The Road to Now

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 Oct 7, 2019


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Bob Crawford (The Avett Brothers) & Dr. Ben Sawyer (MTSU History) share conversations with great thinkers from a variety of backgrounds – historians, artists, legal scholars, political figures and more –who help us uncover the many roads that run between past and present. For more information, visit TheRoadToNow.com If you'd like to support our work, join us on Patreon: Patreon.com/TheRoadToNow

Episode Date
#301 The Election of 1992 w/ Julian Zelizer (Third Party Series #6)
Mar 25, 2024
#300 The Election of 1980 w/ Rick Perlstein (Third Party Series #5)
Mar 18, 2024
#299 The Election of 1948 w/ Jefferson Cowie (Third Party Series #4)
Mar 11, 2024
#298 The Election of 1912 w/ Michael Patrick Cullinane (Third Party Series #3)
Mar 04, 2024
#297 The Election of 1860 w/ Michael Green (Third Party Series #2)
Feb 26, 2024
#296 The Election of 1824 w/ Lindsay Chervinsky (Third Party Series #1)
Feb 19, 2024
The Electoral College w/ Edward Foley
Feb 12, 2024
#295 The Pursuit of Happiness w/ Jeffrey Rosen
Feb 05, 2024
The Best Stories You've (Probably) Never Heard w/ Greg Jackson
Jan 29, 2024
The FBI w/ Stephen Underhill
Jan 22, 2024
#294 The Stephen Foster Story w/ Richard Blanton, Donna Phillips & Johnny Warren
Jan 15, 2024
#293 New Year, Old Us w/ Ben & Bob
Jan 08, 2024
#292 It’s a Wonderful Life: The Story Behind America’s Favorite Christmas Film w/ Eric Smoodin
Dec 11, 2023
#291 A Forgotten History of American Suburbs w/ Tim Keogh
Dec 04, 2023
Photographing the President w/ Pete Souza
Nov 27, 2023
Faith in Freedom w/ Andrew Polk
Nov 20, 2023
#290 The Circus: An Exit Interview w/ Mark McKinnon
Nov 13, 2023
Monsanto’s Past, Our Future w/ Bart Elmore
Nov 06, 2023
#289 The Dead Bodies in Your Favorite Museum w/ Tanya Marsh
Oct 30, 2023
#288 Ukraine and Russia: The History Behind the War w/ Serhy Yekelchyk
Oct 23, 2023
#287 Robert Hanssen: The FBI’s Most Damaging Spy w/ Major Garrett
Oct 16, 2023
#286 Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music w/ David Menconi
Oct 09, 2023
#285 The American Buffalo w/ Dayton Duncan
Oct 02, 2023
# 284 Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell on Americana Music
Sep 25, 2023
Celebrating Levon Helm w/ John Barry & Larry Campbell
Sep 18, 2023
#283 The Singers Talk w/ Jason Thomas Gordon
Sep 11, 2023
The Kinks w/ Mark Doyle
Sep 04, 2023
#282 Tecumseh & William Henry Harrison’s Struggle for a Nation w/ Peter Stark
Aug 28, 2023
#281 Montgomery C. Meigs: Master Builder of the Union Army w/ Robert O’Harrow Jr.
Aug 21, 2023
#280 Standard Deviations: The politics of education in Florida and beyond w/ Ana Goñi-Lessan & Andrew Polk
Aug 14, 2023
#279 Warren G. Harding and Other Affairs w/ Ben & Bob
Aug 07, 2023
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism w/ Edward Baptist
Jul 31, 2023
George Carlin's American Dream w/ Michael Bonfiglio & Kliph Nesteroff
Jul 24, 2023
#278 Artificial Intelligence w/ Roger McNamee
Jul 17, 2023
The Rise and Fall of the American Suburbs w/ Kyle Riismandel
Jul 10, 2023
Benjamin Franklin w/ Dayton Duncan & David Schmidt
Jul 03, 2023
#277 The Allman Brothers’ Journey to Fillmore East w/ Bob Beatty
Jun 26, 2023
#276 Christianity and American Politics in the 21st Century w/ John Fea
Jun 19, 2023
Juneteenth w/ Annette Gordon-Reed
Jun 12, 2023
#275 No Labels w/ Mark McKinnon
Jun 05, 2023
#274 The Original Green New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps w/ Neil Maher#274
May 29, 2023
#273 Seven Years of RTN w/ Doug Heye & Margaret Talev
May 22, 2023
#272 Country Capitalism w/ Bartow Elmore
May 15, 2023
Reaganland w/ Richard Perlstein
May 08, 2023
#271 American Ramble w/ Neil King Jr.
May 01, 2023
#270 Women & American Slavery w/ Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Apr 24, 2023
#269 The Archaeology of Dust w/ Anita Radini
Apr 17, 2023
#268 John Quincy Adams: Founding Son
Apr 10, 2023
#267 Benghazi w/ Ethan Chorin
Apr 03, 2023
A Conversation w/ Ken Burns (#191 Rebroadcast)
Mar 27, 2023
#266 College Basketball: The Story of March Madness w/ Dana O'Neil
Mar 20, 2023
#265 The Legacy of Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy w/ Nancy Mitchell
Mar 06, 2023
#264 Andrew Young on Jimmy Carter
Feb 27, 2023
#263 Mourning the Presidents w/ Lindsay Chervinsky
Feb 20, 2023
#262 Atlanta & Charlotte: Women's History in the Urban South w/ La Shonda Mims
Feb 13, 2023
#261 Jordan Gross: Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, Idaho
Feb 06, 2023
#260 Presidential Transitions w/ David Marchick
Jan 23, 2023
#259 Silent Spring Revolution w/ Douglas Brinkley
Jan 16, 2023
#258 The Feres Doctrine (Part II) w/ Maximillian Potter & Richard Stayskal
Jan 09, 2023
#257 The Feres Doctrine w/ Maximillian Potter & Richard Stayskal
Jan 02, 2023
The Bering Straight: An Environmental History w/ Bathsheba Demuth
Dec 26, 2022
Uncivil Christmas: The Civil War & Christmas in Williamsburg w/ Carson Hudson
Dec 19, 2022
#256 The Legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson w/ Mark Updegrove & Mark A. Lawrence
Dec 12, 2022
#255 Freedom’s Dominion w/ Jefferson Cowie
Dec 05, 2022
The History of Santa Claus & Christmas Culture w/ James Cooper (A Holiday Classic!)
Nov 28, 2022
The History of St. Jude Children’s Hospital w/ Richard Shadyac
Nov 24, 2022
#253 Searching for America’s Emotional Source Code with Dov Baron
Nov 14, 2022
Chernobyl, The Last Czars, and the Pros & Cons of Dramatizing History w/ Philippa Heatherington & Jon Waterlow
Nov 07, 2022
#252 Deathcare Revolution w/ Tanya Marsh
Oct 31, 2022
#251 The West Wing & Beyond w/ Pete Souza
Oct 24, 2022
#250 Celebrating Levon Helm w/ John Barry & Larry Campbell
Oct 17, 2022
#249 The Corruption of Libertarian Philosophy w/ Andrew Koppelman
Oct 10, 2022
Journalism & Politics w/ Bill Plante & Olivier Knox
Oct 03, 2022
#248 The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict w/ Laurence Broers
Sep 26, 2022
#247 The FBI w/ Stephen Underhill
Sep 19, 2022
The Great Exception: The Rise and Fall of the New Deal w/ Jefferson Cowie
Sep 12, 2022
The French Revolution w/ Peter McPhee
Sep 05, 2022
#246 Rank Choice Voting w/ Scott Huffmon
Aug 29, 2022
#245 Cryptocurrency: A Brief History w/ David Hollerith
Aug 22, 2022
#244 Presidential Rhetoric: The last one hundred years w/ Bruce Carlson
Aug 15, 2022
#243 Out of the Trenches: What a World War I Truce Can Teach Us About Modern Politics w/ Curt Stedron
Aug 08, 2022
The Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East w/ Eugene Rogan
Aug 01, 2022
#242 Why Bushwick Bill Matters w/ Charles Hughes
Jul 25, 2022
#241 Basically Anybody Can Do It
Jul 18, 2022
Surrender in the American Civil War w/ David Silkenat
Jul 11, 2022
#240 When the People Decide: A History of Ballot Initiatives w/ Jenna Spinelle
Jul 04, 2022
#239 The Best History Stories You’ve Probably Never Heard w/ Greg Jackson
Jun 27, 2022
#238 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame w/ John Goehrke
Jun 20, 2022
#237 George Carlin’s American Dream w/ Michael Bonfiglio & Kliph Nesteroff
Jun 13, 2022
#236 Catching Up w/ Doug Heye
Jun 06, 2022
In the Footsteps of Lafayette w/ Julien Icher
May 30, 2022
#235 Catching Up w/ Heather Cox Richardson
May 23, 2022
#234 Primary Problems w/ Brian Rosenwald
May 19, 2022
The Origins of American Immigration Policy w/ Hidetaka Hirota
May 16, 2022
#233 The 6th Anniversary Show w/ Matt Negrin
May 09, 2022
#232 Attention
May 02, 2022
#231 Freedom of Speech w/ Lynn Greenky
Apr 25, 2022
The Armenian Genocide w/ Ron Suny
Apr 18, 2022
#230 1984: The Year the Music Changed Forever w/ Michaelangelo Matos
Apr 11, 2022
#229 Benjamin Franklin w/ Dayton Duncan and David Schmidt
Apr 04, 2022
The Russian Revolution w/ Lewis Siegelbaum
Mar 28, 2022
#228 Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights
Mar 21, 2022
#227 Russia’s Long History of Nationalizing Foreign Property
Mar 14, 2022
#226 Russian Rubles, Western Sanctions w/ Kristy Ironside
Mar 07, 2022
#225 Inside American Militias w/ Heath Druzin
Feb 28, 2022
#224 The Electoral College w/ Edward Foley
Feb 21, 2022
#223 Presidential Records & Other Controversies
Feb 14, 2022
#222 Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? w/ John Fea
Feb 07, 2022
#221 Ukraine w/ Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
Jan 31, 2022
Crossroads Special: History Daily - Two Stories from the Space Race
Jan 29, 2022
#220 Processing the Past w/ Jon Grinspan
Jan 24, 2022
#219 Swept Away w/ John Logan and John Gallagher
Jan 17, 2022
#218 The History of Cigarettes w/ Louis Kyriakoudes
Jan 10, 2022
#217 Forward
Jan 03, 2022
America's First War on Christmas w/ Bruce Carlson
Dec 20, 2021
#216 Faith in Freedom w/ Andrew Polk
Dec 13, 2021
#215 The Power of Story (Revisited) w/ Donna Washington
Dec 06, 2021
The Wild West w/ Dick Kreck
Nov 29, 2021
#214 Woody Guthrie: Crafting Everyday Life w/ Nora Guthrie
Nov 22, 2021
#213 The 2020 Election: A First Draft w/ Robert Costa
Nov 15, 2021
#212 Redistricting: A Primer w/ Wendy Underhill & Ben Williams
Nov 08, 2021
The American Empire w/ Daniel Immerwahr
Nov 01, 2021
#211 The Constitution w/ Jeffrey Rosen
Oct 25, 2021
#210 Miss America’s Secret Past w/ Amy Argetsinger
Oct 18, 2021
#209 The Corn Syrup Controversy w/ Benjamin Cohen
Oct 11, 2021
A Frail League of Friendship: The Articles of Confederation w/ Greg Jackson (Expanded Rebroadcast)
Oct 04, 2021
#208 Monsanto’s Past, Our Future w/ Bart Elmore
Sep 27, 2021
This Episode Kills Fascists: Woody Guthrie's Life & Legacy w/ Deana McCloud
Sep 20, 2021
#207 Vigilantes
Sep 13, 2021
The History of Coffee w/ Mark Pendergrast
Sep 06, 2021
#206 Telling History through Journalism with Julian Rubinstein
Aug 30, 2021
The Mignonette & Everything Else w/ Neil Hanson
Aug 23, 2021
#205 The History of Student Debt w/ Ellie Shermer
Aug 16, 2021
#204 Historical Narratives & Power
Aug 09, 2021
#203 How to Talk to a Science Denier w/ Lee McIntyre
Aug 02, 2021
Laughing at Stalin w/ Jon Waterlow
Jul 26, 2021
#202 A Tour Guide’s History of Los Angeles
Jul 19, 2021
How the American Dream Became Temporary w/ Louis Hyman
Jul 12, 2021
#201 Game Show Archive w/ Bob Boden & Chris Bensch
Jul 05, 2021
Coffee with The Avett Brothers (Expanded Rebroadcast)
Jun 28, 2021
#200 American History in Russia w/ Sean Guillory
Jun 21, 2021
#199 Reaganland w/ Rick Perlstein
Jun 14, 2021
#198 Juneteenth w/ Annette Gordon-Reed
Jun 07, 2021
The History of the Harlem Globetrotters
May 31, 2021
#197 Energy Crises: A Half-Century of Hard Choices w/ Jay Hakes
May 17, 2021
The 5th Anniversary Party
May 03, 2021
#195 Fixing Elections w/ Louis Woods
Apr 26, 2021
#194 The Rise and Fall of the American Suburbs w/ Kyle Kiismandel
Apr 12, 2021
#193 Understanding the American Rescue Plan Act w/ Erlinda Doherty
Mar 22, 2021
#192 The History of Financial Bubbles w/ William Quinn
Mar 15, 2021
Gerd Schroth's Road from Child of Nazi Germany to American Citizen
Mar 01, 2021
#191 A Conversation with Ken Burns
Feb 15, 2021
#190 American Militias w/ Amy Cooter
Feb 08, 2021
#189 Space Lasers
Feb 01, 2021
#188 Why the 1776 Report Still Matters w/ John Fea
Jan 25, 2021
#187 The Insurrection Episode
Jan 18, 2021
#186 Dark Archives w/ Megan Rosenbloom
Jan 04, 2021
#185 Pragmatic History w/ Bill Scher
Dec 21, 2020
The History of Santa Claus and Christmas Culture w/ James Cooper (RTN #182 Rebroadcast)
Dec 07, 2020
#184 The President’s Cabinet w/ Lindsay Chervinsky
Nov 23, 2020
#183 The History of the Lumbee Indians w/ Malinda Maynor Lowery
Nov 09, 2020
Making the Call w/ Matt Negrin #1: Oh God What if He Claims Victory?!
Oct 30, 2020
# 182 The Story of North Carolina Popular Music w/ David Menconi (ft. guest co-host Dolph Ramseur)
Oct 19, 2020
Washington's Farewell Revisited w/ John Avlon
Oct 05, 2020
#181 More Questions than Answers
Sep 21, 2020
#180 The Transformation of American Policing w/ Stuart Schrader
Sep 07, 2020
#179 The Pursuit of Happiness w/ Ravi Patel
Aug 24, 2020
#178 The Facebook Catastrophe w/ Roger McNamee
Aug 10, 2020
#177 How the South Won the Civil War w/ Heather Cox Richardson
Jul 27, 2020
#176 Musical Chairs w/ Joe Kwon
Jul 13, 2020
I Can’t Breathe: Surviving the Dual Pandemics of Racism and Covid-19 w/ Louis Woods
Jun 29, 2020
#175 The Death of Expertise w/ Tom Nichols
Jun 22, 2020
#174 Direction w/ Michael Bonfiglio
Jun 15, 2020
#173 The South w/ Trae Crowder
Jun 01, 2020
#172 Fourth Anniversary Party
May 18, 2020
#171 Baseball in Context w/ Jayson Stark
May 11, 2020
#170 Soviet Soldiers and the Red Army in World War II w/ Brandon Schechter
May 04, 2020
# 169 The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached w/ Mark Doyle
Apr 27, 2020
Technology and the Mind w/ Nicholas Carr
Apr 20, 2020
#168 Breaking Down the 5G Conspiracy w/ Stacy Wood
Apr 13, 2020
#167 The Outbreak Narrative w/ Priscilla Wald
Apr 06, 2020
#166 Everything’s Going To Be Okay
Mar 30, 2020
#165 Saving America’s Cities w/ Lizabeth Cohen
Mar 23, 2020
#164 What('s) A Disaster
Mar 16, 2020
The History of Coal w/ Chuck Keeney
Mar 09, 2020
#163 The Avett Brothers Archive w/ Tim Mossberger
Feb 24, 2020
#162 The Presidents’ Day Rundown
Feb 17, 2020
#161 Food in the Era of Adulteration w/ Benjamin Cohen
Feb 10, 2020
#160 NASCAR and Moonshine w/ Kyle Petty and Dan Pierce (Recorded Live at the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, NC)
Feb 06, 2020
#159 The History of Charlotte, NC w/ Thomas Hanchett & Pam Kelley (Recorded Live at the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, NC)
Feb 03, 2020
#158 Live in Carrboro, NC- Charisma in American Politics & Society w/ Molly Worthen, Doug Heye & Rufus Edmisten (Recorded at Cat’s Cradle)
Jan 27, 2020
#157 The State of the Union w/ Matt Negrin
Jan 20, 2020
#156 Executive Boundaries
Jan 13, 2020
#155 Uncivil Christmas w/ Carson Hudson
Dec 23, 2019
#154 America's First War on Christmas w/ Bruce Carlson
Dec 16, 2019
#153 Floating Coast: The Environmental History of the Bering Strait w/ Bathsheba Demuth
Dec 02, 2019
#152 Building Community and Breaking Barriers w/ Digital Humanities (Recorded Live at ASEEES 2019)
Nov 25, 2019
#151 Live in Chicago w/ Pete Souza & Erin Welsh (recorded at Beverly Arts Center)
Nov 18, 2019
#150 Life on the Road
Nov 11, 2019
#149 The History of Hong Kong w/ Mindy Smith
Nov 04, 2019
# 148 The Bizarre Life of American Death w/ Caitlin Doughty
Oct 28, 2019
#147 How to Remove a Confederate Monument w/ Adam Swensek
Oct 21, 2019
#146 Keeping Government Secrets w/ Stacy Wood
Oct 14, 2019
#145 The Opioid Crisis w/ Beth Macy
Oct 07, 2019
The Seriousness of Being Funny w/ Tom Shadyac (Rebroadcast)
Sep 30, 2019
#144 Saudi Arabia and the Middle East w/ Sean Foley
Sep 23, 2019
#143 Research!
Sep 16, 2019
#142 How Talk Radio Took Over the Republican Party w/ Brian Rosenwald
Sep 09, 2019
#141 The Last Czars, Chernobyl, and the Pros & Cons of Dramatizing History w/ Philippa Hetherington & Jon Waterlow
Sep 02, 2019
#140 Citizen Coke: The History of Coca-Cola w/ Bartow Elmore
Aug 26, 2019
# 139 Healthcare, the Law and the Future(s) of Privacy w/ Roy Wyman
Aug 19, 2019
#138 The Power of Story (Live from NCSL's 2019 Legislative Summit)
Aug 12, 2019
RTN Theology #11 The Character of Virtue w/ Stanley Hauerwas
Jul 29, 2019
# 137 Making Fun of History: Creating Serious Games w/ Ben Sawyer
Jul 22, 2019
#136 The City of the Future: Apex, North Carolina
Jul 15, 2019
#136 The City of the Future: Apex, North Carolina
Jul 15, 2019
#135 Surrender in the American Civil War w/ David Silkenat
Jul 08, 2019
#134 The American Empire w/ Daniel Immerwahr
Jul 01, 2019
RTN Theology 10: The Life & Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jun 24, 2019
Life, Beer & Politics w/ Gov. John Hickenlooper (Rebroadcast)
Jun 21, 2019
#133 Bonnaroo Past & Present w/ festival co-founder Ashley Capps (live from Bonnaroo)
Jun 16, 2019
#132 In the Footsteps of Lafayette w/ Julien Icher
Jun 10, 2019
#131 Photographing the President w/ Pete Souza
Jun 03, 2019
#130 Sources, Methods & Music w/ Robert Costa
May 28, 2019
#129 RTN Third Anniversary Party w/ Matt Negrin
May 20, 2019
#128 A Frail League of Friendship: The Articles of Confederation w/ Greg Jackson
May 06, 2019
RTN Theology #9: Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity w/ Miguel De La Torre
Apr 29, 2019
#127 The History of Privacy in Modern America w/ Sarah Igo
Apr 22, 2019
#126 The Origins of American Immigration Policy w/ Hidetaka Hirota
Apr 08, 2019
RTN Voices #1: The Life & Times of Rufus Allan Sevier (RTN April Fools Episode)
Apr 01, 2019
RTN Theology #8 Elizabeth Seton and Catholics in Early America w/ Catherine O'Donnell
Mar 25, 2019
#125 When the Irish Invaded Canada w/ Chris Klein
Mar 18, 2019
#124 Political Coalitions from 1990 to 2019 w/ Amy Walter
Mar 11, 2019
#123 How to Tell a Good Story w/ Jakob Lewis
Mar 04, 2019
#122 The Arctic w/ Heidi Bohaker & Alison Smith
Feb 25, 2019
RTN Theology #7 Remembering Walter B. Jones: Living by Faith and by Truth
Feb 18, 2019
#121 Gender and History w/ Lisa Fine
Feb 11, 2019
#120 The History of Influenza w/ John Barry
Feb 04, 2019
#119 Karl Marx and History
Jan 28, 2019
#118 The GI Bill and the Legacy of Racial Discrimination w/ Louis Woods
Jan 21, 2019
#117 American Slavery w/ Edward Baptist
Jan 14, 2019
#116 What is the Middle Class? w/ Scott Wasserman
Jan 07, 2019
#115 The 1970s w/ Jefferson Cowie
Dec 17, 2018
#114 Making the Government Talk: US Covert Operations and Freedom of Information w/ Peter Kornbluh
Dec 10, 2018
#113 War on the Banana Skin
Dec 03, 2018
#112 The Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Modern Middle East w/ Eugene Rogan
Nov 19, 2018
#23.2 Felon Disfranchisement and Citizenship in the US w/ Pippa Holloway (w/ update)
Nov 12, 2018
#111 Dvořák in America w/ Matt Negrin
Nov 05, 2018
#110 Gerry Adams and the Global Road to Peace
Oct 29, 2018
RTN Theology #6 The Road to Hope? The Challenges of Faith in Politics
Oct 22, 2018
#109 Presidential Impeachment w/ Jeffrey Engel
Oct 15, 2018
#108 From Scunthorpe to Brooklyn w/ The Ruen Brothers
Oct 08, 2018
#107 Laughing at Stalin: The Politics of Humor w/ Jon Waterlow
Oct 01, 2018
#106 Why You Should Vote w/ Andy Bernstein
Sep 24, 2018
RTN Theology #5 Jeremy Begbie on Theology Of And Through the Arts
Sep 17, 2018
#105 Charlie Cook on the 2018 Midterm Elections
Sep 10, 2018
#104 Bill Plante & Olivier Knox on Journalism and Politics (live at Glover Park Group)
Aug 22, 2018
#103 How the American Dream Became Temporary w/ Louis Hyman
Aug 20, 2018
#102 Stand Up Comedy and Los Angeles w/ Pat Reilly
Aug 13, 2018
#101 Nativism in American Politics w/ David Bennett
Jul 30, 2018
#100 RTN One Hundred
Jul 23, 2018
RTN Theology #4: Kutter Callaway on Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms
Jul 16, 2018
BONUS: Elvis Presley & America (from My History Can Beat Up Your Politics)
Jul 09, 2018
#99 The History & Politics of the World Cup w/ Alex Galarza & Matt Negrin
Jun 18, 2018
#33 Jim Cornette on the History of Professional Wrestling
Jun 11, 2018
#98 Dwight Eisenhower & US Foreign Intervention in the 1950s w/ William Hitchcock
Jun 04, 2018
#97 Songs of Social Justice w/ Governor Martin O’Malley
May 28, 2018
#96 Tyler Mahan Coe on Podcasting the History of Country Music
May 21, 2018
#95 Tom Marshall on Writing Phish and Everything Else
May 14, 2018
#94 This Episode Kills Fascists: The Life & Legacy of Woody Guthrie w/ Deana McCloud
May 07, 2018
#93 Woodrow Wilson & Presidential Morality w/ Patricia O’Toole
Apr 30, 2018
Catching Up: Sean Foley on Syria and the Middle East
Apr 27, 2018
#92 The History of the Armenian Genocide w/ Ronald Suny
Apr 23, 2018
#91 The History of Satire and the American Political Cartoon w/ Richard Samuel West
Apr 16, 2018
#90 The History of the Cherokee Nation w/ John Sedgwick
Apr 09, 2018
#40 The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. w/ Clayborne Carson
Apr 02, 2018
RTN Theology #3: A Conversation with Kate Bowler
Mar 26, 2018
#89 The GOP and Tax Reform Revisited w/ Brian Riedl
Mar 19, 2018
#88 Taxation, the Great Depression, and the GOP Tax Reform w/ Robert McElvaine
Mar 12, 2018
#87 All Roads Lead to Douglas Brinkley
Mar 05, 2018
#86 William McKinley and the Republican Party with Robert Merry
Feb 19, 2018
#85 The History of US-Mexican Relations w/ Bruce Carlson (Recorded Live in Riviera Maya, Mexico)
Feb 05, 2018
#84 America’s Forgotten War: The War of 1812 w/ Don Hickey
Jan 22, 2018
#83 Foreign Policy in American History w/ Joyce Kaufman
Jan 08, 2018
#81 The History of Coffee w/ Mark Pendergrast
Dec 11, 2017
RTN Theology #1: The Intersection of Christianity & Culture in the United States ft. James K.A. Smith
Dec 07, 2017
#80 Navajo Code Talkers, Pocahontas, & Native American History w/ Ashley Riley Sousa
Nov 30, 2017
#47 The History of Christianity w/ Molly Worthen (Rebroadcast)
Nov 23, 2017
#79 The Russian Revolution w/ Lewis Siegelbaum
Nov 16, 2017
#78 The French Revolution w/ Peter McPhee
Nov 09, 2017
#77 Martin Luther & the Reformation with Donald Fortson
Oct 30, 2017
#76 History of American Cemeteries with Tanya Marsh
Oct 23, 2017
#75 William Walker, Historical Markers, and (Re)Writing History
Oct 16, 2017
#72 Coffee With The Avett Brothers
Sep 25, 2017
#71 Gerd Schroth on Life as a Child of Nazi Germany, Refugee, Immigrant, And Now, American Citizen
Sep 18, 2017
#69 Lance Armstrong on Moving Forward Without Forgetting the Past
Sep 04, 2017
#68 The Politics of Immigration in American History with Andrew Gyory
Aug 28, 2017
#66 Charles Darwin and American History w/ Randall Fuller
Aug 14, 2017
#65 The History of Early America w/ Liz Covart
Aug 07, 2017
#64 The History of Oil w/ Paul Roberts
Jul 31, 2017
#63 The History of Green Energy w/ Alexis Madrigal
Jul 24, 2017
#62 Nuclear Energy w/ Jim Clarke and Steve Krahn
Jul 17, 2017
#61 The History of Coal w/ Chuck Keeney
Jul 10, 2017
#59 The History of World War I w/ Mitchell Yockelson
May 15, 2017
#58 The History of North Korea w/ Sheena Greitens
May 08, 2017
#57 Margaret Talev on the White House Press Corps
May 04, 2017
#56 The History of the Harlem Globetrotters w/ Ben Green
May 01, 2017
#55 Neil Hanson on the Mignonette & Everything Else
Apr 24, 2017
#54 The (After)Life of James K. Polk w/ Tom Price
Apr 17, 2017
#53 The History of Syria w/ Sean Foley
Apr 13, 2017
#52 Douglas Brinkley on Bob Dylan, John Kennedy, & the Rise of the American Individual
Apr 10, 2017
#51 The History of Golf w/ Tony Parker
Apr 03, 2017
#50 Ambassador Jack Matlock on Diplomacy & US-Russian Relations
Mar 28, 2017
#49 The History of Technology w/ Nicholas Carr
Mar 20, 2017
#47 The History of Christianity in America w/ Molly Worthen
Mar 06, 2017
#46 Martin Van Buren & the Age of Jackson w/ Mark Cheathem
Feb 27, 2017
#45 Bruce Carlson on Presidential History
Feb 20, 2017
#44 The History of NASCAR w/ Kyle Petty
Feb 13, 2017
#43 The History of the Democratic Party w/ Bruce Schulman
Feb 05, 2017
#42 The History of National Parks w/ Jon Jarvis
Jan 30, 2017
#41 The History of Health Insurance w/ Melissa Thomasson
Jan 23, 2017
#40 The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. w/ Clayborne Carson
Jan 15, 2017
#38 The History of the Republican Party w/ Heather Cox Richardson
Jan 09, 2017
#37 NASA, Warren G. Harding, Daylight Saving, & Political Parties (Listener Q&A)
Jan 02, 2017
#36 Family, History, and Possibilities w/ Turner Simkins
Dec 26, 2016
#35 Jimmy Carter & US Foreign Relations w/ Nancy Mitchell
Dec 18, 2016
#34 Tom Shadyac on the Seriousness of Being Funny
Dec 12, 2016
#33 Jim Cornette on the History of Pro Wrestling
Dec 05, 2016
#32 Tolerance and Faith in American Politics w/ Jimmy Williams
Nov 28, 2016
#30 The Origins of Conservative Talk Radio w/ Brian Rosenwald
Nov 21, 2016
#29 The History of Putin's Russia w/ Arch Getty
Nov 14, 2016
#28 The History of Presidential Elections w/ Bruce Carlson
Nov 07, 2016
#27 Matt Negrin & Alexander Trowbridge on Campaign Surrogates and Presidential Elections
Nov 03, 2016
#25 The History of Country & Soul Music w/ Charles Hughes
Oct 23, 2016
#24 The History of the New Deal w/ Jefferson Cowie
Oct 17, 2016
#23 The History of Voting Rights w/ Pippa Holloway
Oct 09, 2016
#21 The History of Hollywood and Politics w/ Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Sep 25, 2016
#20 Presidential Debate Extravaganza!
Sep 19, 2016
#19 Sir Alan Meale on the Brexit, the Labor Party, and the Recent Political History of the United Kingdom
Sep 13, 2016
#18 The History of the Internet w/ Bradley Fidler
Sep 05, 2016
#17 The History of US-Central American Relations w/ Carlos Aleman
Aug 03, 2016
#13 Scott Avett and the Road to Now
Aug 02, 2016
#12 Hillary's Emails & the History of Government Documents w/ Stacy Wood
Jul 26, 2016
#7 The History of Denver and the Wild West w/ Dick Kreck
Jun 22, 2016
#6 Governor John Hickenlooper on His Life in Beer and Politics
Jun 16, 2016
#5 Native American Culture and History w/ Tara Houska and Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Jun 09, 2016
#4 The History of Charlotte & the Rise of the New South City w/ Thomas Hanchett
Jun 06, 2016
#3 On the Media w/ Alexander Trowbridge & Matt Negrin
May 19, 2016
#1 Welcome to the Road to Now
May 19, 2016