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Historiography and the Bombing
Historian and fellow investigator Eric Bowsfield joins Heather to talk about historiography. We discuss how the discipline gives us the tools to study the Marathon Bombing and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s court case as a historical event. We also share our own firsthand knowledge of living through the bombing and the lockdown of Boston four days later, demonstrating how we ourselves are primary sources of these moments in history.
Episode Extras
Heather’s interview on The Young Jurks
More information on:
Historiography
Bias
Confirmation bias
Historian’s fallacy
Presentism
Moral Relativism
Hindsight bias
Hanlon’s razor
Occam’s razor
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