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Conversations: A Road Trip Through U.S. History, w/ Beverly Gage
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In this episode of the History Shorts Conversation Series, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage joins us to discuss her new book This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History.Yale professor Gage spent years traveling the country, visiting museums, battlefields, roadside attractions, living-history sites, a nuclear silo, and even a sex commune — all to understand how Americans actually encounter and argue about their past.
Timed for the nation's upcoming 250th anniversary, the book explores 13 key places that reveal our greatest triumphs, deepest contradictions, and ongoing battles over memory, identity, and democracy. From Revolutionary Philadelphia to Virginia plantations, the Burned-Over District, the atomic Southwest, and Disneyland, Gage uncovers how history is presented, sanitized, celebrated, or contested at sites where everyday people meet the past.
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