History is vast and complex, but it can be better understood by looking at critical moments.

Those moments where 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. It's 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 C13 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 disdicate and do the other thing, not because they are easy,

but because they are hard. When disciplined communicators speak truth to power,

it learns that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him,

or your earth may be freed, and the life of the world may move forward.

The course of history can be altered. Humanity has been shaped by moments in which one person

approached a crowd with something important to say. To those waiting with baited breaths for that

favorite media catchphrase that you turn, I have only one thing to say. You turn if you want to.

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