When ancient Rome mirrors modern anxiety, history becomes urgently personal.
Historian Caroline Winterer examines why Americans so often measure themselves against Rome, tracing ideas of rise, decline, civic virtue, empire, and renewal. Drawing on Roman history and the ways later generations interpreted it, this talk sharpens how we read national crisis and change. Sign up to watch a timely perspective that turns a familiar comparison into a deeper historical argument.
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