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An American Secret

An American Secret

FromHidden Brain


An American Secret

FromHidden Brain

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Nov 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

All countries have national myths. The story of the first Thanksgiving, for example, evokes the warm glow of intercultural contact: European settlers, struggling to survive in the New World, and Native American tribes eager to help. As many of us learned in history class, this story leaves a lot out. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore a national secret: that from the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World until 1900, there were as many as five million Native American people enslaved. We'll learn about this history, and the psychological forces that kept it unexamined for so long.
Released:
Nov 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.