The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

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The Untold History of the United States

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America's Forgotten History: Part Three: A Progressive Empire: America’s Forgotten History, #3

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"What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America

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The Wages of War: When America's Soldiers Came Home: From Valley Forge to Vietnam

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The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–1951

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The Soul of America: Essays on the 4Th of July

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The Untold History of the United States, Volume 2: Young Readers Edition, 1945-1962

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers

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The Sixties: From Memory to History

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Dallas '63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House

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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

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The Untold History of the United States, Volume 1: Young Readers Edition, 1898-1945

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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

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FDR's Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos

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Liberty and Union

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THE AMERICAN MANIFESTO

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Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

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Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

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America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations: America’s Forgotten History, #1

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The Growth and Collapse of One American Nation: The Early Republic 1790 - 1861: The Early Republic 1790-1861

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Dancing on the Edge of the Widening Gyre: A History of Our Times

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Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy

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One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History

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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

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America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

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Beyond Patriotism: From Truman to Obama

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The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

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The Twentieth Century: A People's History

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Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century

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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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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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

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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

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

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A People's History of the United States

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1776

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

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Summary of The Fourth Turning: by William Strauss & Neil Howe - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny - A Comprehensive Summary

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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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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The Library Book

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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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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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The Fifties

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

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The White Album: Essays

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught in School: There are few periods of U.S. history that are as vigorously debated, as emotionally and civically charged as the American Revolution. And for good reason: How Americans interpret that period — its heroes, its villains, its legacy — shapes how we understand our social foundations, our national identity, our shared political project. Woody Holton is a historian at the University of South Carolina, a leading scholar of America’s founding and the author of numerous books on the period, including, most recently, “Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution.” Holton’s work presents a fundamental challenge to the version of the American Revolution that most of us were taught in grade school. In his telling, America’s “founding fathers” were far less central to the country’s founding than we imagine. Class conflict was just as important a cause of the Revolution as aspirational ideals, if not more. And the way

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Best Of: A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings: It’s hard to think of a more celebrated figure of the 20th century than Martin Luther King Jr. He has a national memorial in Washington, D.C. His birthday is one of just 11 federal holidays. His words and legacy are routinely evoked by politicians of both major parties. I would go as far as to say he should be considered one of America’s founding fathers, which is one reason why I wanted to revisit this episode on Independence Day. But the paradox of King’s legacy is that while many revere him, very few actually read him. Most of us can cite a handful of his most famous quotes, but King’s actual teachings span five books, countless speeches and sermons, and years of detailed correspondence. There’s perhaps no scholar working today who studies Dr. King’s political philosophy as deeply as Brandon Terry. Terry is the John L. Loeb associate professor of social sciences at Harvard, where he specializes in Black p

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Norman Eisen’s love letter to democracy: As we’ve previously discussed, there are a lot of books about democracy filling book store and library shelves right now. Norman Eisen could have written a book in the vein of Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky’s How Democracies Die or David Frum’s Trumpocracy, but chose to go in a different direction. In The Last Palace, he tells the … Continue reading Norman Eisen’s love letter to democracy →

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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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Meghan Daum On The Culture Wars, The Pandemic, And Facing Death

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Sohrab Ahmari On The Failures Of Liberalism

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A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings: It’s hard to think of a more celebrated figure of the 20th century than Martin Luther King Jr. He has a national memorial in Washington, D.C. His birthday is one of just 11 federal holidays. And his words and legacy are routinely evoked by politicians of both major parties. But the paradox of King’s legacy is that while many revere him, very few actually read him. Most of us can cite a handful of his most famous quotes, but King’s actual teachings span five books, countless speeches and sermons, and years of detailed correspondence. There’s perhaps no scholar working today who studies Dr. King’s political philosophy as deeply as Brandon Terry. Terry is the John L. Loeb associate professor of social sciences at Harvard, where he specializes in Black political thought. He is the co-editor of “To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” the editor of “Fifty Years Since MLK,” and

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Donald Trump Didn’t Hijack the G.O.P. He Understood It.: Right now, Republicans of all stripes — Ron DeSantis, J.D. Vance, Mike Pence, Glenn Youngkin — are trying to figure out how to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning political message. The struggle to achieve such a synthesis is the defining project on the American right today. Its outcome will determine the future of the Republican Party — and American politics. To understand what the post-Trump future of the G.O.P. will look like, it helps to have a clearer understanding of the party’s past — particularly the chapters that many conservatives prefer to forget. Traditional histories of American conservatism view Donald Trump’s election as an aberration in the lineage of the American right — an unprecedented populist rejection of the conservatism of Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr. But Matthew Continetti’s new book “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” flips that conventional h

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Arguing the World: Howe, Kristol, Glazer, and Bell [Teaser]: Matt and Sam watch the wonderful 1998 documentary "Arguing the World" — and go deep on Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer.

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Joseph J. Ellis, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright, 2021): An interview with Joseph J. Ellis

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Sean Wilentz: On the Importance of Studying and Debating American History

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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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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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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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Kmele Foster On Individualism, Equity, Neoracism

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Align yourself with the trajectory of the world: John Adams famous wrote to his wife Abigail in the year 1780: “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. . . in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, and music. . .

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JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism

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Decline Helps To Propel Us Forward: We welcomed a truly important thinker onto the podcast this week. Walter Russell Mead joined us to discuss his latest book . Many critics of American foreign policy have long pointed to our long-standing relationship with Israel as proof of the power...

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Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Kermit Roosevelt III

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Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Kermit Roosevelt III

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141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union: The provocative thesis of is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn’t...

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James Kirchick: The Hidden History of Gay Washington: Join us for a talk with author James Kirchick and the story that could transform our understanding of American history.

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Episode 216 Joseph Milteer And The Radical Right Wing of America The Civil Rights Movement Part 3 The Freedom Rides and More

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How Does the U.S. Exercise Power Around the World?

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The Freeing of the American Mind: Free minds. Freedom fries. Free speech. The Freedom Caucus. Freedom from. Freedom to. What do Americans really mean when they talk about freedom? Louis Menand’s “The Free World” is a 700-plus-page intellectual history of the Cold War period that traces the opening of the American mind to new ideas in art, literature, politics, music, foreign policy, criticism, higher education and campus activism. John Cage was making silent music, Jackson Pollock was throwing paint on canvases, Pauline Kael was giving us permission to actually enjoy movies. Thinkers like James Baldwin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt were arguing over what it meant to be free. Liberatory movements were trying to actually make Americans free. But what did it all get us? Out of all this ferment and conflict, what forms of freedom did Americans secure, and which did we lose? It’s hard to think of a writer better suited to explain the art and intellectual culture of the Cold War than Lo

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S03E01- The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery an interview with Robert P. Jones

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#1543 Are We Rome?

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The Woman in the Frame: According to journalist, writer, and commentator Cokie Roberts, many of America's First Ladies were dynamic, politically engaged trailblazers who are often overlooked.

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Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Kermit Roosevelt III