Gone with the Wind (TRIH ep 204)
1939 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Sarah Churchwell about her book The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells. The conversation uses Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (and its 1939 film adaptation) as a lens to explore how the Lost Cause mythology shaped American memory from Reconstruction through the early 20th century. Churchwell details the novel and film's popular reception during the Great Depression and Second World War, the Atlanta pr...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)