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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
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
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
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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Typewriter Combat

Episode 54: A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals

May 23, 2024 • by
A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, "Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals"...

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Typewriter Combat
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Nobody Else Has My Eyes

Episode 53: A conversation with Nell Irvin Painter about her new book, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

April 30, 2024 • by
Episode 53: A conversation with Nell Irvin Painter about her new book, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays...

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Nobody Else Has My Eyes
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Goodbye, Beaver Cleaver

Episode 52: A conversation with historian Becky Nicolaides about The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945

April 19, 2024 • by
A conversation with historian Becky Nicolaides about her new book, The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945...

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Goodbye, Beaver Cleaver
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MAGA Is the Newest, and Oldest, American Myth

Episode 51: A conversation with American Studies scholar Richard Slotkin about his new book, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

April 12, 2024 • by
Slotkin examines the history of the two Americas that exist side-by-side today, with their clashing and common myths, two American cultures that will meet at the ballot box in November 2024 to decide the fate of American democracy....

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MAGA Is the Newest, and Oldest, American Myth
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Who Do You Love?

Episode 50: A conversation with Neil J. Young about Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right

March 28, 2024 • by
Battling detractors on their left and homophobia to their right, gay Republicans have nevertheless played power politics for over 80 years....

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Who Do You Love?
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