The Making of America series

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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

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Escape from Alcatraz: The Mystery of the Three Men Who Escaped From The Rock

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The Dinosaur of Waterhouse Hawkins

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Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile

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Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

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Miss Rumphius

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Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges

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Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator

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The Dreamer

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My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

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I Am Ruby Bridges

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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story Retold for Young Readers

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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

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J.K. Rowling: Author of the Harry Potter Series

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Free Lunch

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Yellow Star

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The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times

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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary

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Dazzlin' Dolly: The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton

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The First Conspiracy (Young Reader's Edition): The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

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Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess

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Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood

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The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero

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The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan

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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

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Stacey’s Extraordinary Words

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The Boy on the Wooden Box

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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

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Shaken: Young Readers Edition: Fighting to Stand Strong No Matter What Comes Your Way

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She Got Next: How three women ran and challenged the notion of who could and should be president of the United States.

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Into Black Women and the 19th Amendment: Black women were pushed out of the fight for the women’s vote. 100 years later, they are still fighting for the franchise.

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CoastLine: A Short History Of Women In American Politics: Women make up only a third of state legislators in the United States. On Capitol Hill, the numbers are lower – with women holding only about 24% of Congressional seats. But according to a recent UN Study , the number of female heads of government around

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Voting Rights Activism from Fannie Lou Hamer to Today, Tackling High Maternal Mortality Rates in the U.S., and How to Reframe Abortion as a Liberty Issue for All

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The Challenges Faced by Women in Leadership with Alice Eagly, PhD: With U.S. Senator Kamala Harris as the Democrats’ choice for vice presidential nominee, the challenges faced by female political candidates are back in the news again. This year is the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the...

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What Keeping American Democracy Alive Looks Like: In the wake of the “Stop the Steal” campaign, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the wave of voter suppression bills making their way through Republican legislatures across the country, the struggle for American democracy feels, for many, visceral and even existential. But for Martha S. Jones, a legal and cultural historian at Johns Hopkins University, the moment we find ourselves in is anything but an aberration. “I’m not someone who tells stories about a Whiggish arc in which we are always getting better, doing better, improving upon,” Jones says. “Much of American history is a story about contest, about conflict, about disagreement over fundamental ideas and fundamental precepts, fundamental principles, like citizenship and voting rights.” Jones has spent her career documenting the contestation over American democracy. Her 2018 book, “Birthright Citizens,” tells the story of how Black Americans in the 19th century fought to addre

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The Card Game Bid Whist in Black History and Culture

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A deep look at political loss: Democracy is sometimes described as "a system where political parties lose elections." That's true but doesn't capture the deeper feelings of grief and grievance associated with political loss. We dive into those emotions this week with Juliet Hooker of Brown University.

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Stacey Abrams: Political leader and activist Stacey Abrams is also an author of legal thrillers - her newest one, Rogue Justice, has just been published.

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Making Their Way Home: Historian Blair Imani talks Juneteenth, Police Violence, George Floyd

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Freedom and the U.S. Civil War

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Fannie Lou Hamer's fight continues today: Historian Keisha N. Blain joins us this week to discuss the life and work of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. As you’ll hear, many of the forces Hamer pushed against are still present in our politics today.

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The long road to a multiracial democracy: We commemorate Black History Month and celebrate a new podcast from Virginia Public Media that talks about Reconstruction from the perspective of African Americans who fought for freedom and the right to be citizens of American democracy.

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Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022): An interview with Virginia L. Summey

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Republicans Needed this Debate like a Hole in the Head: Harold Meyerson, plus Ella Taylor on TV

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Ancestral Power: Maria and Julio are joined by authors and historians Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross to talk about their latest book, A Black Women's History of the United States. They analyze the history of Bl...

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PODCAST: Dark Days in the U.S. Senate: Written by Laurie Higgins Every day, “progressives” provide evidence for their unfitness for any positions of leadership, power, or influence. Senate minority leader and master of hyperbole and prevarication Chuck Schumer (d-NY) provides a case in point.

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Interracial Household Dynamics In 2020: As a historian of environmental justice and African American history, writer Faith Ann –- who is a white woman in an interracial marriage -– says she possesses the academic and intellectual kno…

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Mayors back Bloomberg’s bid: Joanna Slater on President Trump’s visit to India. Fenit Nirappil asks why D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser supports Michael Bloomberg. And NASA mourns the death of Katherine Johnson, a “hidden figure” during the space race.

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Us & Them: Caught Between Two Worlds: Our nation’s capital can make and break careers. In a very short period, Cassidy Hutchinson went from a complete outsider to traveling on Air Force One with the President of the United States. She tells Trey Kay about life on either side of the political divide.

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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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Race Baiting is Real - July 15th, Hour 2

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George H.W. Bush Gave Us Today's Republican Party: Harold Meyerson, plus Katha Pollitt on White Women and Trump and Eric Foner on Frederick Douglass: George H. W. Bush paved the way for today’s Republican party with his racist Willy Horton campaign, nominated Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, and pardoned the Iran-Contra conspirator whose trial would have exposed his own abuse of power. Harold M...

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Rep. Joyce Beatty on the nomination of a Black woman to the Supreme Court: As Black History Month comes to a close, Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, who serves as chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, discusses her heroes, and the racism she and other Black women on Capitol Hill face. This conversation was recorded on Feb. 16 for "Washington Post Live."

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Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023): An interview with Juliet Hooker

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Lillian Faderman, "Woman: The American History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2022): An interview with Lillian Faderman

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145 Rosemarie Zagarri, Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren wasn’t your typical early American woman. She was a woman with strong political viewpoints, which she wrote about and published for the world to see and consider. Did anyone take her views seriously? Did her writings sway public...

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Votes For Women with Lisa Tetrault

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Harriet Tubman Facts with Kate Larson 02-20-2020: Cixx celebrates Black  History by presenting the "Elder Tribute of Historical Figures" Interview Our featured guest, Dr. Kate Clifford Larson, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Cixx speaks with Dr. Larson about one of...

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Harriet Tubman's Myths and Facts with Kate Larson 02-20-2020: Cixx celebrates Black  History by presenting the "Elder Tribute of Historical Figures" Interview Our featured guest, Dr. Kate Clifford Larson, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Cixx speaks with Dr. Larson about one of...