Podcast
Contingent Podcast #1: A Usable History of Reconstruction
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The greatest strength of the new PBS documentary is its desire to inform contemporary debates. But this may also be one of its weaknesses.
Bonus
Contingent Podcast #5: All The Presidents’ Librarians
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Michael Koncewicz compares Watergate to Russia/Ukraine-gate, pushes back on Richard Nixon revisionism, explains the difference between an archivist and a curator, and recalls his first dance with a girl.
Bonus
Contingent Podcast #4: In Memoriam: Panbabylonianism
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Can a classicist study Akkadian? Was the Fertile Crescent part of Western civilization? Why is the history of science nearly a field unto itself?
Contingent Podcast #4: E.L. Meszaros
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Did Western civilization begin in the Fertile Crescent? What’s it like being a modern circus performer?