podcasts

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• SOURCE: Professor Buzzkill History Podcast
  1/23/2023
  

  David A. Bell Discusses "American Exceptionalism" with the Professor Buzzkill Podcast

  "Dr. David Bell relates the long and strange history of the concept of “American Exceptionalism,” analyzing various interpretations of the phrase from the Puritan John Winthrop to President (and non-Puritan) Donald Trump."

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• SOURCE: News Talk
  9/25/2022
  

  British and Irish Historians Discuss Oliver Cromwell

  Patrick Geoghegan talks all things Cromwell with a panel of historians. 

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• SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
  10/25/2021
  

  John Ganz and Lauren Stokes on the American Right's Hungary Hearts

  Historian Lauren Stokes helps to explain the American right's embrace of Viktor Orban and the right-wing regime in Hungary. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  8/26/2021
  

  Podcast: Jelani Cobb on the Missed Lessons of the Kerner Commission

  Cobb has edited a new annotated report of the Kerner Commission's findings, and argues that the report's unheeded recommendations are more important today than ever. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/15/2021
  

  The Freeing of the American Mind

  Louis Menand joins Ezra Klein's podcast to discuss his new book and the intellectual history of the cold war era. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/19/2021
  

  'The Underground Railroad' and History: Eric Foner

  Eric Foner discusses the historical background of the new series based on Colson Whitehead's novel. 

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• SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
  5/17/2021
  

  The Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)

  Matt and Sam talk to historian Joshua Tait about the intellectual origins of conservatives'—and the modern GOP's—hostility to majoritarian democracy.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/17/2021
  

  Joe Biden Wants to Be Like Roosevelt. But Can He Get the Votes?

  Jill Lepore and Jelani Cobb join New Yorker Editor David Remnick's podcast to discuss the prospects for an ambitious program of spending and public works. As Lepore says, “You can’t put F.D.R. in Dr. Who’s phone booth and bring him to 2021."

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  5/10/2021
  

  Peace Was on the Floor in 1916-17, but Wilson Failed to Pick it Up

  by Burt Cohen

  Burt Cohen discusses Philip Zelikow's book which argues that diplomatic failures by the great powers extended the first world war by two years and contributed to the catastrophes of fascism and Stalinism. 

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• SOURCE: Money on the Left Podcast
  5/1/2021
  

  Remaking Radicalism with Dan Berger and Emily M. Hobson

  Historians Dan Berger and Emily Hobson discuss their new primary source anthology on grassroots social movements in the last quarter of the 20th century. 

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• SOURCE: Madison.com
  4/17/2021
  

  Two Madison Profs Make 'Collegeland' Podcast About University Life

  Historians Nan Enstad and Lisa Levenstein have produced a podcast that tells the stories of college campuses as places of learning, work, and socialization, seeking to counter both right-wing demonization of campus liberalism and the rose-colored view of university PR. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg Equality
  3/11/2021
  

  My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost

  by Jacqueline Simmons

  A host of the Pay Check podcast introduces a new season that will examine her family's history of landholding in Texas as a lens on the historical roots of the black-white wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  2/10/2021
  

  Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

  Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young are the producers of the "Past/Present" podcast. Their new project "Welcome to Your Fantasy" looks at feminism and the sexual revolution through the cultural phenomenon of the Chippendales Dancers. Claire Potter interviews the trio about it.

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  12/7/2020
  

  How Rocky Presidential Transitions Have Shaped American History

  Beverly Gage of Yale University explains how presidential transitions have tested the nation in the past. 

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• SOURCE: Esoteric Political History
  11/3/2020
  

  When Black Voters Went Blue

  Leah Wright Rigeur discusses the process by which Black voters shifted from loyal Republicans to Democrats. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/12/2020
  

  How We Lie to Ourselves About History

  At its best, the "You're Wrong About" podcast transcends fact-checking and debunking to ask why so many of the stories we know are wrong, and why they persist nevertheless. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10/8/2020
  

  The Outsized Role of the President in Race Relations

  Lindsay Chervinsky announces a new collaborative podast "The Past, The Promise, The Presidency" to offer an accessible understanding of racism and the presidency.

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  10/2/2020
  

  Ben Railton Joins "Keeping Democracy Alive" to Talk "Patriotic Education"

  American Studies scholar Ben Railton discusses his upcoming book "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism" and the political hijacking of the patriotic ideal. 

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• SOURCE: Merritocracy
  10/5/2020
  

  Dr. Heather Cox Richardson: The 2020 Election and Beyond

  Heather Cox Richardson joins host Keri Leigh Merritt to discuss the history behind the 2020 election, and more. 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  

  “Nationalism Will Run Roughshod Over Democracy”: What Can Nazi Germany Tell Us About Trump’s GOP? (Podcast)

  As Trump’s fearmongering, demonization, and threats of violence have invited comparisons to Hitler’s rise, historian Peter Fritzsche separates fact from exaggeration on "The Hive" podcast.