Skipped History
By Ben Tumin
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Interviews with top historians about their latest work. Mainly educational, often funny. Conveniently, most of the jokes are about people too far underground to punch back.
Hosted by Ben Tumin, creator of the NYT-profiled Skipped History web series.
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The Longest American War You've Never Heard Of — and Why It Sounds Familiar
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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"New Terms. Same Bones." — The Origins of Great Replacement Theory
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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The Two Coups That Created America's Regime Change Addiction
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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The Remarkable Thing Is that It Took This Long for Crisis to Come
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Ground Zero for Being Told Up is Down: The Bernie Goetz Shootings
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Life Before, During, and After Cars
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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How the U.S. Exploited Venezuela's Oil Dependence
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Preparing for Peace by Preparing for Nuclear War
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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The Founders Wanted to Tax the Rich
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Jelani Cobb on Jamaica High, Trayvon Martin, and How We Got Here
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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How Bacon's Rebellion Invented Race in the U.S.
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Why Malcolm X Said It Was "Already Too Late" in 1965
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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A Brief—and All Too Topical—History of Free Speech
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Why Talk About The Power Broker in 2025
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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How Insurance Companies Profited from the Burning of the Bronx
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Indigenous Identity and Belonging on Martha’s Vineyard
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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From Lincoln to Fox News: A History of Hoaxes and Conspiratorial Thinking
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Some Thoughts on the Epstein Files
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The Founders Didn’t Worship the Founding
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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What James Baldwin and 1963 Teach Us About Building Consensus Today
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The Americas: A History of Two Moral Visions
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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It's Time We Learned About the Einstein of Sex
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May 23, 2025 |
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Learning from the Last Land Rushes
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May 16, 2025 |
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In Search of Accountability for Native Boarding Schools
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May 02, 2025 |
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The Racist History Beneath Our Roads
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Three Paths Left Through the Planetary Crisis
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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The Troubling Questions at the Heart of the Study of Slavery
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Red Scare Sounds a Little Too Familiar
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Measles, Plagues, and How “Knowledge Isn’t The Problem”
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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A Historian Dives Into Her Family History — and Wonders If Maybe You Should, Too
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Unreconciled Dispute Between New York and Boston
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The 18-Year-Old Who Won Us the Right to Protest
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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A Forgotten Case of White Reparations
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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There's an Argument for Abolishing Schools
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Explaining the Obsession with the Panama Canal
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Avoiding the “American Solution” in the Middle East—At All Costs
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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The Southwest’s Lessons for Our Dry Future
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The Rise and Fall of the Freedman’s Bank
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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A Cartoonist is Keeping Organizing at the Forefront
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Drawing on John Lewis’ Example
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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How We Got Here — and How We Begin to Get Out of Here
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Voting Like Your Life Depends On It
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Catching Up to a Cherokee and Muscogee Understanding of the Government
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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A History of Living in Harm’s Way on the Gulf
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Digging Ourselves Out of a Giant Gun Hole
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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A Brief Environmental History of the World, Told Through Food
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Israel’s Reliance on the Greatest Powers in World History
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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The Origins of the Assault on Public Education
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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It's Not a Period — It's a Kamala
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Correcting the Invisibility of LatinoLand
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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The DNC: Change or More of the Same?
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Awakening of Chicago’s Political Consciousness
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Holding on to Hope that Kamala Will Be Different
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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The Right Has Been Weird for a Long Time
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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The Early Olympics and a Century-Long Obsession with Gender
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Learning from the Many Missteps Along the Mississippi
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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The Democrats Have Shot Themselves in the Foot Before
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The Question at the Core of the Debate Last Night
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Indigenous Belonging and the Swamp Forests of North Carolina
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Violence Isn’t the Answer — Or Is It?
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Oligarchy and US-Sponsored War in El Salvador
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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It’s Time to Take DARE a Little More Seriously
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May 24, 2024 |
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The Myth that Jewish Bankers Secretly Run the World
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May 17, 2024 |
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The Cancerous Growth of a Neoliberal War Machine
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May 10, 2024 |
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Why Universities Crack Down on Protestors
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Urban Native America, and How Europeans Got It So, So Wrong
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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The History of (Not) Paying Your Taxes
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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The Way-Too-Vibrant History of American Illiberalism
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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The Goodies, the Baddies, and the Baggies: U.S. Disaster Relief Since 1812
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Why Choosing to Have Kids Feels Harder Than Ever
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The Most Powerful Narco-State You’ve Never Heard Of
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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The Improbable Path to Curing Tuberculosis
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Rise and Fall of the “Gay Gene”
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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When the Government Kind of Almost Confiscated Guns
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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To Defeat Fascism in 2024, Get Creative
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The NYPD and Policing's "Small Toolkit"
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Invention of Contemporary Thanksgiving
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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The Fading Lessons of the Crack Epidemic
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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The Chilling History of the AR-15
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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"Awakening the Ashes" of Anti-colonialism
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Urgent Lessons for the Next Generation of Protesters
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Enslaved Women Who Fought Back
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Recentering American History with Michael Harriot
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Why Labor’s Cause is Eternal
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Plunder and Resistance in the Old Northwest
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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The Diversity of Eastern Europe—and Ukraine
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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The History of America's Fitness Obsession
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The Rise of Cable News
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Tragedy and Redemption of Bald Eagles
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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How the right-wing “fringe engulfed the center”
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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"The Myth of Milk as Superfood"
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The Amnesia of Empire with Sathnam Sanghera
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The "Frankenstein" History of Student Loans
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May 26, 2023 |
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150 Years of "Zero-Sum Thinking" on Immigration
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May 12, 2023 |
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The Consumer Expectations that Southern Corporations Built
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May 05, 2023 |
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Tracing the Spread of "Free Market Fundamentalism"
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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We must "dream bigger" about jails
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Palo Alto, “Laboratory for the Construction of Whiteness”
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The "Surreal" SCOTUS Case on Indian Adoptions
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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“The prison of gender” with Professor Lillian Faderman
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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The Still Vengeful Texas Counter-Revolution of 1836
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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The Incompetent, Overzealous History of Government Secrecy
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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The "singular and emblematic" history of Tuskegee with Dr. Brian Jones
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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The "Always Unfinished" Professionalization of the Police
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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“The beginning of the culture wars” with Professor Ed Larson
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Professor Michael Kazin on the Turbulent History of American Socialism
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Professor Stephen Nissenbaum on Santa Claus’ Elitist Origins
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The 1950s Dog Dads Responsible for Voter Fraud Claims Today
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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The Secret Genesis of Corporations’ Political Dominance
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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How Corporate Executives Quietly Shaped the Pledge of Allegiance
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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How the Book of Mormon Inspired the "Termination" of Native American Tribes
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 (Part 2)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 (Part 1)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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How a Racist, Sexist "Thesis" Inspired US Interventions Abroad
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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The US-backed Contra War & the Rise of Private Military Companies
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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The 1979 Greensboro Massacre
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The 1965 Military Coup in Indonesia
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May 20, 2021 |
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The 1953 US-Led Coup in Iran
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May 06, 2021 |
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The Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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The US decision to occupy the Philippines in 1898
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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The 1954 US-Backed Coup in Guatemala
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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How Two Brothers Tried to Start a Civil War in Indonesia
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Mar 11, 2021 |