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3 unusual facts about History from Below


Delta Spirit

Their song "Salt in the Wound" from their 2008 album History from Below appeared in the Grey's Anatomy episode "With You I'm Born Again".

History from Below

The last song on the album, "Ballad of Vitaly," was inspired by the story of Vitaly Kaloyev.

History from Below is the follow-up album to 2008's critically acclaimed Ode to Sunshine by San Diego's Delta Spirit.


Georges Lefebvre

He coined the term "history from below", which was later popularised by the British Marxist Historians, and the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789.

Vitaly Kaloyev

American rock band Delta Spirit recorded the song Ballad of Vitaly, featured as the closing track on their 2010 album History From Below, chronicling Kaloyev's story.


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Morris Slavin

Slavin taught for many years at Youngstown State University and his books made a significant contribution to the understanding of the French Revolution in the "history from below" style established by Albert Soboul.