America: A History
By Liam Heffernan
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The number one American history podcast for anyone with an interest in the people and events that shaped the USA. Every week Liam Heffernan is joined by the world's foremost experts, from Pulitzer Prize winners like Heather Ann Thompson to legendary broadcaster Jon Sopel, to answer a different question about America.
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From the founding fathers to contemporary politics, we connect historical events to current issues, making American history accessible and relevant. Perfect for students, educators, and anyone passionate about understanding how America became the nation it is today.
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New episodes weekly featuring in-depth analysis, expert commentary, and compelling storytelling that makes history come alive.
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America: A History is a part of the Mercury Podcast Network, hosted by your resident US expert Liam Heffernan, in collaboration with the University of East Anglia.
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Support the show here: https://america-a-history.captivate.fm/support
For advertising and brand enquiries: liam@mercurypodcasts.com
For comments, suggestions, and opinions: america@podcastsbyliam.com
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IN THE MAKING: The Death of America's Late Night TV
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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What Would You Put in a US Time Capsule?
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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BONUS: Why You Should Watch Netflix's Katrina Docuseries
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump's UK Visit, Robert Redford, and the TikTok Deal
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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What is the Mayflower?
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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BONUS: Should the US Treasury Be Independent from the President?
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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What is the History of California?
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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BONUS: Houdini, London and the Unpickable Lock
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: Is America Heading Towards a Trump Dictatorship?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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What is the US Treasury?
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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BONUS: What Would You Do in a Gold Rush?
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Who is Harry Houdini?
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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BONUS: The Legacy of Emperor Norton
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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What Was the California Gold Rush?
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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BONUS: Why Didn't Nixon Destroy the Watergate Tapes?
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Who is the Emperor of the United States of America?
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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BONUS: Hoagies, Grammar Police, and Momphoria
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: Can Donald Trump Run for President in 2028?
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Why Did President Richard Nixon Resign?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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BONUS: Understanding the Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on Today's Immigration Debate
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: Comparing the Epstein Files to Nixon's Watergate Tapes
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Why Do Americans Speak Differently?
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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BONUS: Why Isn't Frances Perkins a Household Name?
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: Why We Must Protect Universities from Government Interference
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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BONUS: What Really Keeps the White House Running?
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: Can Elon Musk Disrupt the American Political Landscape?
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Who is Frances Perkins?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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BONUS: Gems of Vegas - Where to Find Fun Beyond the Bright Lights
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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What is the White House?
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Who Put the Fabulous in Las Vegas?
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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BONUS: What Would You Look Like as a Drag Queen?
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: They Don't Know What the F*ck They're Doing
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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How Has Ru Paul's Drag Race Changed America?
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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REPLAY: Why is Abortion So Controversial in America?
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May 20, 2025 |
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REPLAY: How Did the 50 States Become the 50 States
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Future of America: A History Podcast
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May 08, 2025 |
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BONUS: Pushback Against Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Who is J.P. Morgan?
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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BONUS: Is Social Media a Blessing or a Curse for Democracy?
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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How Has Immigration Shaped American Identity?
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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BONUS: The Rise of Fascism with Ece Temelkuran [FEED DROP via IF YOU WERE IN CHARGE]
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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How Has the Internet Shaped American Politics?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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BONUS: Is Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator or Just Another Racist?
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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What is the History of Education in America?
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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BONUS: The Abortion Paradox in America
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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What is Emancipation?
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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BONUS: Is Calvin Coolidge America's Quietest Overachiever?
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Why is Abortion So Controversial in America?
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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BONUS: Drill, Baby, Drill! The Impact of Trump's Agenda on Native Lands
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Who is Calvin Coolidge?
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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BONUS: Talk Until You Drop - The Wild World of Filibusters
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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What Were Native American Boarding Schools?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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BONUS: Lights, Cameras, Incarceration - Are We Simplifying Prison Life?
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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What is a Filibuster?
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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BONUS: Rosa Parks is More Than Just the Lady on the Bus
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Why Does America Have So Many Prisons?
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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BONUS: How American Media Distorts Perceptions of the Middle East
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Who is Rosa Parks?
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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BONUS: Will Bryan Cranston be the Next Freddy Krueger?
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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[EMERGENCY EPISODE] ITM: The Washington D.C. Plane Crash
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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What is America's Relationship to the Middle East?
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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BONUS: What Does MAGA Mean for the GOP?
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Who is Freddy Krueger?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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BONUS: What Does it Mean to be Vice President?
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Why Is American Politics So Divided?
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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BONUS: The Three-Fifths Compromise & Other Myths About the Constitutional Convention
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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IN THE MAKING: New Term, Same Old Donald Trump
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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What Does the Vice President Actually Do?
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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BONUS: Is the Star-Spangled Banner Actually British?
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Remembering Jimmy Carter
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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What is the War of 1812?
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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BONUS: The Christmas Goose & Our Favourite On-Screen Santa
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Who is Santa Claus?
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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BONUS: The Best Christmas Films of All Time
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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What Do Christmas Films Tell Us About America?
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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BONUS: Faith, Feminism, and the American South
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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What is the Bible Belt?
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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BONUS: How Growing Up in the Projects Shaped My Views on Poverty
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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BONUS: The Legacy of Sand Creek: Racism, War, and Cultural Extermination
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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What Was the Sand Creek Massacre?
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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BONUS: Is Country Music a 'Mongrel' Genre?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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ITM8: Donald Trump, Russia, and the Risk of World War Three
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Who Was Christopher Columbus?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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BONUS: The Debate That Altered the Course of American History
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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ITM7: What Does Trump's Comeback Mean for American Politics?
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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What Happens After a Presidential Election?
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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UEA Lasdun Lecture: Broken Democracy? Lessons from the American Election
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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ITM 6: Election Aftermath - Voices from America on Trump’s Victory
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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BONUS: Will Kamala Harris Break the Glass Ceiling?
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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ITM 5: Young Americans Share their Election Experiences of Voting from Abroad
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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How to Run a Democratic Election: Part II
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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How to Run a Democratic Election: Part I
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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BONUS: Baseball's Unique Place in American Culture
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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How Did Baseball Become an American Pastime?
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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BONUS: Exploring Mark Twain and the Challenges of Teaching Huck Finn
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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What is the History of Hawai'i?
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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What is Medicare?
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Why Is Huck Finn Banned?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Will America Ever Elect a Woman for President?
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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What Makes Country Music So American?
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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ITM 4: Debates, Dog Food, and Taylor Swift, Reaction to Harris vs Trump
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Who Cares About Presidential Debates?
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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What Are the Projects?
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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What Was the Constitutional Convention?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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ITM 3: Reaction to the Democratic National Convention
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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How is Barbie Still Relevant?
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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IN THE MAKING: Can Trump Stop the Harris Hype Train?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Why Does the President Only Serve Two Terms?
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Why Did the USA Drop Atomic Bombs on Japan?
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Why Do Americans Love Aliens?
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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IN THE MAKING: Biden Out, Harris In, and What This Means for Trump
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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When Did the USA Last Host the Olympics?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Was the Moon Landing a Hoax?
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Who is Harriet Tubman?
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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What is the Civil Rights Act?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Support Us on Patreon: New Episodes from July 2nd!
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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What is The Battle Hymn of the Republic?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Is America an Empire?
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Should Donald Trump Be Allowed to Run for President?
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Are the Oscars Still Relevant?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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How Did Jackie Kennedy Transform the White House?
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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What is a Primary and a Caucus?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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America: A History Podcast - A New Season is Coming
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Why Does Everyone Love Disney?
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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What is the War on Christmas?
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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How to Make a Hollywood Christmas Movie
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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What's the History of Christmas in America?
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Is the President Above the Law?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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What is Thanksgiving?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Could Friends BE Any Bigger?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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What Does Kindred Tell Us About Plantation Life?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Why Do Americans Love Halloween?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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BONUS: 'Twas the Night of All Hallows
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Who is Ed Gein?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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What Challenge Does Black Lives Matter Represent to America?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Who is Frederick Douglass?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Why is Children's Literature So Political?
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Who is Ron DeSantis?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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How Did Slavery Impact Cherokee Nation?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Who is Jimmy Carter?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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What is the American Dream?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Why Are Guns Still Legal?
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Civil Rights Movement?
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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What Makes the Super Bowl so Super?
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Who Are Native Americans?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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What is the Supreme Court?
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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How Did the 50 States Become the 50 States?
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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How Accurate is Forrest Gump?
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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How Are Presidents Elected?
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Why Did America Ban Slavery?
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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What is the US Constitution?
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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What is America?
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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America: A History Podcast Trailer
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Jun 04, 2023 |