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My name is Greg Jackson.

I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor and the creator of history that doesn't suck.

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fractious civil war, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.

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Right now, today, this very moment, if you chose to, you could look up information about what was happening

anywhere in the world.

What 30 years ago we would have had to read in tomorrow's newspaper or if we were lucky hear about on the nightly

news right now we can hear about almost exactly as it's happening.

The internet, well it's given us almost instant access to everything in the world.

Not just current events, but if you wanted to, you could look up string theory or physics, calculus,

or the works of Plato. You could look up how to build a

bookshelf or fix your car or boil an egg. This unprecedented access to

information has changed the way we look at everything from politics to economics

and society to entertainment.

Everything right now and how we view it is in flux and where are people that have learned to adapt to that.

For most of human history, if you were going to hear anything about what was happening in the wider world,

you would be lucky to hear about it weeks or months later if you heard

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