Hey, history this week listeners, Sally here. 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 2 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 order, and the historical context of these

speeches, helping tell the stories of visionary leaders and discipline 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-swept 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 decay and do the other things, not because they are easy,

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

it learns that he will have to break us in this island all over the world. If we can stand up to him,

all 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 vated breaths for that

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