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Your 15-Minute Guide to 250 Years | America in Pursuit
The anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is just around the corner. Wanna get up to speed on the past 250 years? Check out our new miniseri…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
El Libertador (Venezuela update)
On January 3rd, the U.S. military apprehended Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the U.S. for trial to face federal drug traffick…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Winter Book Club: Octavia Butler’s Visionary Fiction
Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the future, and not only as o…
5 months ago
Winter Book Club: Why You'll Love 'Dune'
As a kid, Ramtin fell in love with Frank Herbert's 1965 epic sci-fi novel, Dune. Today, he joins NPR's Books We’ve Loved crew, Andrew Limbong and B.A…
5 months ago
Winter Book Club: A Christmas Carol
Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 19th-century Lond…
5 months, 1 week ago
Winter Book Club: The Story of Us?
What if the real story of human history is a story itself? To kick off our winter book club, we talk with bestselling author Tamim Ansary about his b…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Pride, Prejudice, and Peer Pressure
Rund takes Ramtin on a tour of the enduring world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice... and our two hosts make a bet.
Guests:
John Mullan, professor …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Bitter History of Chocolate
What's better than holiday hot chocolate? If just thinking about it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, well – that’s by design. Chocolate's big histo…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Mother of Thanksgiving
On today's show, a Thanksgiving story you might never have heard -- not about Pilgrims or Native people, but instead about a woman who, as civil war …
6 months ago
What Happened to Vladimir Alexandrov?
Rund Abdelfatah and Cristina Kim try to unravel the mystery of a Soviet scientist who was helping to spread the word about nuclear winter theory—unti…
6 months, 1 week ago