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<p>"The history we learned was a lie, and it was a deliberate lie, one that had been debunked in 1900 by scholars at Yale and in Chicago. But the people of the Pacific Northwest, despite all evidence to the contrary, had clung to a story that was baloney. That's what hooked me."</p>
<p>"Politics isn’t some rigid system we’re trapped under. It’s us. It’s only as good as we are."</p>
<p>A documentarian discusses his efforts to highlight the forgotten contributions of former Interior Secretary to the environmental and conservation movements, a mission that touches on deeper questions about how politics and the economy should serve quality of life over accumulation. </p>
<p>The University of Washington professor of southeast Asian history talks about the recent regime of Duterte in the context of the colonial history of the Philippines, and why a history of strongman politicians makes normalizing violence easy. </p>
<p>Elizabeth Becker discusses her triple biography of Frances FitzGerald, Catherine Leroy and Kate Webb, three women journalists who broke barriers to cover the war in Vietnam, and Becker's own experiences as a journalist in Vietnam and Cambodia. </p>