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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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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...
Tulsa Massacre: Life On Black Wall Street (Part 1)
For the twenty-first installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, and trace two days of violence and terr...
Memorial Day: Remembering Vietnam [Some Sunday Context]
For this week's "Sunday Context" episode we bring you an episode from the archives about the fight to create a Vietnam War memorial, and how...
Golden Spike: What The Railroads Built and Destroyed (Part Two)
We continue our conversation about the transcontinental railroad with a look at the impact of a connected America -- and what it means to be...
Golden Spike: The Race West (Part One)
For the twentieth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we look at the moment that East and West were connected by railroad. Through...
Archie Bunker Gives Voice To The Silent Majortiy [Some Sunday Context]
This past week we discussed the spring of 1970, when the massacre at Kent State and the Hardhat Riots in NYC showed how the "silent majority...
Silent Majority: Nixon and the Hardhat Riots (Part Two)
Our conversation about the "silent majority" continues with a look at the so-called Hard Hat Riots in New York City, and how the idea of a c...
Silent Majority: The Kent State Massacre (Part One)
For the nineteenth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we talk about a fateful week in the spring of 1970, when the anti-Vietnam m...
The School Strike That Started To Dismantle "Separate but Equal" [Some Sunday Context]
This past week we discussed the Plessy v Ferguson case, which helped open the door to the Jim Crow era in the American South. Today, a story...
Separate But Equal: The Rise of Jim Crow (Part 2)
Our conversation about Plessy vs Ferguson continues with a look at the world that the ruling helped usher in: Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, gra...