This was such a fantastic and fascinating Keynote. I was lucky enough to be in the audience and silly me figured I might be able to listen while working on some other things. Instead I ended up shoving everything off to the side and leaning right up to the screen to listen to every word.

AskHistorians in a nutshell really.

Alex Wellerstein, aka /u/restricteddata, delivered the keynote address for the AskHistorians 2020 Digital Conference which we are pleased to now be able to release the recording of!

Be sure to check out other conference content you may have missed though

• Indigenous Histories Disrupting Yours: Sovereignties, History, and Power Panel Q&A
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse: Imagining Mass Destruction Panel Q&A
• Pick Your Poison: Climate, Disease, and Human Disaster from the Middle Ages to Today Panel Q&A
• Sinners, Saints, and Spies: Historical Women and Cultural Propaganda Panel Q&A
• Power and Projections of Trauma in the 19th and 20th Centuries Panel Q&A
• Being the Change That Others Don’t Want: Asserting and Resisting Racial Hierarchies in Midcentury North America Q&A
• In Whose Trenches? Violence, Voice, and the Experience of War from Below Panel Q&A
• Building the Nation, Dreaming of War: Nation-Building Through Mythologies of Conflict Panel Q&A

What an insightful and interesting address: it's truly a credit to this site that this came out of this subreddit's effort.