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    Contingent

    Jul 16, 2019 3 minutes
    BY MELISSA HART

    In June 2019, the new online history magazine Contingent put out a call for short essays that explore the influential blockbuster film Forrest Gump. “The 25th anniversary of Forrest Gump is nigh,” editors wrote on Twitter. “And for better or worse, it’s how a lot of us learned the late 20th-century US history we didn’t get to in class: the counterculture, Vietnam, Watergate, the AIDS epidemic.”

    Also in June, editors solicited “research postcards” – four to eight images or two-minute video/audio clips that document contributors’ field research locations, as a

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