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Is TikTok Our New History Book?

April 16, 2025

In This Episode:

Who gets to decide whether kids are taught about Harriet Tubman? Nayyera & Jamal are joined by Jason Steinhauer, historian and author of History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past to understand how Trump and MAGA are trying to change our collective memory and pretend uncomfortable parts of history never happened. Jason explains how public institutions like the Library of Congress and National Archives shape the narratives about our society—the more complex and diverse the perspectives included, the closer we get to understanding our true reality. In a modern fragmented information space, the social media record is a way to understand history in real time.

More from Jason Steinhauer: History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past | Instagram| website

 

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