About Historical Sense

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History is everywhere. It inspires political projects such as the Green New Deal, echoes in slogans such as “Make America Great Again,” and provokes conflicts over public monuments, race, foreign policy, labor, regulation, the environment, and inequality. This channel features videos that instill viewers with a historical sense of the misconceptions and myths about the past that inform present concerns, issues, and debates. As T.S. Elliot wrote, "the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence."

Why the War on Poverty Failed to End Racial Inequality

The War on Poverty aimed to end racial inequality, but today racial inequality is worse than its ever been. This video shows why. Lyndon Johnson's war to end poverty failed to reduce racial inequality because Great Society liberals blamed a culture of poverty for destitution rather than the structu…

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The 'Indians Fought Wars Too' Denial of Genocide

A common rebuttal to the claim that Euro-American settlers genocided Native Americans is that "Indians fought wars too." However, the European conquest of the North American continent was more than just another war for land or resources. Anglo-American settler colonialism was driven by the fanatica…

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How Progressives Cleaned up the Private Sector's Sh*t

Sanitation was once a private service for profit generally only available to the well-off. But the enormous health and social costs of the privatized city led to progressive municipalization. The municipalization of sanitation made cities healthier than the countryside for the first time in history…

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