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The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the momen...
Rapid industrialization reshaped American life in the mid-19th century. But as corporations grew larger and more powerful, working condition...
People used to say "believe your eyes." But these days that's not so easy to do. What we scroll through every day blurs the line between ent...
Jack Johnson was the first world Black heavyweight champion, but winning the title was only part of the battle. Every time Johnson stepped i...
Starbase. Prospera. California Forever. Mars. From private cities to interstellar colonies, tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel...
As the United States expanded into a global superpower, it simultaneously strengthened its national borders and began to limit who could com...
When we call something "clickbait," we don't mean it as a compliment. But let's be real: we also click. It's hard to resist a spicy story, a...
In the late 1890s, the United States fought wars and backed independence movements around the world. By the time the fighting was over, the...
Like it or not, artificial intelligence is deeply rooted in our lives. Its invisible architecture stretches everywhere from dating apps to m...
The 14th Amendment guaranteed equal citizenship after the Civil War, but who exactly counted as a citizen? Today on the show, the story of W...
Gangsters, banksters, and politicians. Today on the show, how the hunt for Al Capone helped turn the IRS into one of the U.S. government's m...
What do bananas have to do with American history? On this week’s episode, how the sweet fruit became an American staple because of one entre...
Elon Musk. Donald Trump. Bill Gates. Sam Altman. Larry Ellison. Alex Karp. Jared Kushner. Mr. Beast. Jeffrey Epstein… Those are just a few o...
In the face of United States westward expansion in the 19th century, Native people fought to preserve their land and way of life. Today on t...
Cuba is on the brink of collapse – a scenario that 13 U.S. presidents have tried to engineer with no success. Today on the show, the making...
After the Civil War, while America was rebuilding itself, some Southerners made a different kind of move — they packed up and left. Today on...
Military confrontations, early-morning attacks, and digital warfare: the story of Iran and the U.S. from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the...
The story of Frederick Douglass’s fight for universal suffrage from the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow. To access bonus episodes and list...
Israel and Iran have been in almost constant conflict for nearly 50 years. Media tends to frame the violence as endemic, and inevitable — bu...
When the 14th amendment was ratified after the Civil War, it redefined what it meant to be an American. Today on the show, we bring you the...
What’s one thing people across the U.S. can agree on? Hint – it’s about money. Voters from all political parties overwhelmingly see unlimite...
When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the Civil War, he was not just changing the terms of pe...
The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown...
To this day, America continues to grapple with the legacy of slavery. On this week’s episode, we explore the creation of slave patrols, whic...
How Bad Bunny became the global voice of a generation in crisis — and what it means when resistance becomes profitable. Guests : Carina Del...
Freedom of the press. The right to assembly. And the right to free speech. The first amendment includes some of the most fundamental and mos...
In 1871, Ku Klux Klan violence in South Carolina got so bad that the governor sent a telegram to President Ulysses S. Grant warning that he...
Political rebellions, family feuds, and power grabs – the founding of the Supreme Court has about as much drama as a Hollywood movie. In thi...
James Baldwin believed that America has been lying to itself since its founding. A sharp, funny, and insightful commentator on Black identit...
The key to good communication is in the delivery – literally. This week on America in Pursuit, how the creation of the U.S. postal service t...
Editor's note: The United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran early Saturday, Feb. 28. For current coverage click here . For backgrou...
Forget guns and generals — the real victor of the Revolution had wings. This week on America in Pursuit the story of how a deadly swarm of m...
Ramtin talks with filmmaker Ken Burns about the revolution that made the U.S., and the surprising lessons he thinks it holds for us today. G...
The anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is just around the corner. Wanna get up to speed on the past 250 years? Check out our new...
On January 3rd, the U.S. military apprehended Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the U.S. for trial to face federal drug...
Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the future, and not...
As a kid, Ramtin fell in love with Frank Herbert's 1965 epic sci-fi novel, Dune. Today, he joins NPR's Books We’ve Loved crew, Andrew Limbon...
Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 19th-cen...
What if the real story of human history is a story itself? To kick off our winter book club, we talk with bestselling author Tamim Ansary ab...
Rund takes Ramtin on a tour of the enduring world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice... and our two hosts make a bet. Guests: John Mullan,...
What's better than holiday hot chocolate? If just thinking about it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, well – that’s by design. Chocolate's...
On today's show, a Thanksgiving story you might never have heard -- not about Pilgrims or Native people, but instead about a woman who, as c...
Rund Abdelfatah and Cristina Kim try to unravel the mystery of a Soviet scientist who was helping to spread the word about nuclear winter th...
How quickly can a government fall? Chile was once one of Latin America's oldest democracies, but that all changed in a matter of hours after...
On the surface, the story of Sudan’s war is about two generals vying for power. But it’s also about a vast web of international interests in...
Late last month, President Trump announced that the United States would be restarting nuclear weapons tests after a break of over 30 years....
The word "genocide" can seem like it’s everywhere right now: So it can be easy to forget that, fundamentally, it's a legal term that dates t...
Stuck in traffic? Glued to your desk chair? Folding yet another pile of your kids’ laundry? We GOT you!! Take a break, turn up the volume, a...
What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you: not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor....
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a plan to end fighting in Gaza, just over two years after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7th, 202...
With peace talks once again underway between Israel and Hamas, and hopes again growing for a permanent ceasefire, we’re bringing you our epi...