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Democracy and Truth with Sophia Rosenfeld
Democracy and Truth with Sophia Rosenfeld
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Democracy and Truth: A Short History.
The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Future of Truth project.
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The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Future of Truth project.
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Released:
Mar 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Matthew Goodman, “The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York” (Basic Books, 2008): The modern newspaper is not as old as you think. Until the early nineteenth century, they were thin and expensive. It was only with the advent of the penny press circa 1830 that the truly mass broadsheet was born. by New Books in Journalism