Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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As every historian knows, an unrelated news article or curious archival folder can overtake our minds while researching. Eight hours later, pulse pounding, eyes ablaze with zealotry, we find ourselves "down the rabbit hole" and utterly lost. In "When Distraction Leads to Obsession and a Historian Gets Lost," follow historian Scott Meredith as he loses his senses untangling "Fletcher and Porter: The True Story of the Song "Don't Fence Me In."

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