103. Erased History: What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know
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Welcome to season six! We're a bit late on kicking it all off so thank you for your patience!
In season six, we decided to change up our format and each of us will take an episode, instead of doing two stories per episode. We are also stretching our total number of episodes per season to 10 instead of 8 (5 episodes per sister.)
Laurel is starting things off for the season. She's fired up and tackling the erasure of history. The rewriting and erasure of historic events and peoples has been a tactic long used across history -- from ancient civilizations into the VERY present day. What does the erasure of history say about power and those who do it? What does this say about identity and how people remember their own history?...WHY WOULD GOVERNMENTS FEEL THE NEED TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF HISTORY AT ALL?
This season, Laurel will be continuing to highlight people and events from history that governments and administrations have tried to rewrite, reshape or completely pave over.
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Mentioned in the Stories:
Episode 64. The History of the Caribbean
Episode 66. The Jaguar and Eagle Warriors
Episode 70. The History of Sex Pt. 2
Episode 37. The Third Wave Social Experiment
Episode 91. The History of Witches
Episode 95. The History of American Protest Music
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Source Material and References:
(Some extra materials are shown in photo form during the podcast)
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the past: Power and the production of history Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1997.
https://theconversation.com/operation-legacy-how-britain-covered-up-its-colonial-crimes-225330
https://time.com/4994524/myanmar-rohingya-fortify-rights-genocide/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_genocide
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most
https://time.com/5767893/national-archives-apology-womens-march-photo/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order
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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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