No History For You! - Ep. 3
The Wes Cecil Podcast · Sep 24, 2026 · 42:32
The Wes Cecil Podcast · Sep 24, 2026 · 42:32
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NO HISTORY FOR YOU!
In my second lecture I explore the bizarre and necessary historical amnesia that besets American culture. For the first 200 years of American settlement, the Native American culture was forcibly erased, then actively ignored once the ‘Natives’ problem had been “solved”. Also, the invisibility of the African American presence in much of the US, which represented 40-50% of the population in some states, created a further barrier to American history. Finally, the internal patterns of settlement and mass migration cemented a near total disregard for framing our cultural understanding in any historical sensibility.
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