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Podcast: New Books in Ancient History
Episode: Christopher Krebs, āA Most Dangerous Book: Tacitusās Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reichā (Norton, 2011)
Description: Being a historian is a bit of a slog: years in graduate school, more years in dusty libraries and archives, and even more years teaching students who sometimes donāt seem interested in learning what you have to teach. But the job does have its pleasures, and one of the greatestāand surely the guiltiestāis watching people screw history up. Not a day goes by when we donāt see someone get it wrong, dead wrong, or so wrong that itās not even wrong. To us, history is firmly anchored in authenticated sources that have been subjected to intense...