Axelbank Reports History and Today
By Evan Axelbank
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"Axelbank Reports History and Today: Conversations with America’s top non-fiction authors and why their books matter right now" approaches our past and present in a way that makes anyone want to listen. National-award winning TV news reporter Evan Axelbank interviews writers of history and current events to explore how America works and how it has been shaped by both the powerful and the powerless. In conversational and engaging fashion, listeners learn about the most important events, themes and figures in American history. This podcast shows why we have no choice but to understand where we have been, to know where we are going.
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#184: Jonathan Mahler - The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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#183: Iain MacGregor - "The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It"
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#182: James Bradley - "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician"
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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#181: J. Randy Taraborrelli - "JFK: Public, Private, Secret"
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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#180 - Fifth Anniversay Celebration with HW Brands - "A User's Guide to History"
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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#179: Russell Shorto - "Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America"
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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#178: Edda Fields-Black - "Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom During the Civil War"
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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#177: Rachel Cockerell - "Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land"
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May 13, 2025 |
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#176: Marcus Gadson - "Sedition: How America's Constitutional Order Emerged from Violent Crisis"
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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#175: Suzanne Cope - "Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis"
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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#174: Judith Giesberg - "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families"
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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#173: Clay Risen - "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America"
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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#172: Rebecca Brenner Graham - "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany"
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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#171: Ronald Gruner - “COVID Wars: America's Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom”
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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#170: Steve Gillon - "Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush"
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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#169: William Haldeman - "Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership that Transformed America"
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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#168: Elizabeth Block - “Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing”
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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#167: Evan Friss - "The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore"
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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#166: Heath Hardage Lee - "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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#165: David Greenberg - "John Lewis: A Life"
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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#164: Frank Guridy - "The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest and Play"
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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#163: Megan Gorman - "All The Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money"
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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#162: Kevin Baker - "The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City"
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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#161: Max Boot - "Reagan: His Life and Legend"
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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#160: Clara Bingham - "The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973"
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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#159: Corey Brettschneider - "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It"
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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#158: Francis Barry - "Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey Into the Heart of American Democracy"
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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#157: Lindsay Chervinsky - "Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic"
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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#156: Dr. Andrea Balis & Elizabeth Levy - "Witch Hunt: The Cold War, Joe McCarthy, and the Red Scare"
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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#155: Julie Satow - "When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion"
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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#154: Adam Higginbotham - "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space"
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May 21, 2024 |
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#153: Edward O'Keefe - "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt"
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May 07, 2024 |
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#152: Paul Sparrow - "Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words with Charles Lindbergh - And the Battle to Save Democracy"
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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#151: Gary Cross - "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal"
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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#150: Susan Tate Ankeny - "American Flygirl: The True Story of Hazel Ying Lee"
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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#149: James Swanson - "The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America"
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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#148: Jason Lantzer - "Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust"
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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#147: Harold Holzer - "Brought Forth on This Continent"
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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#146: David Head & Timothy Hemmis - "A Republic of Scoundrels"
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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#145: Martyn Whittock - "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America"
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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#144: John Reeves - "Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant"
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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#143: Matthew Algeo - "When Harry Met Pablo"
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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#142: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd - "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and Campus Wars"
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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#141: Doug Melville - "Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals"
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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#140: Drew McKevitt: "Gun Country"
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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#139: Richard Aldous - "The Dillon Era"
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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#138: Douglas Brunt - "The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel"
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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#137: Scott Shane - "Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland"
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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#136: J. Randy Taraborrelli - "Jackie: Public, Private, Secret"
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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#135: Adam Lazarus - "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams"
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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#134: Colin Dickey - "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy"
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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#133: Paul Moses - "The Italian Squad"
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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#132: Laurence Jurdem - "The Rough Rider and the Professor"
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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#131: Richard Norton Smith - "An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford"
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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#130: John Wood Sweet - "The Sewing Girl's Tale"
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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#129: Matthew Clavin - "Symbols of Freedom"
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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#128: Jean Pfaelzer - "California: A Slave State"
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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#127: Jonathan Eig - "King: A Life"
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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#126: Bob Kealing - "Good Day Sunshine State"
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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#125: Nathan Masters - "Crooked"
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May 23, 2023 |
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#124: Helene Stapinski & Bonnie Siegler - "The American Way"
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May 16, 2023 |
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#123: Alex Prud'homme - "Dinner with the President"
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May 09, 2023 |
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#122: Richard Goodrich - "Comet Madness"
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May 02, 2023 |
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#121: Christopher Gorham - "The Confidante"
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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#120: Ed Achorn - "The Lincoln Miracle"
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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#119: Mark Whitaker - "Saying it Loud"
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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#118: Gautam Mukunda - "Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World"
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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#117: Kate Andersen Brower - "Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon"
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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#116: Kelly Weill - "Off the Edge"
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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#115: Lindsay Chervinsky - Mourning the Presidents
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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#114: David Marchick - "The Peaceful Transfer of Power"
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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#113: Philip Bump - "The Aftermath"
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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#112: Stacy Schiff - "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams"
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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#111: Adam Mendelsohn - "Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War"
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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#110: Natalia Petrzela - "Fit Nation"
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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#109: Neal Gabler - "Against The Wind: Ted Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism"
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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#108: Keri Leigh Merritt - "After Life"
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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#107: Andrew Rice - "The Year that Broke America"
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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#106: Jeremi Suri - "Civil War by Other Means"
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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#105: Stephen Knott - "Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy"
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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#104: Bryan Appleyard - "The Car"
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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#103: Carole Adrienne - "Healing a Divided Nation"
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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#102: Paul Fischer - "The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures"
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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#101: Peter Baker - "The Divider"
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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#100: A Celebration of History
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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#99: Cody Keenan: "Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America"
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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#98: Kostya Kennedy - "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson"
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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#97: James Kirchick - "Secret City"
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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#96: Leah Sottile - "When the Moon Turns to Blood"
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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#95: Eric Jay Dolin - "Rebels at Sea"
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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#94: Justin Tinsley - "It Was All a Dream"
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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#93: Natalie Jacobson - "Natalie Jacobson Reporting"
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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#92: Daniel Levy - "Manhattan Phoenix"
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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#91: Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster - "Seen and Unseen"
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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#90: Mark Arsenault - "The Imposter's War"
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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#89: Philip Dray - "A Lynching at Port Jervis"
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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#88: A.J. Baime - "White Lies"
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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#87: Kate Clifford Larson - "Walk with Me"
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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#86: Edward Renehan - "Deliberate Evil"
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May 24, 2022 |
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#85: Richard Cohen - "Making History"
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May 17, 2022 |
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#84: J.D. Dickey - "The Republic of Violence"
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May 03, 2022 |
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#83: A.K. Fielding - "Rough Diamond"
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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#82: Jeffrey Frank - "The Trials of Harry S. Truman"
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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#81: Amanda Frost - "You Are Not American"
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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#80: William Hazelgrove - "One Hundred and Sixty Minutes"
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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#79: Neil Lanctot - "The Approaching Storm"
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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#78: Blake Scott Ball - "Charlie Brown's America"
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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#77: Meriel Schindler - "The Lost Cafe Schindler"
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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#76: Megan Kate Nelson - "Saving Yellowstone"
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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#75: Andrew Roberts - "The Last King of America"
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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#74: Warren Milteer - "Beyond Slavery's Shadow"
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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#73: Kyle Harper - "Plagues Upon the Earth"
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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#72: Michael Holzman - "Spies and Traitors"
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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#71: Leah Price - "What We Talk About When We Talk About Books"
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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#70: Peter Coleman - "The Way Out"
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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#69: Peter Bergen - "The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden"
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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#68: Amy Argetsinger - "There She Was"
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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#67: Patrick Lacroix - "JFK and the Politics of Faith"
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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#66: Hadassah Lieberman - "Hadassah: An American Story"
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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#65: Robert Levine - "The Failed Promise"
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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#64: Joseph J. Ellis - "The Cause"
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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#63: Rebecca DeWolf - "Gendered Citizenship"
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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#62: Joshua Scacco - "The Ubiquitous Presidency"
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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#61: Michael Bender - "Frankly, We Did Win This Election"
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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#60: Claude Clegg - "The Black President"
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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#59: Amy Russo - "Women of the White House"
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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#58: Robert Strauss - "John Marshall: The Final Founder"
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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#57: Ken Ellingwood - "First to Fall"
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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An Announcement - We’ll Be Back!
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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#56: Edward Achorn - "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey"
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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#55: Kate Masur - "Until Justice Be Done"
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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#54: Thomas Dyja: "New York, New York, New York"
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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#53: Heather Cox Richardson - "Letters From an American"
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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#52: Michael Burlingame - "An American Marriage"
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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#51: Serena Zabin - "The Boston Massacre"
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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#50: Zachary Schrag - "The Fires of Philadelphia"
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May 25, 2021 |
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#49: Vincent DiGirolamo - "Crying the News"
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May 18, 2021 |
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#48: Paul Kendrick - "Nine Days"
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May 11, 2021 |
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#47: Glenn Stout - "Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid"
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May 04, 2021 |
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#46: Annette Gordon-Reed - "On Juneteenth"
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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#45: Dov Waxman - "Trouble in the Tribe"
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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#44: Megan Kate Nelson - "The Three Cornered War"
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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#43: Jamal Greene - "How Rights Went Wrong"
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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#42: Jonathan Cohn - "The Ten Year War: Obamacare"
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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#41: David Head - "A Crisis of Peace"
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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#40: Julia Cooke - "Come Fly the World"
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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#39: Eric Rauchway - "Winter War"
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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#38: Cathryn Prince - "Queen of the Mountaineers"
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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#37: Kyle Riismandel - "Neighborhood of Fear"
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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#36: Wendy Lower - "The Ravine"
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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#35: William Sturkey - "Hattiesburg"
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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#34: Jennifer Armstrong - "Seinfeldia"
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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#33: Richard Bell - "Stolen"
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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#32: Kate Andersen Brower - "The Residence"
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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#31: Edward Achorn - "Every Drop of Blood"
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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#30: Matthew Algeo - "The President is a Sick Man
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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#29: Harold Holzer - "The Presidents vs. The Press"
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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#28: A'Lelia Bundles - "On Her Own Ground"
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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#27: Neal Gabler - "Catching the Wind"
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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#26: Catherine Grace Katz - "The Daughters of Yalta"
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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#25: Jonathan Alter - "His Very Best"
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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#24: Erika Lee - "America for Americans"
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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#23: David Maraniss - "Barack Obama: The Story"
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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#22: Wayne Coffey - "They Said It Couldn't Be Done"
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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#21: Matt Grossmann - Election Analysis
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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#20: Jeremi Suri - "The Impossible Presidency"
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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#19: A.J. Baime - "Dewey Defeats Truman"
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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#18: Special Episode - Ten Questions with Professor Buzzkill
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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#17: Lindsay Chervinsky - "The Cabinet"
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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#16: Stephen Knott - "The Lost Soul of the American Presidency"
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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#14: Steven Levingston - "Barack and Joe"
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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#15: James Poniewozik - "Audience of One"
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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#13: Benjamin Railton - "Of Thee I Sing"
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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#12: Regina Bradley - "Chronicling Stankonia"
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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#11: John Nixon - "Debriefing the President"
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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#10: Alexis Coe - "You Never Forget Your First"
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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#9: Koritha Mitchell - "From Slave Cabins to the White House"
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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#8: Julie Satow - "The Plaza"
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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#7: Robert Gellately - "Hitler's True Believers"
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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#6: Craig Pittman - "Oh, Florida!"
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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#5: Mayor Mike Signer - "Cry Havoc"
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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#4: Keri Leigh Merritt - "Masterless Men"
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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#3: Chris McGreal - "American Overdose"
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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#2: Sarah Milov - "The Cigarette"
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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#1: Kate Andersen Brower - "Team of Five"
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Jun 27, 2020 |