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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: DOCUMENTS CAN LIE, TOO: THE "LESSONS" OF HISTORY (PART 3)
Description: You cannot help but approach your sources from your own experiences and backgrounds
Our three-part roundtable on the "Lessons" of History concludes as Con Crane, Jacqueline E. Whitt, and Andrew A. Hill discuss the importance of critical thinking for developing historical mindedness. From the subjectivity of first-person accounts to the modern phenomenon of so-called "fake news," what is presented as definitive history is almost assuredly not. How can a historical mindset help individuals sort out what information is valid or not? How can we construct useful and clear understandings of what happened in the past?
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Con Crane is a military hi...