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Past Present

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Cynthia Greenlee, Neil J. Young, and Nicole Hemmer, editors.

Created in 2015 by historians Natalia Mehlman Petrzela. Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer, Past Present is a weekly conversational podcast that turns hindsight into foresight. Going beyond Twitter hot takes and cable news sound bites, we think that every headline has a history – and every listener is a historian.

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Quarantines
March 17, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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Plastic Bag Bans
March 10, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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Fat Activism
March 3, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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COVID-19 and Protective Face Masks
February 25, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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A Proposal to “Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”
February 18, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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The 2020 Iowa Caucuses
February 11, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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Moderate Republicans
February 4, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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Little Women
January 28, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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Jeopardy!
January 21, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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The Australian Bushfires
January 14, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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U.S. Embassy Attack in Baghdad
January 7, 2020Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young
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The Precarious Labor of the Fitpro
December 16, 2019Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

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