History Against the Grain

Author: Josh Weiner & Chris Padgett

Hosted by two historians, History Against the Grain is about developing an approach to history that challenges the dominant narratives, tears down the tired myths, and upends traditional assumptions. Historyagainstthegrain@gmail.com
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We Are[n't] the World
Friday, 28 March, 2025

Chris and Josh discuss living in an age of pandemic, play a game of Love/Hate, and Josh explains the need to decolonize world history. Contact us at historyagainstthegrain@gmail.com Website: Historyagainstthegrain.com References in this Episode: Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction, An Unnatural History, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185 Jill Lepore, "What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About," https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/what-our-contagion-fables-are-really-about Carl Zimmer, "Welcome to the Virosphere," https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/science/viruses-coranavirus-biology.html Aimé Césaire, Discourses on Colonialism, https://nyupress.org/9781583670255/discourse-on-colonialism/ Nicholas Thomas, Colonialism's Culture, https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691037318/colonialisms-culture