In this episode of Can I Get a Retake? we chat with Diane Margolf and Kristin Heineman, professors of history at Colorado State University. Join us as we explore the inherent challenges of compressing 3,000 years of Ancient Near Eastern and Western history into a semester-long survey course. How do historians assess which figures to spotlight and which voices to amplify? Diane and Kristin shed light on a newer movement in historical research, where assessing material culture and reading traditional primary sources against the grain allows a new generation of researchers to uncover traces of marginalized communities throughout history.

Learn more about their publication, Western Civilization - From Antiquity to the Age of Expansion: https://bit.ly/3pxwSWJ

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