#1529 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part Two)

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky continue their discussion prompted by a letter from a teacher in Iowa who asks what they think are the ten most important American historical events she should teach to her students.

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0:00.0	What are we doing? Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners. We love our podcast
0:07.9	listeners. You know, it was like about a month ago, we asked them our listeners about
0:19.1	possible sponsorship for the show. And that's really an unanswered question. But within
0:27.0	in a couple of days, we had literally hundreds of responses. We were inundated with good
0:34.4	suggestions. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, from all standpoints. And anyway, that's a subject to
0:40.7	be continued. Today, now we recorded this a little out of sequence because of schedules of yours
0:48.4	and schedules of Lindsay's. But we came to part two of the 10 most important historical events.
0:56.8	And it was just a great conversation, kind of open-ended, went to places I didn't anticipate.
1:04.5	I really enjoyed it very, very much. Ditto. You know, each of us made a list of 10 pivotal moments.
1:11.1	This was from a question by Bridget from I think Iowa. And so we got to 20 and then we each had
1:17.3	extras. So it wound up being around 30 total. And of course, if you went to professional
1:24.6	university historians and said, these two knuckleheads are going to do this, they'd say,
1:28.7	can't be done. It's a silly enterprise that that's reductionist, et cetera. But I don't think
1:34.2	that's true at all. But it was fascinating. And we, you know, we talked about how historians think,
1:39.9	how she thinks. And you know, how we need to be really cautious about commenting on events of
1:45.6	our own time because they haven't settled out yet. We don't know what historical weight they will
1:50.0	have. You came at it as a humanity scholar. And she came at it as a historian. For better or
1:55.7	worse, my own training is a mile wide, let's say, in an inch deep. And she's much more of an American
2:01.6	historian of the early national period. And so it was too really contrasting styles. And I think it
2:06.6	actually works for the Thomas Jefferson hour. I think it would be a less interesting program if we
2:12.8	were to historians of the early national period. I don't know if the word contrasting styles.
2:18.0	I'd stand for that because it's more a case of you bring each of you, bring out more areas
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