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The Truth about the Americas in 1491 with Charles C. Mann

Factually! with Adam Conover

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What I Learned in Childhood

The Eastern forest was so big and dense that a squirrel could jump from Cape Cod to the Mississippi, you know, just on the branches of the trees. And in fact, people didn't live there like that. There was huge patches of big cleared land. But when the native people were killed off by disease, mistreatment and all the other things that we talked about, the forest grew back.

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