On Experience, Memory, Evidence: Joan Scott & Allan Megill

Can we trust our own experience of the world? How does our experience fit into a wider narrative? I look at how experience, memory and evidence become more problematic than we might imagine, through Joan Scott s influential essay, the Evidence of Experience, and Alan Megill s Historical Knowledge, Historical Error. Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Sources: Alan Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice Lynn Hunt, The Evidence of Experience Proust, In Search of Lost Time https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/30/world/acquittal-jerusalem-israel-court-sets-demjanjuk-free-but-he-now-without-country.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Credits: Stock footage provided by Videvo, downloaded from https://www.videvo.net John Demjanjuk Photo (Israel Government Press Office): https://www.flickr.com/photos/government_press_office/6470376309/ (Creative Commons 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Make America Great Again Hat, https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/27149010964 (Creative Commons 2.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/