother of Kitty Genovese&nbsp;tracks down some of the witnesses to his sister's infamous death&nbsp;in an attempt to retrieve the whole story of her life.

    • The Radical Historian Rewriting Ukraine's Past November 25, 2016

      With the help of&nbsp;new "de-communization" laws, the&nbsp;head of Ukraine's Institute of National Memory is doing everything he can to erase&nbsp;certain chapters in Ukraine's past.

    • In Praise of Forgetting November 25, 2016

      "History is about the past. Memory is about how we use the past for the purposes of the present."