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A Nation Of Readers: Isabel Wilkerson + Tara Westover
Isabel Wilkerson, author of "Caste" and "The Warmth of Other Suns" and Tara Westover, author of "Educated," on the power of books and history to expa…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Mariel Boatlift: The Anti-Immigrant Playbook (Part 1)
We continue our look at the 1980 Cuban migrant crisis by discussing how it became a political nightmare for Jimmy Carter -- not to mention a young Bi…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Mariel Boatlift: Cuba In Crisis (Part 1)
For the twenty-second installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to Miami, Florida in the spring and summer of 1980. With the Cuban economy …
4 weeks ago
Reckoning With Racial Violence (Some Sunay Context)
This past week, we talked about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. For today's "Sunday Context" episode we jump a couple generations ahead to the summer of …
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Tulsa Massacre: Erasure (Part 2)
We continue our conversation about the 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a depiction of the descruction over two days, and how just as quickly t…
1 month ago
Tulsa Massacre: Life On Black Wall Street (Part 1)
For the twenty-first installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, and trace two days of violence and terror by the…
1 month ago
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Memorial Day: Remembering Vietnam [Some Sunday Context]
For this week's "Sunday Context" episode we bring you an episode from the archives about the fight to create a Vietnam War memorial, and how we remem…
1 month ago
Golden Spike: What The Railroads Built and Destroyed (Part Two)
We continue our conversation about the transcontinental railroad with a look at the impact of a connected America -- and what it means to be promised…
1 month, 1 week ago
Golden Spike: The Race West (Part One)
For the twentieth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we look at the moment that East and West were connected by railroad. Throughout the 1…
1 month, 1 week ago
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Archie Bunker Gives Voice To The Silent Majortiy [Some Sunday Context]
This past week we discussed the spring of 1970, when the massacre at Kent State and the Hardhat Riots in NYC showed how the "silent majority" was asc…
1 month, 1 week ago