How Much Do Americans Know About America?
When it comes to American history, Americans are often on shaky ground. Even politicians can never seem to get straight which text "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" appears in, let alone...
View ArticleFerguson: How America's Past Haunts the Nation's Present
Join Takeaway Host John Hockenberry today at 6:00 PM Eastern/3:00 PM Pacific for a Twitter chat on Ferguson, race, justice, and America. Follow @TheTakeaway and use the hashtag #BeyondFerguson.What...
View ArticleUs Now
Novelist, historian and author Kevin Baker looks back over the 400 years of United States history while discussing his new book, America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History.
View ArticleJohn Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horwitz talks about John Brown, the abolitionist whose raid on Harpers Ferry led to the Civil War. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War tells the true story of the...
View ArticleJohn Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horwitz talks about John Brown, the abolitionist whose raid on Harpers Ferry led to the Civil War. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War tells the true story of the...
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[Unedited] Tiya Miles with Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett's unedited interview with Tiya Miles, Chair and Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She spoke with her on November...
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Tiya Miles — Toward Living Memory
For Black History Month: a MacArthur "genius" who's unearthing an especially painful chapter of the American experience — the intersecting history of African-Americans and Native Americans, and the...
View ArticleThe History of Trains in America
Christian Wolmar and tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the American railroads, and argues that we should reclaim and celebrate our rail heritage. In The Great Railroad...
View ArticleThe Noir Forties
Historian Richard Lingeman examines the years between VJ Day and the beginning of the Korean War, describing how we went from hot war to Cold War, and from there to here. The Noir Forties is a...
View ArticleRay Suarez on Latinos in America
Ray Suarez, PBS Newshour senior correspondent, chronicles the history of Latinos and the ways they’ve helped shaped the nation. His book Latino Americans is the companion to the PBS miniseries, and it...
View ArticleAn Illustrated Contrarian U.S. History Book
Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, discusses his new graphic novel, A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History Of The United States, an...
View ArticleWhy 'Hamilton' Is Hotter than a $10 Bill
Before it was even completed, the buzz surrounding the musical Hamilton was already deafening. Now, after an extremely successful run at New York’s Public Theater, Hamilton has moved to Broadway, where...
View ArticleRedesigning the South: Divide and Conquer
At Studio 360, we've redesigned all sorts of things — big concepts like Mondays or Canada, and simple objects like the board game Monopoly. Our latest experiment is to come up with a new symbol for the...
View ArticleRedesigning the South: The War Room
At Studio 360, we've redesigned all sorts of things — big concepts like Mondays or Canada, and simple objects like the board game Monopoly. Our latest experiment is to come up with a new symbol for the...
View ArticleForced Sterilization, Imprisonment and American Eugenics
The American Eugenics movement of the 1920s profoundly influenced Nazi ideology. InImbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, author and former New York...
View ArticleHas Partisanship Actually Helped the Fight Against Inequality?
After the attacks in Orlando, Hillary Clinton called for "statesmanship, not partisanship." In The Politicians & the Egalitarians, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz argues that partisanship has...
View ArticleThe Democratic History of the U.S. Post Office
Winifred Gallagher gives a history of the US Postal Service, and explains how mail delivery has fueled political, cultural and economic change in America. InHow the Post Office Created America: A...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin Reports on 50 Years of Civil Rights
Longtime New Yorker staff writer and author Calvin Trillin got his start with the magazine in 1963 with an article about desegregation at the University of Georgia. He continued to cover the Civil...
View ArticleWeek 7: Globalism Vs. Nationalism
In his address to the joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump said, "My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America."On this episode of Indivisible,...
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Tiya Miles — Toward Living Memory
For Black History Month: a MacArthur "genius" who's unearthing an especially painful chapter of the American experience — the intersecting history of African-Americans and Native Americans, and the...
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