Ben Franklin's ALMANACK (Revolutionary Rerun)
As we take a mid-summer-post-4th-of-July break, we are bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the archives about the Revolutionary...
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This Day in Esoteric Political History
We’re living in unprecedented times. Maybe. In this show, Jody Avirgan, Nicole Hemmer and Kellie Carter Jackson (and guests) take one moment, big or small, from that day in U.S. political hi...
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20 of 941 episodesA Show We Love: "The Rest Is History" on George Washington
We're so excited to present an episode of one of our favorite shows: The Rest Is History. In this episode, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook...
Mid-Year Mailbag w/ Jody, Niki, and Kellie
Coming off the 4th of July weekend, we check in on how the big America 250 celebrations went, how we marked the day, and answer some listene...
The Declaration of Independence (Live from Boston) w/ A.J. Jacobs
For this 4th of July weekend, our "50 Weeks That Shaped America" series lands in, no surprise, 1776 and the signing of the Declaration of In...
Books We'd Save From A Fire (Part 2) w/ Jon Meacham
We continue our 250-year look at the most significant works of history by looking at the rise of popular presidential biography, and the cor...
The Books That Shaped America w/ Jon Meacham (Part 1)
This week, as we head to the 4th of July weekend, we are bringing you a special two-part episode that provides a capstone for our month-long...
A Nation Of Readers: Poetry, Essay, Hanif and Javier
Hanif Abdurraqib and Javier Zamora both float between poetry, memoir, essay, spoken word and more -- finding the right form to explore their...
Stonewall: Does It Matter Who Threw The First Brick? (Part 2)
Our conversation about the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn continues with an account of how the tension ratcheted up that night -- and how t...
Stonewall: The Breaking Point (Part 1)
For the twenty-fifth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to June 1969, and New York City’s Greenwich Village. Police raids o...
A Nation Of Readers: The Gaps In History
A conversation about finding historical inspiration in all sorts of unique places, with Tiya Miles, author of " All That She Carried: The Jo...
Little Bighorn: Custer's Last Stand and Custer's Legend (Part 2)
In part two of our look at the Battle Of Little Bighorn, we discuss what actually went down in Custer's Last Stand, how it was more chaotic...
Little Bighorn: The U.S. Conquers The West (Part 1)
For the twenty-fourth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to the Montana Territory in the spring of 1876. General George Cus...
A Nation Of Readers: Nate DiMeo's Memory Palace
Nate DiMeo, host of "The Memory Palace" podcast and author of "The Memory Palace" book , on the small details that shape the work of history...
After Watergate: The Backslide (Part 2)
In part two of our conversation about the long shadow of Watergate, we discuss the ways in which Nixon tried to rehabilitate his image -- an...
After Watergate: Reforming Government (Part 1)
For the twenty-third installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to 1974. Of course we had to do an episode on Watergate as part of...
A Nation Of Readers: Isabel Wilkerson + Tara Westover
Isabel Wilkerson, author of " Caste " and " The Warmth of Other Suns " and Tara Westover, author of " Educated ," on the power of books and...
Mariel Boatlift: The Anti-Immigrant Playbook (Part 1)
We continue our look at the 1980 Cuban migrant crisis by discussing how it became a political nightmare for Jimmy Carter -- not to mention a...
Mariel Boatlift: Cuba In Crisis (Part 1)
For the twenty-second installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to Miami, Florida in the spring and summer of 1980. With the Cuban...
Reckoning With Racial Violence (Some Sunay Context)
This past week, we talked about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. For today's "Sunday Context" episode we jump a couple generations ahead to the s...
Tulsa Massacre: Erasure (Part 2)
We continue our conversation about the 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a depiction of the descruction over two days, and how just as...