Malcolm Gladwell here. This season on revisionist history we're going to the

heart of America's gun violence crisis. Six episodes. Some weird, some whimsical,

some heartbreaking, some angry. Because so much of what we believe about guns and

assault rifles and mass shootings is actually wrong. We're gonna talk about TV

westerns about a crime in a little town in rural Alabama about the nuttiness of

the Supreme Court but the world of trauma surgeons and wonder what would have

happened had Bobby Kennedy been shot today and not 50 years ago. Join me and

the revisionist history team for our six-part chaotic ride to America's gun

problem. It's our biggest series ever and one you won't want to miss. The

series premieres on August 31st. You can binge listen to all six episodes

early and add free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus on Apple Podcasts or by

visiting pushkin.fm slash plus or you can listen to the episodes weekly in the

revisionist history podcast feed.

Pushkin. Sometimes retrieving forgotten lives from the recesses of history feels

like magic. A kind of alchemy like raising the dead. Something that Hallie and I

often get asked making podcasts or in Hallie's case writing books about

social history is how do you find all of this information out? Where do you

look? How do you know where to start? After spending nearly 30 years training and

working as a historian some of what happens in the course of researching a

subject has, for me, started to feel instinctive. But there's a method to all of

this, a logical way of putting the pieces together and of using sources to

revive lost stories. Researchers and historians are fundamentally detectives.

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