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What blind people wish you understood about their lives

September 19, 2022 Culture, History

Writer M. Leona Godin talks about the cultural and scientific history of blindness – and what sighted people should know about what it’s like to be blind.

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Nina Totenberg on her 50 years of friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

September 15, 2022 Culture, History

NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg talks about how conversations with Ruth Bader Ginsburg developed into a nearly 50-year friendship.

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The unfinished work of Reconstruction

September 6, 2022 History, Politics

Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He joins us to assess the current push for racial equality – from the election of Barack Obama to Black Lives Matter.

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What does the census tell us about our democracy?

September 6, 2022 History, Politics

History professor Dan Bouk talks about his examination of the 1940 Census, which both set the stage for New Deal politics and divided the nation after World War II.

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Everybody hates gerrymandering, but it’s here to stay

August 25, 2022 History, Politics

Professor Nick Seabrook joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the history of gerrymandering — even Abraham Lincoln was a victim — and why it’s not so easy to mitigate its effects today.

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Meet the migrant rebels who sparked the Mexican Revolution

August 24, 2022 History

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the Magónistas – brothers who fought for anarchy against the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz – and the very wealthy U.S. business owners they angered along the way. 

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Why we can trace today’s America to Reconstruction

August 23, 2022 History, Politics

Kermit Roosevelt III, a professor of Constitutional law, joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how Abraham Lincoln’s vision of America and the Reconstruction period that followed served as a course correction.

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The people who inspired the Founding Fathers

August 22, 2022 History, Politics

Historian Marilynne Robinson joins guest host John McCaa for a look at the people and events that shaped the Founding Fathers’ principles.

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When did parenting get so competitive?

August 11, 2022 Culture, History

Andrew Bomback is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University. He offers advice on how to break free of the intense cultural pressure surrounding parenting.

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The pioneering plastic surgeons of WWI

July 28, 2022 Health, History

Science writer Lindsey Fitzharris joins us to tell the story of Harold Gillies, a plastic surgeon who established one of the first hospitals for facial reconstruction as he worked to heal both body and soul.

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The moments that made their mark on music

July 25, 2022 History

Pianist Stuart Isacoff joins us to talk about the history of Western music, guiding us through how the sounds we hear have changed, and how politics and religion pushed their trajectories.

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The legendary hypocrisy of Thomas Jefferson

July 21, 2022 History

Prof. Thomas S. Kidd joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the ways Thomas Jefferson diverged from his own moral compass, from owning enslaved people to religion, and how it complicates the portrait of a man we know from history books.

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