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Lessons from Lincoln on effective politics

October 4, 2023 History, Politics, Think, Upcoming

Steve Inskeep, cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how Lincoln sought to build a social revolution and hold the nation together.

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Earth has warmed and cooled before. So what’s different now?

October 3, 2023 Environment, Global Issues, History, Science and Technology, Think, Upcoming

University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Mann joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the precarity of human evolution and how previous changes in temperatures have affected life on the planet.

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Should presidents be our lone nuclear decision makers?

September 26, 2023 Current Events, Global Issues, History, Science and Technology, Think

Science writer Sarah Scoles joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how psychologists want to study what factors into that high-stakes thinking.

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There’s more to American history than what white people did

September 19, 2023 History, Race/Identity, Think

Michael Harriot, a columnist at theGrio.com, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss a new way to look at historical narratives – one that reworks the American story to include the voices most often overlooked.

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The grief of institutionalizing a child

September 18, 2023 Health, History, Mental Health, Think

Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the story of her aunt Adele, who was sent away at age 6 because of intellectual disabilities.

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What’s a fishwife, anyway? A history of words about women

September 15, 2023 Education, History, Language, Literature, Race/Identity, Think

Jenni Nuttall teaches medieval literature at the University of Oxford, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how words have influenced how we view female roles in society.

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Meet the women who helped win WWII

September 12, 2023 History, Think

Lena S. Andrews, a military analyst for the CIA, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the women who fought and died for this country in World War II.

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The lasting impact of Pres. Garfield

August 30, 2023 History, Politics

Historian C.W. Goodyear joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the tumultuous political landscape that catapulted Garfield, why he was considered a progressive by the public, and how today’s schisms are not unlike the discord of late-1800s America.

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In a YA novel, a Black girl navigates Jim Crow

August 29, 2023 History, Literature

Lesa Cline-Ransome, author of the YA novel “For Lamb,” joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about the story, which follows a girl named Lamb navigating the friendships and dangers of the Jim Crow South for a young Black girl.

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The enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh

August 28, 2023 Current Events, History, Politics

Author and journalist Jeffrey Toobin joins guest host John McCaa to discuss McVeigh’s right-wing extremism and how it connects to the January 6 insurrection.

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For old-school conspiracy theorists, QAnon crossed a line

August 18, 2023 Culture, Economics, Global Issues, History, Politics

Conspiracy theory researcher Annie Kelly discusses how old-school skeptics raised on late-night call-in radio fear modern day conspiracy theorists are giving their passion a bad name.

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Humans stopped roaming much earlier than we thought

August 16, 2023 History

Matti Friedman discusses recent archaeological discoveries in Israel that point to this transition occurring thousands of years before previously thought.

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