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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: "Birth Of A Nation" (1915) w/ Tyler Parry
Description: It’s February 8th. This day in 1915, at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles, “The Birth of a Nation” premiered.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Tyler Parry of UNLV to discuss D.W. Griffith’s film and some of the myths and truths about how the film portrayed the Civil War and led to a resurgence of the KKK around the country.
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