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Have you noticed how often history content is marketed to you as hidden or secret or newly revealed?

I mean, I get it.

If you're telling a story from history that is already pretty well known, you want to communicate that your telling is new. So it's the hidden history of Watergate, or the secret history of D-Day, or even

the real history of the Constitution, which sort of implies that whatever you've heard before

isn't completely the truth. But there is a whole lot of secret, hidden, real history. In fact,

most of it is.

The billions of ordinary lives that have made up the bulk of the human story

are almost always hidden from us, undocumented.

But not uninteresting.

Which is why I love the title of the podcast we're sharing on today's Saturday matinee,

People Hidden in History.

It reminds us that behind all the pivotal moments, the battles and conquests and crises of

history are fascinating people with dynamic stories of their own, like Gigi, one of the many

World War II U.S. Navy waves, women accepted for volunteer emergency service.

I hope you enjoy. While you're listening,

be sure to search for and follow people hidden in history. We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you.

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