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Who ‘Makes It’ into History? Survival Bias | The Diatribe (2019x27)

Air date: Jul 30, 2019

The phrase "making it into history" comes up a lot. While there are some decidedly awful ideas that supports, there is a deeper issue that people who say "history is written by the victors" are trying to get at in their naive way - which is Survivor Bias. Videos referenced: 3:05 - Agency in History: https://youtu.be/87ILdLBZE4o 5:30 - EP Thompson: https://youtu.be/Igb9f_cSRBk 11:50 - Pragmatism: https://youtu.be/fqPAnFfPJuk 13:55 - Orthodoxy, Revisionism, and Postrevisionism: https://youtu.be/xQGs3eYxGRw ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Peter Gunn, History and Cultural Theory (Oxon, UK: Pearson Education Limited, 2006). https://amzn.to/2uWmK9F Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, eds., A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2002). https://amzn.to/2LhuzSf The works of Antonio Gramsci, many written as letters from prison: https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/index.htm Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, reprinting (1987; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1968). Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988). https://amzn.to/2D3NM46 ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Hashtags: #history #subaltern #postcolonialism