Craig Fehrman
speaker
1,260 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
Craig Fehrman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
But there's one other thing I would say.
That feeling is skepticism and we should be skeptical.
Like historians can't do their job unless they're skeptical.
So I totally get where you're coming from.
I don't even disagree with you.
The only things I would say is that, first of all, a lot of the traditions didn't come from 150 years ago.
They came from 50 years after.
So there were Native people who met Lewis and Clark who then talked to a white person, and the white person wrote it down.
So a lot of the stuff I'm drawing on is not the historical game of telephone you're talking about.
The other thing is that Native cultures, because they were often primarily oral, they sort of select people with good memories who are good storytellers.
And so they're like – my great-great-great-grandfather –
probably wrote it in a journal and didn't remember it as well.
Whereas native people, you know, one historian when he got older would sort of train the next native historian.
So there is more of a tradition there that I think helps, uh, helps you better be able to access those things.
I think, I mean, different historians are going to classify it a different way.
But for the conversation we're having, you're absolutely right that every generation of what you get away, it becomes more tenuous and you need to have more skepticism.
I will say, like, I think I maybe put us on the wrong foot by talking about, like, grandparents' values, though.
Because, like, the better example is not what your grandparents or my grandparents' values were.
It'd be like if I was writing about somebody in France.
France's values are not my values.
Showing 1101–1120 of 1,260 · page 56 of 63
← Previous
Next →