The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War

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The Know Nothing Party: The History and Legacy of America’s Most Notorious Nativist Political Party

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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

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American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s

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Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson

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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations

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The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89: Fourth Edition

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The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution

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The Union War

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Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America

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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War

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America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation

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War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918

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African Americans in the Revolutionary War

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Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the post-Cold War Era 1st Edition

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The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943-1948

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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free

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The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era

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How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump

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Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

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The Shattering: America in the 1960s

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1946: The Making of the Modern World

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The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction

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The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

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Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades

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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace

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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath

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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

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Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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The Book of Charlie

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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1776

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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The Untold History of the United States

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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Up From Slavery

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

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300 Vast Early America: What do historians wish more people better understood about early American history and why do they wish people had that better understanding? In celebration of the 300th episode of Ben Franklin’s World, we posed these questions to more than 30...

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What Will Become of Syria in 2023? Joby Warrick on the Future of a Catastrophe: JIn this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the Washington Post's Pulitzer prize winning journalist and Syria expert Toby Warrick on the chances for a peaceful solution to the Syrian civil war in 2023.

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The Essential Kerner Commission Report: In 1968, the Kerner Commission wrote, "white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto." Here's how they reached a conclusion that still rings true today.

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Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022): An interview with Jefferson Cowie

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US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till: The brutal murder of black teenager Emmett Till appalled America, and added fuel to the fledgling civil rights movement. Experts Devery Anderson and Adriane Lentz-Smith revisit the event

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How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?: Serhii Plokhy discusses the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and reveals just how close the world came to nuclear disaster.

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Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption" (Cambridge UP, 2020): An interview with Yuen Yuen Ang

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580: The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy with Robert P. Jones: Data indicates that white supremacy is growing in popularity, and according to FBI statistics hate crimes have spiked by 35 percent in recent years. Why can’t America shake itself free from white supremacy? The president and founder of Public...

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Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash: Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kate Masur notes how—in the face of evolving, post-slavery white supremacy—Black people claimed...

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EP 195 Michael R.J. Bonner on Civilization, Collapse, and Renewal: Jim talks with Michael R.J. Bonner about the ideas in his book In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present. 

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173 Marisa Fuentes, Colonial Port Cities and Slavery: The histories of early North America and the Caribbean are intimately intertwined. The same European empires we encounter in our study of early America also appear in the Caribbean. The colonies of these respective empires often traded goods, people,...

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The Secret History of Nuclear War

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Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor: Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congressional Republicans radically altered the direction of Reconstruction. The Act invalidated the reconstituted Southern legislatures, establishing five military districts in the South and insisting upon black suffrage as a condition to readmission. The eventful year 1868 saw the impeachment of one president (Andrew Johnson) and the election of another (Ulysses S. Grant). Meanwhile, southern African Americans struggle to reap the promises of freedom in the face of economic disempowerment and a committed campaign of white supremacist violence. Transcript Lecture Page

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Shadi Hamid: Is There a Problem of Democracy in the Middle East? Or Is the Problem With an American Misunderstanding of “Democracy”?: In conversation with Andrew Keen

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Nina Simone, Lena Horne and more black female performers who sang their civil rights: From Ella Baker to Abbey Lincoln, Lena Horne to Dorothy Height, let's get to know women central to the civil rights movement. Some preferred staying behind-the-scenes, others performed their civil rights on stage and screen. Then we bring the conversatio

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Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic" (Stanford UP, 2019): Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...

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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Silicon Valley Bank is dead. The institution that was a major financier for venture capitalists, tech start-ups and other Silicon Valley outfits has collapsed. Enter: the federal government.

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Native Peoples and Redefining U.S. History: Sharing audio from a recent America’s Town Hall program about new takes on the history of Indigenous peoples in America

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How to Stop A Civil War: Jeffrey Goldberg, Danielle Allen, and Adam Serwer discuss how America is coming apart—and how they think it can be reunited.

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Behind the panic in white, Christian America

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G. John Ikenberry on Liberal Internationalism

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Lincoln on Infrastructure: Known in history for his role in ending slavery and prosecuting the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's most important issue in his time as an elected official was infrastructure. And in that, he was little different than his pioneer constituents. In this episode, we talk about Lincoln's roots, his arguments countering objections to improvement projects (that have relevance today), and how it shaped slavery and other political issues of his time.

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How the Police Became Untouchable

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297 Claudio Saunt, Indian Removal Act of 1830: The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the Caribbean, wanting land for farms and settlement so they found ways to acquire lands from indigenous peoples by...

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Lecture 25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877": This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction. Professor Blight begins with an account the Colfax Massacre. Colfax, Louisiana was the sight of the largest mass murder in U.S. history, when a white mob killed dozens of African Americans in the April of 1873. Two Supreme Court decisions would do in the judicial realm what the Colfax Massacre had done in the political. On the same day as the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court offered a narrow reading of the 14th Amendment in the Slaughterhouse cases, signaling a judicial retreat from the radicalism of the early Reconstruction years. The Cruikshank case, two years later, would overturn the convictions of the only three men sentenced for their involvement in Colfax, and marked another step away from reconstruction. Professor Blight concludes with the Panic of 1873 and the seemi

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The Other 9/11 with Roberto Navarrete and John McEvoy

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Danny Haiphong, "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence" (Skyhorse, 2019): According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history...

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The American Ideal: Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.

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The American Ideal: Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the ideals that underwrite the idealism of America.

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How politics became a war against reality: Peter Pomerantsev on modern propaganda, post-truth politics, and the authoritarian resurgence