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  1. Jan 2024
    1. because more “natural,”than that of the English.

      Something i never heard when learning history was The English calling Native Americans, "naturals" and did they refer to them because they lived more "naturally" or because they were the "natural" humans in this part of the world.

    2. good of the colony, helping to cement its good relations withthe Indians.

      So pretty much the movie showed how she loved her life with Rolfe, but now there saying that Pocahontas was just living day by day kind of like an empty shell just doing her own thing.

    3. only for the relationship ultimately to be ter-minated by the woman’s untimely death

      Many movies follow this sort of path with some differences. Literature has most often been seen in very old writings, interpreted in movies later on. One example, could be Romeo and Juliet. Two different sides that oppose one another and two fall in love

    1. But the main criteria for some platforms is often the ability tocommunicate well, not specialized training in historical research.

      It's weird how history can be such a complex topic that the complexity of it all can easily be overlooked at first glance into it.

    2. pointing out grave errors of factand context in Roberts’s interpretation

      That although they had the best-selling history books as non-historians, they had big errors in their books.

    1. he past had no way of anticipating our present world.

      So contingency is like the concept of time, kind of, or is it like predicting the future. Or like the concept if the world moves on a straight line? that everything that happens can't be predicted but will happen

    2. As historians of the American West and environmental historians, we oftenturn to maps to teach change over time.

      Historians interested in the change over time, and the concept of it, how something long ago can still be present like traditions. How although things change there is still resemblance from now compared to the past.

    3. They stand at the heart of the questions historians seek to answer

      I noticed this while listening to the podcast but historians aren't always looking for the answer necessarily but the questions that will guide them to the answer

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    1. Presentism – a tendency to impose present-day perspectives and preoccupationsupon the past

      Throughout history people have made these movies to recreate the past with the motive to make it appealing and to fill in the unknown blanks with their own ideas on how it went.

    2. In recent years, critics have grown far less tolerant of cinematic inaccuracies. Fre-quently, critics serve as the accuracy police

      Obviously throughout the past movies were simple until they weren't, they became more fiction like star wars for example, then they would branch based on history but so contorted that they weren't even history anymore.

    3. From the beginnings of motion pictures,moviemakers have turned to history for many of its most compelling stories

      they do it for the money and to sort of change history a bit to make it more appealing to their target audience usually being children.

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    1. During the mid- and late 1970s, the mood of American films shifted sharply. Unlikethe highly politicized films of the early part of the decade, the most popular films of thelate 1970s and early 1980s

      Now after these wars the world was again in a "peace" stage and that would also change the ways movies were made, from political non-sense to more excited and story oriented movies.

    2. In 1952, the Supreme Court reversed a 1915 decision and extended First Amend-ment protections of free speech to the movies.

      So they gave the theaters back their free speech and to make movies to show pretty much anything they wanted.

    3. Two decades later, 9 of every 10 homes had at least one TVset.

      obviously one main reason was many people had families and such to tend to, because before their was not really any other entertainment, but then the radio was made, and then the TV, people didn't have to always go out to watch a movie but could stay home instead.

    4. Familieswith babies tended to listen to the radio rather than go to the movies.

      Basically as the subtitle says the war on taking over the movie industry ended because of the lack of people to head into the movies, although still common to see them not as busy as they used to be.

    5. As a result,the moviegoing experience became standardized, with working-class and middle-classtheaters offering the same programs.

      The satisfaction and money that came with the industry became more standard because of peoples enjoyment now making it common and making motion picture a normal everyday thing.

    6. When the horse ran by,it tripped the shutters, producing 24 closely spaced pictures that proved Stanford’scontention

      Not too relevant but i thought it was funny that one of the first successful movie pictures was done to win a bet.

    7. o create the illusion of motion,magic lantern operators used multiple lanterns and mirrors to move the image.

      the production over the years of film and the origins of "movies'

    8. arouse consumer demand by suggesting that a product would contribute to theconsumer’s social and psychic well-being

      The shift after the 1890 was shifting to consumerism because it was making people money and giving people satisfaction

    9. for outdoor activities such as hiking, hunting, fishing, mountainclimbing, camping, and bicycling.

      Pretty much showing that the same type of ambition is there like before but its shifted into more like sports and activities.

    10. The 1890s witnessed a momentous change in American values

      Still talking about how the American values from before the 1890's shifted into more consumerism instead of the values beforehand

    11. Many worried that urban life was producing a generation ofpathetic, pampered, physically and morally enfeebled 98-pound weaklings – a farcry from the stalwart Americans who had tamed a continent.

      The Author points out that previously way before how Americans were strong well maintained humans now, the more relaxed era in Humans had changed them from well maintained to loose and weak.