Introducing: It Was Said Season 2

History is vast and complex, but it can be better understood by looking at critical moments in which a single person approached a crowd with something important to say.

James Baldwin said, people are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

Dr.

Maya Angelou said, history, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived.

However, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

It's true for our personal lives, for our family systems, and for our nation.

I am committed to knowing history not because of what it reveals from the past, but what it reveals about me, my family, my nation, and how it is a tool to help us lead to healing.

And I'm here to share a preview of the new season of It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for best podcast series.

Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author-historian John Meacham, It Was Said season two will focus on 10 generation-defining speeches, including those from Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass.

In every episode, Meacham, along with other historians, authors, and journalists, offers expert insight and analysis into the origins, the orator, and the historical context of these speeches, helping tell the stories of visionary leaders and disciplined communicators whose words continue to resonate today.

Listen to It Was Said, a creation and production of Peabody Award-nominated C-13 originals in association with the History Channel.

Available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France.

The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.

When visionary leaders capture the imagination of a nation.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

When disciplined communicators speak truth to power.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.

If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward.

The course of history can be altered.

Humanity has been shaped by moments in which one person approached a crowd with something important to say.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn,

I have only one thing to say.

You turn if you want to.

The ladies not for turning.

I'm John Meacham, and this is It Was Said, Season 2, a creation and production of C-13 Originals, a Cadence 13 studio, in association with the History Channel.

Join us as we take you through another 10 historic and timeless speeches which still resonate today and will for generations to come.

December 7th,

1941.

A date which will live in infamy.

It was said season two: 10 moments in time, immortalized by the spoken word.

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