History doesn鈥檛 repeat itself, but we鈥檝e been down this road before. In this set of videos, filmed the week before and the day after the 2020 election, historian Margaret O鈥橫ara connects the dots of the past to the pixels of the present. From the beginnings of the tech industry to modern day politics, understand how history can work in your own life and how an interdisciplinary perspective is a form of superpower.
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Connecting dots of the past to pixels of the present
Presented to students on November 3, 2020.
A Post-Election Conversation with Margaret O鈥橫ara
Presented to students on November 5, 2020.
Featuring听Margaret O鈥橫ara
Margaret O鈥橫ara is the Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the 乱伦社区 and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, the history of U.S. politics, and the connections between the two.
Photo of Margaret O’Mara by Jim Garner.
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