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Bill Black is a historian whose project Contingent Magazine (begun with previous Nostalgia Trap guest Erin Bartram) this month features a 25th anniversary retrospective roundtable on the film Forrest Gump. In this conversation, Black explains how the film\u2019s particular take on boomer generation \u201cgreatest hits\u201d hides the film\u2019s deeper engagement with the politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and helps frame how some of Gump\u2019s key characters and scenes often dangerously distort our view of American history.