"Contextualizing" Evil - Jeffrey Burds

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Jeffrey Burds, professor of History at Northeastern University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves' Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Burds examines the "microhistory" of the ev...

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