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Month: September 2020

Unsilencing the Past

September 15, 2020August 16, 2022 Kate Wilson1 Comment

This last week students in both my public history classes discussed Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Silencing the Past is one of my favorite history books, and an incredibly important discussion of how power shapes our understandings of history and how history produces and maintains power. Trouillot maintains that… Continue reading Unsilencing the Past →

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