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Podcast: The Great Deception Podcast
Episode: HH Bancroft's Misrepresentations of Early California History Corrected from 1894
Description: Welcome to episode 50 of The Great Deception Podcast where we look at more deception in the historical narrative. HH Bancroft, Historian of the Pacific States, credited with more than 60,000 pages and 39 volumes of history of the west and natives. He has a library at UC Berkley named after him til this day. Â Yet in 1894 The Society of California Pioneers, which Bancroft was an honorary member, wrote a collection of Bancroft misrepresentations and attacking his credibility. Â Bancroft is one of many characters in the narrative who are credited with writing his-story, many which need to be exposed as Bancroft is he...