US EditionWhy the people who actually drive history aren't in the textbooks
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Why the people who actually drive history aren't in the textbooks
History is often told through the stories of individuals. We have movies about kings, YouTube videos about generals, books about inventors, and talks about revolutionaries. These are the Great Men (almost always men) whose names headline the textbooks: Napoleon, Darwin, Gandhi, Churchill. This “Great Man” model of history owes itself to the 17th-century English writer Thomas Carlyle, and it’s a seductive narrative — simple, dramatic, and easy to…
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