America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History”
David Remnick hosts British historians Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland, co-hosts of the popular podcast The Rest is History, to reassess the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence from a transatlantic perspective. They challenge the myth of American exceptionalism, ar
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