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The Weeks Murder Trial
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5 days ago
(Kristin) In 1800, Levi Weeks was accused of the murder of Elma Sands in New York City and throwing her body down a well. His defense team included Henry Livingston, Aaron Burr, and Alexander Hamilton. His is the first murder trial in the United States to have a recorded transcript … but there are still many unanswered questions as to what happened the night of December 22, 1799. Join Kristin as she looks at the most sensational trial of the new 19th century this week on Footnoting History!

Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Margaret Eaton and the Petticoat Affair
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
(Christine) In January of 1829, a widow named Margaret O'Neale Timberlake married John Eaton, a United States Senator with his star on the rise. Inspired by the suggestion of a Footnoting History listener, Christine uses this episode to dive into the details of her life, including the marriage that caused tempers to flare in President Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet and the lesser-discussed drama of her later years.

Saturday Feb 25, 2023
1288: A Moment in Norwich
Saturday Feb 25, 2023
Saturday Feb 25, 2023
(Samantha) Often it is hard to get any sense of what life was like in the past. This week, Sam will take you into the Norwich Leet Roll of 1288. This local court record that listed fines for everyday transgressions provides unique insights to the lived experience in a medieval city. Join her to consider the social realities that it exposes.

Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Footnoting History’s Favorite Historical Footnotes
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
(Christine, Kristin, Josh, Lucy, Samantha) It's our birthday! Footnoting History first launched in February of 2013. To celebrate turning ten, all of our current hosts (yes, all!) picked out their favorite historical footnotes to share. This episode contains anecdotes from a variety of centuries covering things like music, fruit, medieval royalty, and presidential inaugurations. We hope you'll enjoy them as much as we do.

Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Rebecca Gratz: Philanthropist, Educator… Romantic Heroine?
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
(Lucy) Rebecca Gratz helped to shape the vibrant cultural life of Philadelphia after the Revolutionary War. A second-generation immigrant, she supported artists and public institutions, and pioneered co-ed religious and cultural education for American Jewish children. She lived a remarkable life, and lived long enough to be photographed. She is also sometimes credited with being the real-life prototype for one of the nineteenth century’s most popular heroines, Sir Walter Scott’s Rebecca.

Saturday Jan 14, 2023
The Papal Fleet
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
(Josh) It’s POPE NAVY time! When Church leaders gathered at the Council of Vienne in 1311, King Henry II of Cyprus promised Pope Clement V a fleet of ships which would have the purpose of enforcing trade embargoes the papacy had enacted. These trade embargoes aimed to prevent Latin Christians from engaging in trade with Muslims and certain non-Latin Christians. While not built until later in the fourteenth century, the papal fleet appeared in many crusade proposals in the first few decades of that century. Come sail the heretical sea on this voyage of Footnoting History.

Saturday Dec 03, 2022
History for the Holidays II
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
(Christine, Josh, Kristin) The so-called holiday season that ends every year is filled with fascinating history. For our second year in a row, we are bringing you some holiday-themed history to help you say goodbye to 2022 in style.

Saturday Nov 19, 2022
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part II
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
(Christine, Kristin) Continuing our look at the career of one of medieval England's most famous knights, Christine and Kristin turn their eyes to William Marshal's older years, including his marriage, his continued association with kings, and that time he was named regent of the kingdom.

Saturday Nov 05, 2022
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part I
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
(Christine, Kristin) What did a man have to do in the Middle Ages to have many call him 'the greatest knight'? Join Christine and Kristin for their dive into the life of William Marshal, from his beginning as a younger son with few prospects to his place in a royal household.

Saturday Oct 22, 2022
History for Halloween IX
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
(Christine, Lucy, Kristin) From haunted houses to hysterical historical happenings, our team is here again with snippets of creepy stories from the past to celebrate Halloween.

Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Who Murdered Licoricia of Winchester?
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
(Kristin) It’s an unsolved mystery: Licoricia of Winchester, once the wealthiest woman in England, was found stabbed to death, with her maid, in 1277. Licoricia was a businessperson, whose clients included the king of England. She was a wife and a mother. She was also Jewish. The life, times, and circumstances of this extraordinary woman reveal a lot about the history of women and Jews in medieval England, and her death remains a puzzle to historians.

Saturday Sep 24, 2022
The Milne Family Part II
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
(Christine) Picking up where we left off in Part I, Christine looks at World War II through as experienced by the Milnes (both on the home front and in the military), explains how post-war life saw a dramatic change in the family's dynamics, and follows Christopher as he becomes a family man with his own career and interesting insights into topics like war, disability, and the book industry.

Saturday Sep 10, 2022
The Milne Family Part I
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
(Christine) In January, Christine brought you the story of that silly old bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Now, she’s back (thanks to listener requests!) with an in-depth look at the family that brought him to life: A.A. Milne, his wife, Daphne, and their son, Christopher.

Saturday Aug 27, 2022
The Oneida Community, Part II
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
(Josh) The Industrial Revolution of the 1830s provoked a considerable amount of anxiety in the United States. While some turned their attention to combatting the scourge of alcohol, others ran away from the new society created by industrialization. Looking for connection and a return to simpler times, many Americans joined groups that offered the perfect society. One such community, in Oneida, New York promised such a society, but as we'll continue to discover this week, they found a bit more than they may have bargained for.

Saturday Aug 13, 2022
The Oneida Community, Part I
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
Saturday Aug 13, 2022
(Josh) The Industrial Revolution of the 1830s provoked a considerable amount of anxiety in the United States. While some turned their attention to combatting the scourge of alcohol, others ran away from the new society created by industrialization. Looking for connection and a return to simpler times, many Americans joined groups that offered the perfect society. One such community, in Oneida, New York promised such a society, but as we'll discover, they found a bit more than they may have bargained for.

Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Jeffrey Hudson: England’s Forgotten Swashbuckler
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
Saturday Jul 30, 2022
(Lucy) Dancer, court favorite, and popular celebrity in late 17th-century England, Jeffrey Hudson was distinguished not chiefly by his achievements, but by his size. Born with dwarfism, Hudson was known as “Lord Minimus.” His diminutive stature and social ableism meant that his court career was dependent in some ways on his novelty. A favorite of Queen Henrietta Maria, Jeffrey Hudson was painted by Van Dyck, and frequently figured in court entertainments. This podcast looks at his life, and what it can tell us about disability in early modern England.

Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Maria Merian’s Metamorphosis
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
(Samantha) Maria Sibylla Merian was born in 1647 – a time when women were not expected to thrive as artists or scientists but she defied all odds to become both and in the process she illuminated the process of metamorphosis.

Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Listener Q&A
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
(Christine and Kristin) You asked, we answered! Join Footnoting History's producers for our first-ever episode entirely dedicated to answering your questions about everything and anything related to history and our show.

Saturday May 21, 2022
Godiva’s Not-So-Naked Ride
Saturday May 21, 2022
Saturday May 21, 2022
(Samantha) Today, the name Godiva evokes two things: fine chocolates, and a gorgeous blonde nude astride a horse. But in her own time Godgifu was best known as the wife of the earl of Mercia and as the generous benefactor of religious houses in Coventry and Lincolnshire. This episode will take you through what we know about this woman and will hint at the origins and growth of her legend through the middle ages and beyond.

Saturday May 07, 2022
Anna May Wong: International Star, Forgotten Icon
Saturday May 07, 2022
Saturday May 07, 2022
(Lucy) Ambitious, resilient, and internationally famous, Anna May Wong was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1930s. She had her first starring role in Hollywood before she was 20. She had also left Hollywood twice by the time she was 30, frustrated by the racism she faced as a Chinese-American woman. Throughout her career, she had to fight racism and censorship rules to get leading roles. But she also made international headlines for her performances on stage and screen. Though comparatively obscure today, Anna May Wong was a celebrity and style icon in a time when the options for women’s roles were being redefined in art and life.

Saturday Apr 23, 2022
The Gold Cure
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
(Josh) To know American History is to know the history of substance abuse. Whether alcohol, tobacco, or narcotics, Americans have sought the comfort of substances to ease the pains of the world and to "lubricate" life. And as long as there have been addicts in the United States, there have been others who claim to know the way out of addiction. At the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Leslie Keeley claimed to have invented a cure to solve the addiction crisis he saw in the US. In order to deliver this cure, Keeley opened at least one treatment center in every US state. His cure? Injecting gold into the veins of patients. Chase a dragon along a gilded path on this episode of Footnoting History.

Saturday Apr 09, 2022
The Brothers York, Part II
Saturday Apr 09, 2022
Saturday Apr 09, 2022
(Christine) When we last left the Brothers York, Edmund was dead for several years, while Edward had become King Edward IV of England, Richard was his staunch ally, and George was imprisoned after periods of rebellion and dramatic behavior. In this episode, Christine picks up the narrative and discusses George’s fate, the end of Edward IV’s reign, the rise and fall of Richard III, and the end of the Wars of the Roses.

Saturday Mar 26, 2022
The Brothers York, Part I
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
(Christine) Richard, Duke of York, and his wife Cecily Neville had four famous sons: Edward, Edmund, George, and Richard. In this episode and the next, Christine will take a look at the lives of the four brothers whose lives were consumed by a fight for the crown known as the Wars of the Roses, and sometimes succeeded in winning it.

Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Sarojini Naidu: Beyond the Golden Threshold
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
(Lucy) Poet and activist, scholar and politician, Sarojini Naidu inhabited many roles. The daughter of privilege, she enjoyed an elite education... and defied her family in marrying for love. Before women students could receive degrees, she studied at universities in both India and England, including at Girton College, Cambridge. A gifted poet, she was known as the "Nightingale of India," and wrote about topics including her own experience of chronic illness. She was involved in activism and politics, supporting women's suffrage in England, and working internationally for the cause of Indian independence from the 1920s onwards. This podcast examines both her extraordinary life and her distinctive literary voice.

Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Blue Jeans and the American Dream: The Story of Levi Strauss
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
(Samantha) When his father died in 1846, Levi Strauss was left with few opportunities as a Jewish youth in his native Bavaria and so he left with his mother and sisters for New York where he joined his brothers’ modest dry good business. A few years later he moved to San Francisco to run the west coast branch of the family firm. Levi went on to build up a successful business and to become a well-respected, millionaire philanthropist while popularizing a new form of clothing: blue jeans.

Saturday Feb 12, 2022
The History of Valentine’s Day
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
(Kristin) Ever wondered about the origins of Valentine’s Day and whether it was purely the invention of the greeting card industry? Join Kristin this week on Footnoting History to explore the development of our modern celebration of St. Valentine’s Day.

Saturday Jan 29, 2022
The Origins of the Salem Witch Trials
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
(Kristin) Think you know how the Salem Witch Trials started? You may be surprised. Join Kristin on this week’s episode of Footnoting History to explore the origins of the 1692 trials and find out what historians know … and what we only wish we knew.

Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Winnie-the-Pooh
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
(Christine) Winnie-the-Pooh has lived in the the hearts of people of all ages since the 1920s. Here, Christine traces the life of the famous bear (and his friends) from his origins in the family of author A.A. Milne and his acquisition by the Disney Company, all the way to his current place of residence.
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Saturday Dec 11, 2021
History for the Holidays
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
(Christine, Josh, Kristin) Join us as we say goodbye to 2021 with a series of historical anecdotes related to holidays, from Hanukkah to Christmas to New Year's.
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Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part II
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
Saturday Nov 27, 2021
(Elizabeth) How did Joel Chandler Harris's stories on Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Bear, and Br'er Fox go from beloved to problematic in the mid-twentieth century? In this episode, Elizabeth traces the story of how Joel Chandler Harris's work became Song of the South.
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Saturday Nov 13, 2021
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part I
Saturday Nov 13, 2021
Saturday Nov 13, 2021
(Elizabeth) By the end of the nineteenth century, Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus folktales were famous not only in the South, but throughout the United States. For much of the last century, however, they have been sharply critiqued for their presentation of antebellum plantation life. But who was Joel Chandler Harris? In this episode, Elizabeth dives into his story and the people from whom he learned these tales.
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Saturday Oct 30, 2021
History for Halloween VIII
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Oh my gosh, we're back again! Our annual tradition continues as this year we bring you yet another round of creepy and fantastic history for the scariest holiday of the year.
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Saturday Oct 16, 2021
Ivanhoe and the Modern Middle Ages
Saturday Oct 16, 2021
Saturday Oct 16, 2021
(Lucy) How did Ivanhoe become a wildly popular school text? And what happened to the interpretation of the text when it did? Across the Anglophone world, Scott’s medieval England became reified as a time and place of chivalric adventure, despite the novel’s often ironic tone and often pointed social criticisms. This episode examines how Sir Walter Scott’s imagined past became something very different as it was reinterpreted in popular culture, in sometimes sinister ways.
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Friday Oct 01, 2021
Ivanhoe and the Invention of Merry England
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
(Lucy) There are some things that almost any Hollywood film set in the Middle Ages can count on. It will be set in England. There will be a lot of forests. The Norman nobility will oppress the Saxon peasantry. Other things are optional but frequent. There may be a tournament or a siege. There may be a reference to the Crusades. Robin Hood may turn up. There may be a trial for witchcraft. Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe contains all of these things, and since its publication in 1819, this runaway bestseller has helped to shape Anglophone ideas of the Middle Ages.
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Friday Sep 17, 2021
Sicilian Vespers, Part II: The Massacre and the War of the Vespers
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
(Josh) Manfred of House Hohenstaufen is dead; Charles of Anjou, in the name of the papacy, has claimed Sicily and awaits coronation. Across the Ionian and Aegean Seas, Michael Palaeologus looks to the Latin West and waits. In Germany, Conradin, son of the last "rightful" king of Sicily, desires to seize his own claim to the throne. And the House of Aragon begins to stir and look towards Sicily with its own ambitions. This week on Footnoting History, the thrilling conclusion to our saga of the Sicilian Vespers which sees 4000 Frenchmen dead.
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Friday Sep 03, 2021
Sicilian Vespers, Part I: The Uprising
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
In the middle of the 13th Century, a violent uprising began on the island of Sicily in an attempt to oust the French King, Charles I of Anjou, that left approximately 13,000 people dead over the course of six weeks. This violent uprising also sparked a wider pan-Mediterranean war between the Spanish crown of Aragon, the Angevin Kingdom of Naples, the Byzantine Empire, and the Kingdom of France. In part one of this two-part series, Josh explores the causes of the uprising and the immediate aftermath. (Josh)
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Friday Aug 20, 2021
The Ottoman Kafes or the Princely Cage
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
(Elizabeth) Starting in the early 1600s, the Ottoman sultans switched from practicing fraticide to confinement as a means to preserve their rule from their grasping brothers. In this episode, Elizabeth examines how this treatment led a number of eventual sultans to have less than stellar qualifications and less than stellar legacies.
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Friday Aug 06, 2021
Mohenjo Daro: Living City, Mound of the Dead
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
(Lucy) Mohenjo Daro was a vast metropolis, with elaborate urban infrastructure… and largely mysterious urban organization. It was a center of the Indus Valley civilization. Located in what is now Pakistan and northwestern India, the cities of this civilization covered territory roughly the size of western Europe. Because its language still hasn’t been deciphered by modern scholars, there’s still a lot we don’t know about it. But this hasn’t stopped modern scholars, writers, politicians, and artists from engaging with and fantasizing about it. This episode looks at what history can tell us about the art and culture — and water management — of this ancient civilization.
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Friday Jul 23, 2021
The History of Tikka Masala
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
(Kristin) One of the most iconic Indian curries has its origins in British colonial India. But was this dish created by South Asian cooks, working in Britain, or was it created in India and then eagerly adopted by the West? Explore the history of this delicious dish with Kristin this week on Footnoting History!
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Friday Jul 09, 2021
Moe Berg, Baseball's Scholar and Spy
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
(Christine) Morris "Moe" Berg played for multiple Major League Baseball teams in the late 1920s and 1930s. Then, during World War II, he worked as a spy. In this episode, Christine discusses Berg's unusual life and career trajectory.
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Saturday May 29, 2021
Christopher Columbus and the Book of Prophecies
Saturday May 29, 2021
Saturday May 29, 2021
(Josh) Christopher Columbus inaugurated unprecedented global changed when he sailed from Europe to the Caribbean in 1492. But he brought with him expectations that his “discovery” of this new found route to “India” would see the beginning of the end of the world. He wrote about these expectations in his Book of Prophecies. Come behold the apocalypse on today’s Footnoting History.
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Friday May 14, 2021
Stede Bonnet, the Gentlemen Pirate
Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
(Kristin) What do you do when you’re bored with the genteel life of a plantation owner? You take to the seas and become friends with Blackbeard, of course. Follow the fascinating life – and peculiar choices – of Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate, this week on Footnoting History.
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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Empress, Strategist… Saint? Irene of Byzantium
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
(Lucy) Plucked from obscurity to become the wife of an emperor, Irene of Athens went on to become regent and empress in her own right. A ruthless strategist, an international diplomat, and an intelligent politician, she was also an influential participant in Byzantium’s early medieval controversy over icons, which some saw as threatening imperial power. This episode explores her life, reign, and historical reputation.
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Friday Apr 16, 2021
Florida: Frontier and Cracker History
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
(Elizabeth) Before the land boom and amusement parks, Florida was still seen as part of the US's frontier. In this episode, Elizabeth explores the state's history of white settlement and the term "Cracker".
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
Anne Neville and the Wars of the Roses
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
(Christine) In the 15th century, Anne Neville married twice, once to each side fighting in the Wars of the Roses. Her first husband was the Lancastrian heir and her second became a Yorkist king. In this episode, join Christine for a look at Anne’s life and the people in it, including her two husbands, and her sister Isabel.
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Friday Mar 19, 2021
Divorcing in Revolutionary France
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
(Christine) Revolutionary France Series: During France's long revolutionary period, a lot of things changed, including how you could end your marriage. In this episode, Christine takes a look at the introduction of divorce in France, including some of the ways you could (and couldn't) legally split from your spouse from the dawn of the French Revolution through the Napoleonic years and beyond.
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Friday Mar 05, 2021
The Martyrs of Thana
Friday Mar 05, 2021
Friday Mar 05, 2021
(Josh) In the early fourteenth century, four Franciscan friars set out for East Asia to preach the Gospel among the Mongols. In the city of Thana (modern Mumbai), however, they met their end after running afoul of the local administrators. We explore their story, a Latin Christian understanding of Asia, and more in this episode of Footnoting History.
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Friday Feb 19, 2021
The Forme of Cury
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
(Kristin) Ever wondered what would be on the menu in medieval England? Take a look with Kristin at one of the oldest English cookbooks, The Forme of Cury, and see what Richard II was having for dinner in this week’s episode of Footnoting History!
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Friday Feb 05, 2021
From Hwaet to the Ring Shout: Lorenzo Dow Turner
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
(Lucy) What does Beowulf have to do with the linguistics of African-American history? The same man studied them both… and his scholarship on medieval literature helped frame his search for linguistic communities. This podcast examines the career of Lorenzo Dow Turner, celebrated linguist known as the Father of Gullah Studies. Turner studied the language, ideas, and culture of Black island communities in the southeastern United States, and created recognition for that culture in so doing.
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Friday Jan 22, 2021
The Origins of American Eugenics
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
(Elizabeth) Starting in the late 1800s, forward thinking progressives embraced the idea that human evolution needed a little help in order to make sure that only the best (in their view) produced. Eventually, this idea became codified in legislation and even the Supreme Court of the United States supported it. Join Elizabeth as she examines the formulation of this idea and its impact.
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