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Washington Journal: From Kaho‘olawe to the Silk Road
History is too often told as the triumphs of individual great white men: the generals, presidents, scholars and inventors. History as a collaborative, interactive enterprise, where cultures and peoples of all kinds interact and shape each other, is much harder to teach, understand and commercially packaged. Real life struggles rarely get resolved in the time allotted to a 30-minute television sitcom, and the participants in real life struggles are rarely one-dimensional “good guys” and “bad guys.” As the dynamic liberation movements of the last three decades have shown us, while there have been many great men of European ancestry who have done many great deeds, women and people of color have also played an integral role in the development of this country and the world.
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