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The Road to Now — 452 episodes

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#368 Women & the Civil War Pension System w/ Kristin Jorgensen

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#367 Ancient Coins w/ Dean Kinzer

3

The Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East w/ Eugene Rogan

4

The History of Golf w/ Tony Parker

5

#366 A Trip to the Hermitage w/ Ben & Bob

6

#365 Taxes: An American History w/ Vanessa S. Williamson

7

#364 Henry David Thoreau w/ Erik Ewers & Christopher Loren Ewers

8

Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician w/ James M Bradley

9

#363 What are America's Founding Principles? w/ Hans Zeiger

10

#362 America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams w/ Bob Crawford

11

#361 The Oscars: A History of the Academy Awards w/ Monica Sandler

12

#360 The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame w/ Joe Spaulding and Casey Soward

13

The Stone Pony w/ Nick Corasaniti

14

#359 Slippery Roads w/ Ben & Bob

15

Colombia, the US and the War on Drugs w/ Lina Britto

16

#358 Storm at the Capitol w/ Mary Clare Jalonick

17

#357 Venezuela in Context: US Foreign Policy in Latin America w/ Michelle Paranzino

18

#356 The Monroe Doctrine w/ Jay Sexton

19

#355 Money in American Politics w/ Jeff Clements

20

#354 In Pursuit w/Anita McBride & Colleen Shogan

21

How John Adams Defined the Presidency w/ Lindsay Chervinsky

22

Americana w/ Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell

23

#353 The American Revolution w/ Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt

24

#352 Wakara's America w/ Max Perry Mueller

25

#351 A History of the American Bookstore w/ Evan Friss

26

#350 The Pursuit of Liberty w/ Jeffrey Rosen

27

#349 Teaching History Roundtable

28

#348 Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer w/ Jake Tapper

29

An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War w/ Robert K.D. Colby

30

#347 A Graphic History of the Civil War w/ Andrew Fialka & Anderson Carmen

31

#346 A Forgotten History of Chinese Life in the United States w/ Beth Lew-Williams

32

#345 How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong w/ David J. Lynch

33

How the American Dream Became Temporary w/ Louis Hyman

34

#344 The Last Forty Years of American Politics w/ Joe Lockhart

35

Mourning the Presidents w/ Lindsay Chervinsky

36

Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for a Nation w/ Peter Stark

37

#343 Affordable Housing in Urban America w/ Tom Hanchett

38

The American Buffalo w/ Dayton Duncan

39

The Wide Awakes: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War w/ Jon Grinspan

40

US Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War w/ Jack Matlock

41

Robert Hanssen: The FBI's Most Damaging Spy w/ Major Garrett

42

#342 Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny w/ Jeff Bieber

43

#341 Native Nations w/ Kathleen DuVal

44

#340 How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Trump w/ Molly Worthen

45

#339 The Ballad of Marion Zioncheck (Live in DC part 2)

46

#338 Murder & Mayhem in the Capital City w/ Major Garrett, Doug Heye & Margaret Talev (Live in DC part 1)

47

#337 Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic w/ Joseph Slaughter

48

#336 No Elevator to Everest w/ Will Acuff

49

#335 The Good Friday Agreement and the Future of Ireland w/ Mark Doyle & Greg O'Loughlin

50

#334 Eurovision Past & Present w/ Paul Jordan

51

Charisma and American Politics– Live at Cat's Cradle w/ Molly Worthen, Doug Heye & Rufus Edmisten

52

#333 John Cale's Paris 1919 w/ Mark Doyle

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#332 The American Historical Association w/ Sarah Weicksel & Ed Ayers

54

#331 The Global Economy Past & Present w/ Jari Eloranta

55

National History Day w/ Cathy Gorn & Don Wildman

56

Country Capitalism w/ Bartow Elmore

57

#330 Blank Checks w/ Ben & Bob

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The Corruption of Libertarian Philosophy w/ Andrew Koppelman

59

#329 Necropolis: Disease, Power & Capitalism in 19th Century New Orleans w/ Kathryn Olivarius

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#328 Protect Democracy w/ Anne Tindall

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The Civilian Conservation Corps w/ Neil Maher

62

Women & American Slavery w/ Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

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#327 Mark Mustian and the Boy With Wings

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The History of Denver and the Wild West w/ Dick Kreck

65

#326 Politics and Society in Middle Earth: The Lord of the Rings w/ Dr. Scott Huffmon

66

#325 In Defense of Partisanship w/ Julian Zelizer

67

Gerd Schroth: From Child of Nazi Germany to American Citizen

68

#324 Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician w/ James M Bradley

69

#323 In With The New (2025) w/ Ben & Bob

70

The History of Santa Claus & Christmas Around the World w/ James Cooper

71

It's a Wonderful Life: The Story Behind America's Favorite Christmas Movie w/ Eric Smoodin

72

#322 Mitch McConnell: The Price of Power w/ Michael Tackett

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#321 The Circus Continues w/ Mark McKinnon

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#320 James Armistead Lafayette w/ Stephen Seals

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#319 Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn w/ Christopher Cox

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#318 Colombia, the US and the War on Drugs w/ Lina Britto

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#317 US Immigration Policy w/ Yael Schacher

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The Epidemic Episode

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The Electoral College w/ Edward Foley

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#316 The Women Who Shaped the White House in the 20th Century w/ Melissa Estes Blair

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#315 America's Most Violent Election w/ Dana Bash

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American Ramble w/ Neil King Jr.

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The 1970s w/ Jefferson Cowie

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#314 Reflections on Stalinism w/ Lewis Siegelbaum

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#313 How John Adams Defined the Presidency w/ Lindsay Chervinsky

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#312 America's Worst Vice President w/ Niki Hemmer

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Lyndon Baines Johnson's Legacy w/ Mark Updegrove & Mark A. Lawrence

88

#311 Lafayette's Farewell Tour: A 200 Year View w/ Mark Schneider

89

The History of North Carolina Popular Music w/ David Menconi & Dolph Ramseur

90

#310 The Stone Pony: An Oral History w/ Nick Corasaniti

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The 2020 Election: A (Revisited) First Draft w/ Robert Costa

92

#309 Sam Patch: America's First Daredevil w/ Rivers Langley & Narado Moore

93

Woodrow Wilson & Presidential Morality w/ Patricia O'Toole

94

Securing the Revolution: Washington's Farewell Address w/ John Avlon

95

When the Irish Invaded Canada w/ Chris Klein

96

#308 An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War w/ Robert K.D. Colby

97

Bonnaroo: The Story Behind the Festival w/ co-founder Ashley Capps

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1984: The Year that Changed Music Forever w/ Michaelangelo Matos

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#307 Music and Mind with Renée Fleming and Dan Levitin

100

Swept Away w/ John Logan and John Gallagher

101

#306 The Wide Awakes: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War w/ Jon Grinspan

102

Why Bushwick Bill Matters w/ Charles Hughes

103

#305 A Conversation w/ Jonah Goldberg – Recorded Live at Word of South Festival 2024

104

#304 National History Day w/ Cathy Gorn & Don Wildman

105

The Harlem Globetrotters w/ Ben Green

106

#303 The Election of 2016 (and Ever After) w/ John Heilemann (Third Party Series #8)

107

#302 The Election of 2000 w/ Doug Heye (Third Party Series #7)

108

#301 The Election of 1992 w/ Julian Zelizer (Third Party Series #6)

109

#300 The Election of 1980 w/ Rick Perlstein (Third Party Series #5)

110

#299 The Election of 1948 w/ Jefferson Cowie (Third Party Series #4)

111

#298 The Election of 1912 w/ Michael Patrick Cullinane (Third Party Series #3)

112

#297 The Election of 1860 w/ Michael Green (Third Party Series #2)

113

#296 The Election of 1824 w/ Lindsay Chervinsky (Third Party Series #1)

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#295 The Pursuit of Happiness w/ Jeffrey Rosen

115

The Best Stories You've (Probably) Never Heard w/ Greg Jackson

116

The FBI w/ Stephen Underhill

117

#294 The Stephen Foster Story w/ Richard Blanton, Donna Phillips & Johnny Warren

118

#293 New Year, Old Us w/ Ben & Bob

119

#292 It's a Wonderful Life: The Story Behind America's Favorite Christmas Film w/ Eric Smoodin

120

#291 A Forgotten History of American Suburbs w/ Tim Keogh

121

Photographing the President w/ Pete Souza

122

Faith in Freedom w/ Andrew Polk

123

#290 The Circus: An Exit Interview w/ Mark McKinnon

124

Monsanto's Past, Our Future w/ Bart Elmore

125

#289 The Dead Bodies in Your Favorite Museum w/ Tanya Marsh

126

#288 Ukraine and Russia: The History Behind the War w/ Serhy Yekelchyk

127

#287 Robert Hanssen: The FBI's Most Damaging Spy w/ Major Garrett

128

#286 Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music w/ David Menconi

129

#285 The American Buffalo w/ Dayton Duncan

130

# 284 Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell on Americana Music

131

Celebrating Levon Helm w/ John Barry & Larry Campbell

132

#283 The Singers Talk w/ Jason Thomas Gordon

133

The Kinks w/ Mark Doyle

134

#282 Tecumseh & William Henry Harrison's Struggle for a Nation w/ Peter Stark

135

#281 Montgomery C. Meigs: Master Builder of the Union Army w/ Robert O'Harrow Jr.

136

#280 Standard Deviations: The politics of education in Florida and beyond w/ Ana Goñi-Lessan & Andrew Polk

137

#279 Warren G. Harding and Other Affairs w/ Ben & Bob

138

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism w/ Edward Baptist

139

George Carlin's American Dream w/ Michael Bonfiglio & Kliph Nesteroff

140

#278 Artificial Intelligence w/ Roger McNamee

141

The Rise and Fall of the American Suburbs w/ Kyle Riismandel

142

Benjamin Franklin w/ Dayton Duncan & David Schmidt

143

#277 The Allman Brothers' Journey to Fillmore East w/ Bob Beatty

144

#276 Christianity and American Politics in the 21st Century w/ John Fea

145

Juneteenth w/ Annette Gordon-Reed

146

#275 No Labels w/ Mark McKinnon

147

#274 The Original Green New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps w/ Neil Maher

148

#273 Seven Years of RTN w/ Doug Heye & Margaret Talev

149

#272 Country Capitalism w/ Bartow Elmore

150

Reaganland w/ Richard Perlstein

151

#271 American Ramble w/ Neil King Jr.

152

#270 Women & American Slavery w/ Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

153

#269 The Archaeology of Dust w/ Anita Radini

154

#268 John Quincy Adams: Founding Son

155

#267 Benghazi w/ Ethan Chorin

156

A Conversation w/ Ken Burns (#191 Rebroadcast)

157

#266 College Basketball: The Story of March Madness w/ Dana O'Neil

158

#265 The Legacy of Jimmy Carter's Foreign Policy w/ Nancy Mitchell

159

#264 Andrew Young on Jimmy Carter

160

#263 Mourning the Presidents w/ Lindsay Chervinsky

161

#262 Atlanta & Charlotte: Women's History in the Urban South w/ La Shonda Mims

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#261 Jordan Gross: Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, Idaho

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#260 Presidential Transitions w/ David Marchick

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#259 Silent Spring Revolution w/ Douglas Brinkley

165

#258 The Feres Doctrine (Part II) w/ Maximillian Potter & Richard Stayskal

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#257 The Feres Doctrine w/ Maximillian Potter & Richard Stayskal

167

The Bering Straight: An Environmental History w/ Bathsheba Demuth

168

Uncivil Christmas: The Civil War & Christmas in Williamsburg w/ Carson Hudson

169

#256 The Legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson w/ Mark Updegrove & Mark A. Lawrence

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#255 Freedom's Dominion w/ Jefferson Cowie

171

The History of St. Jude Children's Hospital w/ Richard Shadyac

172

#253 Searching for America's Emotional Source Code with Dov Baron

173

Chernobyl, The Last Czars, and the Pros & Cons of Dramatizing History w/ Philippa Heatherington & Jon Waterlow

174

#252 Deathcare Revolution w/ Tanya Marsh

175

#251 The West Wing & Beyond w/ Pete Souza

176

#250 Celebrating Levon Helm w/ John Barry & Larry Campbell

177

#249 The Corruption of Libertarian Philosophy w/ Andrew Koppelman

178

Journalism & Politics w/ Bill Plante & Olivier Knox

179

#248 The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict w/ Laurence Broers

180

#247 The FBI w/ Stephen Underhill

181

The Great Exception: The Rise and Fall of the New Deal w/ Jefferson Cowie

182

The French Revolution w/ Peter McPhee

183

#246 Rank Choice Voting w/ Scott Huffmon

184

#245 Cryptocurrency: A Brief History w/ David Hollerith

185

#244 Presidential Rhetoric: The last one hundred years w/ Bruce Carlson

186

#243 Out of the Trenches: What a World War I Truce Can Teach Us About Modern Politics w/ Curt Stedron

187

The Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East w/ Eugene Rogan

188

#242 Why Bushwick Bill Matters w/ Charles Hughes

189

#241 Basically Anybody Can Do It

190

Surrender in the American Civil War w/ David Silkenat

191

#240 When the People Decide: A History of Ballot Initiatives w/ Jenna Spinelle

192

#239 The Best History Stories You've Probably Never Heard w/ Greg Jackson

193

#238 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame w/ John Goehrke

194

#237 George Carlin's American Dream w/ Michael Bonfiglio & Kliph Nesteroff

195

#236 Catching Up w/ Doug Heye

196

In the Footsteps of Lafayette w/ Julien Icher

197

#235 Catching Up w/ Heather Cox Richardson

198

#234 Primary Problems w/ Brian Rosenwald

199

The Origins of American Immigration Policy w/ Hidetaka Hirota

200

#233 The 6th Anniversary Show w/ Matt Negrin

201

#232 Attention

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#231 Freedom of Speech w/ Lynn Greenky

203

The Armenian Genocide w/ Ron Suny

204

#230 1984: The Year the Music Changed Forever w/ Michaelangelo Matos

205

#229 Benjamin Franklin w/ Dayton Duncan and David Schmidt

206

The Russian Revolution w/ Lewis Siegelbaum

207

#228 Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights

208

#227 Russia's Long History of Nationalizing Foreign Property

209

#226 Russian Rubles, Western Sanctions w/ Kristy Ironside

210

#225 Inside American Militias w/ Heath Druzin

211

#224 The Electoral College w/ Edward Foley

212

#223 Presidential Records & Other Controversies

213

#222 Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? w/ John Fea

214

#221 Ukraine w/ Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

215

Crossroads Special: History Daily - Two Stories from the Space Race

216

#220 Processing the Past w/ Jon Grinspan

217

#219 Swept Away w/ John Logan and John Gallagher

218

#218 The History of Cigarettes w/ Louis Kyriakoudes

219

#217 Forward

220

America's First War on Christmas w/ Bruce Carlson

221

#216 Faith in Freedom w/ Andrew Polk

222

#215 The Power of Story (Revisited) w/ Donna Washington

223

The Wild West w/ Dick Kreck

224

#214 Woody Guthrie: Crafting Everyday Life w/ Nora Guthrie

225

#213 The 2020 Election: A First Draft w/ Robert Costa

226

#212 Redistricting: A Primer w/ Wendy Underhill & Ben Williams

227

The American Empire w/ Daniel Immerwahr

228

#211 The Constitution w/ Jeffrey Rosen

229

#210 Miss America's Secret Past w/ Amy Argetsinger

230

#209 The Corn Syrup Controversy w/ Benjamin Cohen

231

A Frail League of Friendship: The Articles of Confederation w/ Greg Jackson (Expanded Rebroadcast)

232

#208 Monsanto's Past, Our Future w/ Bart Elmore

233

This Episode Kills Fascists: Woody Guthrie's Life & Legacy w/ Deana McCloud

234

#207 Vigilantes

235

The History of Coffee w/ Mark Pendergrast

236

#206 Telling History through Journalism with Julian Rubinstein

237

The Mignonette & Everything Else w/ Neil Hanson

238

#205 The History of Student Debt w/ Ellie Shermer

239

#204 Historical Narratives & Power

240

#203 How to Talk to a Science Denier w/ Lee McIntyre

241

Laughing at Stalin w/ Jon Waterlow

242

#202 A Tour Guide's History of Los Angeles

243

How the American Dream Became Temporary w/ Louis Hyman

244

#201 Game Show Archive w/ Bob Boden & Chris Bensch

245

Coffee with The Avett Brothers (Expanded Rebroadcast)

246

#200 American History in Russia w/ Sean Guillory

247

#199 Reaganland w/ Rick Perlstein

248

#198 Juneteenth w/ Annette Gordon-Reed

249

The History of the Harlem Globetrotters

250

#197 Energy Crises: A Half-Century of Hard Choices w/ Jay Hakes

251

The 5th Anniversary Party

252

#195 Fixing Elections w/ Louis Woods

253

#194 The Rise and Fall of the American Suburbs w/ Kyle Kiismandel

254

#193 Understanding the American Rescue Plan Act w/ Erlinda Doherty

255

#192 The History of Financial Bubbles w/ William Quinn

256

Gerd Schroth's Road from Child of Nazi Germany to American Citizen

257

#191 A Conversation with Ken Burns

258

#190 American Militias w/ Amy Cooter

259

#189 Space Lasers

260

#188 Why the 1776 Report Still Matters w/ John Fea

261

#187 The Insurrection Episode

262

#186 Dark Archives w/ Megan Rosenbloom

263

#185 Pragmatic History w/ Bill Scher

264

The History of Santa Claus and Christmas Culture w/ James Cooper (RTN #182 Rebroadcast)

265

#184 The President's Cabinet w/ Lindsay Chervinsky

266

#183 The History of the Lumbee Indians w/ Malinda Maynor Lowery

267

Making the Call w/ Matt Negrin #1: Oh God What if He Claims Victory?!

268

Washington's Farewell Revisited w/ John Avlon

269

#181 More Questions than Answers

270

#180 The Transformation of American Policing w/ Stuart Schrader

271

#179 The Pursuit of Happiness w/ Ravi Patel

272

#178 The Facebook Catastrophe w/ Roger McNamee

273

#177 How the South Won the Civil War w/ Heather Cox Richardson

274

#176 Musical Chairs w/ Joe Kwon

275

I Can't Breathe: Surviving the Dual Pandemics of Racism and Covid-19 w/ Louis Woods

276

#175 The Death of Expertise w/ Tom Nichols

277

#174 Direction w/ Michael Bonfiglio

278

#173 The South w/ Trae Crowder

279

#172 Fourth Anniversary Party

280

#171 Baseball in Context w/ Jayson Stark

281

#170 Soviet Soldiers and the Red Army in World War II w/ Brandon Schechter

282

# 169 The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached w/ Mark Doyle

283

Technology and the Mind w/ Nicholas Carr

284

#168 Breaking Down the 5G Conspiracy w/ Stacy Wood

285

#167 The Outbreak Narrative w/ Priscilla Wald

286

#166 Everything's Going To Be Okay

287

#165 Saving America's Cities w/ Lizabeth Cohen

288

#164 What('s) A Disaster

289

The History of Coal w/ Chuck Keeney

290

#163 The Avett Brothers Archive w/ Tim Mossberger

291

#162 The Presidents' Day Rundown

292

#161 Food in the Era of Adulteration w/ Benjamin Cohen

293

#160 NASCAR and Moonshine w/ Kyle Petty and Dan Pierce (Recorded Live at the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, NC)

294

#159 The History of Charlotte, NC w/ Thomas Hanchett & Pam Kelley (Recorded Live at the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, NC)

295

#158 Live in Carrboro, NC- Charisma in American Politics & Society w/ Molly Worthen, Doug Heye & Rufus Edmisten (Recorded at Cat's Cradle)

296

#157 The State of the Union w/ Matt Negrin

297

#156 Executive Boundaries

298

#155 Uncivil Christmas w/ Carson Hudson

299

#154 America's First War on Christmas w/ Bruce Carlson

300

#153 Floating Coast: The Environmental History of the Bering Strait w/ Bathsheba Demuth

301

#152 Building Community and Breaking Barriers w/ Digital Humanities (Recorded Live at ASEEES 2019)

302

#151 Live in Chicago w/ Pete Souza & Erin Welsh (recorded at Beverly Arts Center)

303

#150 Life on the Road

304

#149 The History of Hong Kong w/ Mindy Smith

305

# 148 The Bizarre Life of American Death w/ Caitlin Doughty

306

#147 How to Remove a Confederate Monument w/ Adam Swensek

307

#146 Keeping Government Secrets w/ Stacy Wood

308

#145 The Opioid Crisis w/ Beth Macy

309

The Seriousness of Being Funny w/ Tom Shadyac (Rebroadcast)

310

#144 Saudi Arabia and the Middle East w/ Sean Foley

311

#143 Research!

312

#142 How Talk Radio Took Over the Republican Party w/ Brian Rosenwald

313

#141 The Last Czars, Chernobyl, and the Pros & Cons of Dramatizing History w/ Philippa Hetherington & Jon Waterlow

314

#140 Citizen Coke: The History of Coca-Cola w/ Bartow Elmore

315

# 139 Healthcare, the Law and the Future(s) of Privacy w/ Roy Wyman

316

#138 The Power of Story (Live from NCSL's 2019 Legislative Summit)

317

RTN Theology #11 The Character of Virtue w/ Stanley Hauerwas

318

# 137 Making Fun of History: Creating Serious Games w/ Ben Sawyer

319

#136 The City of the Future: Apex, North Carolina

320

#136 The City of the Future: Apex, North Carolina

321

#135 Surrender in the American Civil War w/ David Silkenat

322

#134 The American Empire w/ Daniel Immerwahr

323

RTN Theology 10: The Life & Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

324

Life, Beer & Politics w/ Gov. John Hickenlooper (Rebroadcast)

325

#133 Bonnaroo Past & Present w/ festival co-founder Ashley Capps (live from Bonnaroo)

326

#132 In the Footsteps of Lafayette w/ Julien Icher

327

#131 Photographing the President w/ Pete Souza

328

#130 Sources, Methods & Music w/ Robert Costa

329

#129 RTN Third Anniversary Party w/ Matt Negrin

330

#128 A Frail League of Friendship: The Articles of Confederation w/ Greg Jackson

331

RTN Theology #9: Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity w/ Miguel De La Torre

332

#127 The History of Privacy in Modern America w/ Sarah Igo

333

#126 The Origins of American Immigration Policy w/ Hidetaka Hirota

334

RTN Voices #1: The Life & Times of Rufus Allan Sevier (RTN April Fools Episode)

335

RTN Theology #8 Elizabeth Seton and Catholics in Early America w/ Catherine O'Donnell

336

#125 When the Irish Invaded Canada w/ Chris Klein

337

#124 Political Coalitions from 1990 to 2019 w/ Amy Walter

338

#123 How to Tell a Good Story w/ Jakob Lewis

339

#122 The Arctic w/ Heidi Bohaker & Alison Smith

340

RTN Theology #7 Remembering Walter B. Jones: Living by Faith and by Truth

341

#121 Gender and History w/ Lisa Fine

342

#120 The History of Influenza w/ John Barry

343

#119 Karl Marx and History

344

#118 The GI Bill and the Legacy of Racial Discrimination w/ Louis Woods

345

#117 American Slavery w/ Edward Baptist

346

#116 What is the Middle Class? w/ Scott Wasserman

347

#115 The 1970s w/ Jefferson Cowie

348

#114 Making the Government Talk: US Covert Operations and Freedom of Information w/ Peter Kornbluh

349

#113 War on the Banana Skin

350

#112 The Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Modern Middle East w/ Eugene Rogan

351

#23.2 Felon Disfranchisement and Citizenship in the US w/ Pippa Holloway (w/ update)

352

#111 Dvořák in America w/ Matt Negrin

353

#110 Gerry Adams and the Global Road to Peace

354

RTN Theology #6 The Road to Hope? The Challenges of Faith in Politics

355

#109 Presidential Impeachment w/ Jeffrey Engel

356

#108 From Scunthorpe to Brooklyn w/ The Ruen Brothers

357

#107 Laughing at Stalin: The Politics of Humor w/ Jon Waterlow

358

#106 Why You Should Vote w/ Andy Bernstein

359

#105 Charlie Cook on the 2018 Midterm Elections

360

#104 Bill Plante & Olivier Knox on Journalism and Politics (live at Glover Park Group)

361

#103 How the American Dream Became Temporary w/ Louis Hyman

362

#102 Stand Up Comedy and Los Angeles w/ Pat Reilly

363

#101 Nativism in American Politics w/ David Bennett

364

#100 RTN One Hundred

365

RTN Theology #4: Kutter Callaway on Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms

366

BONUS: Elvis Presley & America (from My History Can Beat Up Your Politics)

367

#99 The History & Politics of the World Cup w/ Alex Galarza & Matt Negrin

368

#33 Jim Cornette on the History of Professional Wrestling

369

#98 Dwight Eisenhower & US Foreign Intervention in the 1950s w/ William Hitchcock

370

#97 Songs of Social Justice w/ Governor Martin O'Malley

371

#96 Tyler Mahan Coe on Podcasting the History of Country Music

372

#95 Tom Marshall on Writing Phish and Everything Else

373

#94 This Episode Kills Fascists: The Life & Legacy of Woody Guthrie w/ Deana McCloud

374

#93 Woodrow Wilson & Presidential Morality w/ Patricia O'Toole

375

Catching Up: Sean Foley on Syria and the Middle East

376

#92 The Armenian Genocide w/ Ronald Suny

377

#91 The History of Satire and the American Political Cartoon w/ Richard Samuel West

378

#90 The History of the Cherokee Nation w/ John Sedgwick

379

#40 The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. w/ Clayborne Carson

380

RTN Theology #3: A Conversation with Kate Bowler

381

#89 The GOP and Tax Reform Revisited w/ Brian Riedl

382

#88 Taxation, the Great Depression, and the GOP Tax Reform w/ Robert McElvaine

383

#87 All Roads Lead to Douglas Brinkley

384

#86 William McKinley and the Republican Party with Robert Merry

385

#85 The History of US-Mexican Relations w/ Bruce Carlson (Recorded Live in Riviera Maya, Mexico)

386

#84 America's Forgotten War: The War of 1812 w/ Don Hickey

387

#83 Foreign Policy in American History w/ Joyce Kaufman

388

#81 The History of Coffee w/ Mark Pendergrast

389

RTN Theology #1: The Intersection of Christianity & Culture in the United States ft. James K.A. Smith

390

#80 Navajo Code Talkers, Pocahontas, & Native American History w/ Ashley Riley Sousa

391

#47 The History of Christianity w/ Molly Worthen (Rebroadcast)

392

#79 The Russian Revolution w/ Lewis Siegelbaum

393

#78 The French Revolution w/ Peter McPhee

394

#77 Martin Luther & the Reformation with Donald Fortson

395

#76 History of American Cemeteries with Tanya Marsh

396

#75 William Walker, Historical Markers, and (Re)Writing History

397

#72 Coffee With The Avett Brothers

398

#71 Gerd Schroth on Life as a Child of Nazi Germany, Refugee, Immigrant, And Now, American Citizen

399

#69 Lance Armstrong on Moving Forward Without Forgetting the Past

400

#68 The Politics of Immigration in American History with Andrew Gyory

401

#66 Charles Darwin and American History w/ Randall Fuller

402

#65 The History of Early America w/ Liz Covart

403

#64 The History of Oil w/ Paul Roberts

404

#63 The History of Green Energy w/ Alexis Madrigal

405

#62 Nuclear Energy w/ Jim Clarke and Steve Krahn

406

#61 The History of Coal w/ Chuck Keeney

407

#59 The History of World War I w/ Mitchell Yockelson

408

#58 The History of North Korea w/ Sheena Greitens

409

#57 Margaret Talev on the White House Press Corps

410

#56 The History of the Harlem Globetrotters w/ Ben Green

411

#55 Neil Hanson on the Mignonette & Everything Else

412

#54 The (After)Life of James K. Polk w/ Tom Price

413

#53 The History of Syria w/ Sean Foley

414

#52 Douglas Brinkley on Bob Dylan, John Kennedy, & the Rise of the American Individual

415

#51 The History of Golf w/ Tony Parker

416

#50 Ambassador Jack Matlock on Diplomacy & US-Russian Relations

417

#49 The History of Technology w/ Nicholas Carr

418

#47 The History of Christianity in America w/ Molly Worthen

419

#46 Martin Van Buren & the Age of Jackson w/ Mark Cheathem

420

#45 Bruce Carlson on Presidential History

421

#44 The History of NASCAR w/ Kyle Petty

422

#43 The History of the Democratic Party w/ Bruce Schulman

423

#42 The History of National Parks w/ Jon Jarvis

424

#41 The History of Health Insurance w/ Melissa Thomasson

425

#40 The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. w/ Clayborne Carson

426

#38 The History of the Republican Party w/ Heather Cox Richardson

427

#37 NASA, Warren G. Harding, Daylight Saving, & Political Parties (Listener Q&A)

428

#36 Family, History, and Possibilities w/ Turner Simkins

429

#35 Jimmy Carter & US Foreign Relations w/ Nancy Mitchell

430

#34 Tom Shadyac on the Seriousness of Being Funny

431

#33 Jim Cornette on the History of Pro Wrestling

432

#32 Tolerance and Faith in American Politics w/ Jimmy Williams

433

#30 The Origins of Conservative Talk Radio w/ Brian Rosenwald

434

#29 The History of Putin's Russia w/ Arch Getty

435

#28 The History of Presidential Elections w/ Bruce Carlson

436

#27 Matt Negrin & Alexander Trowbridge on Campaign Surrogates and Presidential Elections

437

#25 The History of Country & Soul Music w/ Charles Hughes

438

#24 The History of the New Deal w/ Jefferson Cowie

439

#23 The History of Voting Rights w/ Pippa Holloway

440

#21 The History of Hollywood and Politics w/ Kathryn Cramer Brownell

441

#20 Presidential Debate Extravaganza!

442

#19 Sir Alan Meale on the Brexit, the Labor Party, and the Recent Political History of the United Kingdom

443

#18 The History of the Internet w/ Bradley Fidler

444

#17 The History of US-Central American Relations w/ Carlos Aleman

445

#13 Scott Avett and the Road to Now

446

#12 Hillary's Emails & the History of Government Documents w/ Stacy Wood

447

#7 The History of Denver and the Wild West w/ Dick Kreck

448

#6 Governor John Hickenlooper on His Life in Beer and Politics

449

#5 Native American Culture and History w/ Tara Houska and Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

450

#4 The History of Charlotte & the Rise of the New South City w/ Thomas Hanchett

451

#3 On the Media w/ Alexander Trowbridge & Matt Negrin

452

#1 Welcome to the Road to Now