The Capitol Riots in Context
HISTORY This Week
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
January 6, 2021. As Congress voted to affirm Joe Biden as the incoming president, rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to thwart the election certification. This insurrection shook the nation to its core, forcing many to question the steadfastness of nearly 250 years of democratic rule. In this special episode, we asked historians to join a discussion about where this moment stands in American history, and what we can learn from the past to show us a path forward.
This episode features Sharron Conrad (postdoctoral fellow at SMU’s Center for Presidential History), Beverly Gage (professor of American history and director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University), and Steve Gillon (scholar-in-residence at The History Channel and professor of history at the University of Oklahoma).
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| 0:40.5 | History this week. I'm Sally Helm. On January 6th, 2021, a mob attacked the US Capitol. |
| 0:48.3 | This would be the first time since 1814 that the headquarters of our government was breached on this |
| 0:52.8 | scale. So this week we bring you something a little different, |
| 0:56.5 | a special episode to give us a historical perspective on current events. |
| 1:04.0 | US Capitol overrun under scene. Chaos. Violence. Lawmakers under lockdown. |
| 1:10.3 | I riot was declared stunning images of rioters supporting President Trump overrun the Capitol. |
| 1:16.0 | I call on President Trump to demand demand to this scene. |
| 1:20.2 | We served some people, bring up a 20-getth amendment officially, |
| 1:23.1 | a decrypting Joe Biden. What's the course to be known for this? |
| 1:26.0 | We're just starting to appeal to President Biden to stay for the second time a little more than a year. |
| 1:34.4 | The past couple of weeks have felt kind of crazy. It feels like we are living through unprecedented |
| 1:39.4 | times, really. And so we at the show at History this week have decided to sit down with three historians |
| 1:45.0 | who can give us some context for what we're living through right now by looking to history. |
| 1:49.2 | So today with us we have Steve Gillan, who is a scholar in residence at the History Channel and |
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