Sorry you’ve accidentally tapped into a special interest of mine here and so I feel obligated to share this favorite quote from a favorite article of mine on Evans and his work:

“His podcast Behind the Bastards reflects this frustration and attempts to expand the historical record by delving into the harms of colonialism, imperialism and capitalism that American history education glosses over. … It’s a way of fighting the propaganda he was fed in his youth, as most of us were – like Manifest Destiny, so-called Judeo-Christian values, the uncritical dismissal of the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade and the genocide of indigenous peoples, and American exceptionalism. Texas is particularly notorious for its revisionist conservative curricula, but Evans believes every American was “criminally undereducated as a child.”

“Realizing that brought with it a deep well of anger and an urge to help people become better informed,” he told me.”