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Prof. Greg Jackson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1389 total appearances

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History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

That's just too jarring.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

But I would like to point out for listeners that if you want to get a geographical take, you can do that.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

Just jump around on your episodes.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

World War I was so much easier.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

I know.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

I know.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

And so it also led us.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

I'm going to say she it's the wrong verb, but it works here.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

Yeah.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

Being able to do, first of all, one episode, which I very much enjoy.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

And I confess that it was one of the easier episodes to do because it was obviously I don't have sound design and the same rich level of detailed storytelling that I can do in the classroom.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

But that episode, I want to say that was 128 episodes.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

Forgive me if I misrecall a number, but being able to just lay out 99 years of causes building from Napoleon to the start of the war and then doing an episode where it was, hey, here are the highlights of World War I for the first 75% of the conflict, right?

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

It's the right thing to do when you're giving the U.S.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

experience in World War I. But yeah, it kind of feels like cheating.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

You get to fast forward basically to the end.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

And then you're just following this one expeditionary force in Europe that's barely hitting big numbers as the war ends, in a way, as important as that American effort was to changing the tide of the war.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

Whereas here, we're following two massive U.S.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

forces literally on opposite sides of the globe.

History That Doesn't Suck
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield

And I do want to be careful, or rather I'll say I've been very mindful, as I am in the classroom when I teach World War II,