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Arise, Ye Workers From Your Slumbers

Episode 68: A conversation with Maurice Isserman about American radicalism, past and present, and his new book, Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism

February 19, 2025 • by Claire Potter

For years now, those of us who are paying attention have heard a range of political positions, from those held by moderate Democrats to socialism, described by MAGA Republicans as something called “the Left.” Sometimes “the Left” is simply invoked by the shorthand “they,” as in: “They tried to assassinate ...

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The Great American Crack-Up

Episode 67: Julian Zelizer asks us to reimagine political division as a good thing in a conversation about his new book, In Defense of Partisanship

February 10, 2025 • by Claire Potter

Back in 2016, like about a million other fans, I was listening obsessively to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway show, Hamilton: An American Musical. Unlike a lot of stage-door Johnnies, I am a historian of the United States. So, when my friend and colleague Renée Romano called to suggest we edit a collection ...

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How We Fight

Epidosde 64: A conversation with Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about why the campaign for reproductive justice is also a struggle for our collective future

December 4, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Why Now? host Claire Potter interviews Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about abortion in the United States today....

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To The Constitution, With Love

Episode 63: A conversation with historian Mary Ellen Curtain about her book She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics

November 20, 2024 • by Claire Potter

In the summer of 1974, I was glued to the television for most of the day. For the first time in my life, my parents didn’t insist that I shut it off, go outside—do something useful. That was Watergate Summer, the weeks that a national drama played out all day on ...

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We Shall Not Be Moved

Episode 62: David Greenberg on nonviolent resistance, the legacy of an iconic civil rights organizer, and his new book, John Lewis: A Life

November 4, 2024 • by Claire Potter

There is no question that Donald Trump, a former President who is on the ballot next Tuesday, November 5, is not only a man in love with violence, but one who also understands violence as a way to get what he wants. On May 1, 1989, Trump took out a ...

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How the GOP Killed Dissent

Episode 61: Marsha E. Barrett on her new book, Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism

October 24, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Ana Navarro is probably best known for her work on the popular daytime talk show, The View. But she also has serious chops as a Republican political strategist. She served on Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s staff—you may recall that Bush was leveled by Donald J. Trump early in the 2016 ...

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Dancing in Purgatory With Devon Walker-Figueroa

Episode 16: “Silences are as carefully plotted as each syllable”

October 11, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 16 of Multi-Verse, Devon Walker-Figueroa reads her poem “Private Lessons,” in which a dying man determines that his young pupil must become a prima ballerina, and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the uses of silence, breaking Dante’s rhyme scheme, and what it means to be haunted ...

Dancing in Purgatory With Devon Walker-Figueroa

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When We Lose, We Win

Episode 60: Talking with historian Brenda Wineapple about civil rights, culture wars, the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” trial and her new book, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted A Nation

October 10, 2024 • by Claire Potter

In 2016, white evangelical Christians showed up at the polls in force for Donald J. Trump, part of a diverse movement that defied expectations to sweep him into the White House. In the past decade, scholars and journalists have spilled a lot of ink on what seemed initially like a ...

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Before Kamala, There Was Shyamala

Episode 59: A conversation with Clara Bingham about American feminism and Bingham’s new book, The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963–1973

September 23, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Before Vice President Kamala Devi Harris, there was Hillary Clinton—also, Jeannette Rankin, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Geraldine Ferraro, Patsy Mink, Margaret Chase Smith, Nikki Haley, Carol Mosely Braun, and dozens of other women “firsts” in politics. Most importantly, there was a woman who never ran for office, who most of us ...

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Picturing Asian America

Episode 58: Historian Mae Ngai on Corky Lee’s photographs of Asian American life

September 6, 2024 • by Claire Potter

On July 23, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris reached the threshold of Democratic National Convention delegates that she needed to become the party’s de facto presidential nominee. In the two days since President Joe Biden had ceded the nomination, a diverse party had become re-energized around the 2024 race and ...

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Philip Metres’s Nostalgia

Episode 15: “Here I am, in midlife, thinking about what is home—and knowing that all homes are sandcastles, in a way”

July 2, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

An oasis, as poet Philip Metres points out in Episode 15, is evanescent by nature. There, and then not there. What does it mean to seek refuge when the oasis is impermanent?...

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The Ten-Dollar Founding Father

Episode 55: Historian William Hogeland on Alexander Hamilton, debt, taxes, visionaries, and his new book, The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding

June 5, 2024 • by Claire Potter

There is so much in William Hogeland's book, whether you are a Hamilton fan, love the complexity of Early America, or (and I know some of you are out there) whether you are just a finance nerd and think nonstop about the national debt....

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Arise, Ye Workers From Your Slumbers

Episode 68: A conversation with Maurice Isserman about American radicalism, past and present, and his new book, Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism

The Great American Crack-Up

Episode 67: Julian Zelizer asks us to reimagine political division as a good thing in a conversation about his new book, In Defense of Partisanship

How We Fight

Epidosde 64: A conversation with Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about why the campaign for reproductive justice is also a struggle for our collective future

To The Constitution, With Love

Episode 63: A conversation with historian Mary Ellen Curtain about her book She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics

We Shall Not Be Moved

Episode 62: David Greenberg on nonviolent resistance, the legacy of an iconic civil rights organizer, and his new book, John Lewis: A Life

How the GOP Killed Dissent

Episode 61: Marsha E. Barrett on her new book, Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism

Dancing in Purgatory With Devon Walker-Figueroa

Episode 16: “Silences are as carefully plotted as each syllable”

When We Lose, We Win

Episode 60: Talking with historian Brenda Wineapple about civil rights, culture wars, the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” trial and her new book, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted A Nation

Before Kamala, There Was Shyamala

Episode 59: A conversation with Clara Bingham about American feminism and Bingham’s new book, The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963–1973

Picturing Asian America

Episode 58: Historian Mae Ngai on Corky Lee’s photographs of Asian American life

Philip Metres’s Nostalgia

Episode 15: “Here I am, in midlife, thinking about what is home—and knowing that all homes are sandcastles, in a way”

The Ten-Dollar Founding Father

Episode 55: Historian William Hogeland on Alexander Hamilton, debt, taxes, visionaries, and his new book, The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding

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