ABOUT THIS EPISODE
No one thinks they’re the bad guy. No one wakes up and says, ‘Today I’ll be on the wrong side of history.’
So here’s the question: if nobody thinks they’re the villain… what were they thinking?
The Wrong Side of History is a show about understanding history’s bad guys the way they understood themselves: what they feared, what they valued, and why their worldview made sense to them at the time.
You probably won’t agree with them. But you may start to see that the stories we’ve known of heroes and villains, saints and bigots, reason and ignorance, are often too simple.
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