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Yeah, but then talking about the power of the gospel. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. Episode 121. Every year historian Ada Palmer rolls back history. She rolls it back to this

busy period in human progress and runs it again and runs it again and again to see if the

same things happen in the same way every time. So my name is Ada Palmer and I teach history at the University of Chicago.

And the period of time that Ada reruns is the Italian Renaissance.

Which is my major specialty and I teach it every year for a mix of undergraduates and graduate students.

Whoever wants to come, we will visit the Renaissance.

Aida says that teaching the Renaissance is especially challenging because people already know or they think they know

a lot of facts from that era and the stuff they know about the Renaissance she says is usually really nice.

We like the Renaissance.

It's a positive period of history

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