Power and Projections of Trauma in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Channel: AskHistorians
Date: 2020-09-16

The crush of disaster and upheaval disproportionately falls upon people in oppressed groups. This panel focuses on the extent to which records by those in power express the traumatic experiences of their subjects or of themselves.

The agony of disaster and upheaval is usually far more crushing to society’s oppressed people. But the “winners who write history,” whether they gained or lost from a particular event, are the ones who tell the story. This panel investigates whether the storytellers grant their subjects a voice--or steal the stories to fit their own agenda.
Learn more about this panel at: https://www.askhistorians.com/power-and-projections
Online Q&A with the panelists on AskHistorians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iu2g11/power_and_projections_of_trauma_in_the_19th_and/

Featured in this panel are:

"His Gallant Soul Had Fled: Death, Remembrance, and Race in Early America", by Adam Franti
"Dealing with Catastrophe: Medical Men and the Diseases of Women in 19th century Britain", by Katie Truax
"'A Den of Monsters': Women, Crime, and the City in 1930s China", by Stephanie Montgomery
"Young People in the Chinese Great Leap Forward and its Aftermath, 1958-1962", by Melissa Brzycki

Moderated by Lisa Baer-Tsarfati
Captioning courtesy of u/jbdyer and Dominic Webb

This panel is part of the AskHistorians 2020 Digital Conference. For more Conference content, please go to: https://www.askhistorians.com/2020-digital-conference