History is vast and complex, but it can be better understood by looking at critical moments in which a single person

Approached a crowd with something important to say. I'm here to share a preview of the new season of it was said

The 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series written and narrated by Pulitzer prize winning author historian John Meacham

It was said season two will focus on 10

Generation defining speeches including those from Nelson Mandela

Winston Churchill

Eleanor Roosevelt and Frederick Douglass in every episode Meacham along with top historians authors and journalists

offer expert insight and analysis into the origins the orator and the historical context of these speeches

Helping tell the stories of visionary leaders and disciplined communicators whose words continue to resonate today

Be sure to listen to it was said a creation and production of Peabody Award nominated C-13 originals in association with the history channel

Available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you listen to your podcasts

We stand on a lonely wind sweat point on the northern shore of France

The air is soft

But 40 years ago at this moment the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men

And the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon

When visionary leaders capture the imagination of a nation

We choose to go to the moon and this decayed and do the other thing

Not because they are easy, but because they are hard

When disciplined communicators speak truth to power

It learners that he will have to break us in this island all over the wall

If we can stand up to him or your husband may be freed and the life of the world may move forward

The course of history can be altered

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