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This week Eugene and Allison talk about a famous Kansas family and listener request, The Benders. Send us your recommendations and maybe we'll feature your request next!

Sources:

Library of Congress: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/10/bloody-benders/

Library of Congress: https://guides.loc.gov/homestead-act/introduction?loclr=blogser

Humanities Kansas: https://www.humanitieskansas.org/get-involved/kansas-stories/people/true-crime-in-kansas-the-mystery-of-the-benders

Kansas University Alumni: https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/bloody-benders-property/

Historical Marker Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=275329

Pittsburgh State: https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/439/

Harpers Weekly: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027796633&seq=477&q1=bender

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Kayla is back with us again this week to close out last week's episode on who gets to do history: the remembering, the forgetting, and the interpreting. Email us with your questions!

Book Mentions (cont. from Ep. 9 Part 1):

The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph Trouillot

The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

Podcast Recommendations:

The Intelligence by The Economist titled The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers, August 9, 2025

Music:

Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC

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This week, Allison and Eugene are joined by Kayla Nelson, a public historian. She shares with us the details of who gets to do the remembering, forgetting, and interpreting of history and how those decisions are inherently non-neutral and often politically motivated.

Book Mentions:

The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph Trouillot

The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

Podcast Recommendations:

The Intelligence by The Economist titled The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers, August 9, 2025

Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC