Ergebnis für "Amnesia" in Welt

Welcome to The United States of Amnesia, a podcast exploring the lessons we’ve forgotten, misunderstood, or never learned. As the saying goes, history repeats itself. Mark Twain allegedly refined this: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Yet over time, history, politics, and religion have been distorted by bias, oversimplification, and myth. Check out our website to learn more: www.usofamnesia.com. Misunderstanding the past means misreading the present and misstepping into the future. This podcast aims to cut through the fog, reconnecting past and present to help us think ...

In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim charts how the events of June 4 changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4 by rewriting its own history. Lim reveals new details about those fateful days, including how one of the country's most senior politicians lost a family member to an army bullet, as well as the inside story of the young soldiers sent to clear Tiananmen Square.

This is a podcast where two best friends, Kim and Khadija, attempt to fill in the lines of history that our nation seems to have forgotten. Now, more than ever, attacks on teaching hard history and real history is ever present in our society. Each week we will not only tackle a few big news stories, we will choose a topic and fill in some gray areas and even surprise each other with new facts. It is important to us that if you find a topic interesting, you go ahead and read some books and do some quality research and learn more yourself. Oh, and reality TV…we will defiantly discuss Bravo!

History is a tool for understanding the world we inhabit. Identifying our roots and our world's intellectual history helps us clear the fog of war that we have been so keen to accept as reality. The ultimate goal and future direction of this podcast is the promotion of a practical historicism. This podcast is an extension of the Historical Amnesia YouTube channel. If you enjoy history, philosophy, culture, and discussion consider subscribing!