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Episode 079 Crispus Attucks & the Boston Massacre in American Memory

July 3, 2018 by InThePastLane Leave a Comment

Episode 079 Crispus Attucks & the Boston Massacre in American Memory

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Mitch Kachun about his book, The First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory.  Attucks was the man of African American and Native American heritage who was among the five people killed in the Boston Massacre … [Read more...]

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Episode 077 Legacy of Conquest and the Reshaping of the History of the American West

June 23, 2018 by InThePastLane Leave a Comment

Episode 077 Legacy of Conquest and the Reshaping of the History of the American West

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Patricia Nelson Limerick about her iconic book, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. When this work was first published 30 years ago in 1987, it sent shock waves through the community of historians … [Read more...]

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Episode 074 The Second Coming of the KKK in the 1920s

June 7, 2018 by InThePastLane Leave a Comment

Episode 074 The Second Coming of the KKK in the 1920s

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Linda Gordon about her new book, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (Liveright, 2018). Most Americans are familiar with the first version of the KKK, the one that … [Read more...]

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Episode 071 Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past

May 23, 2018 by InThePastLane 2 Comments

Episode 071 Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak to two historians about their new book on Hamilton: The Musical. Claire Bond Potter and Renee Romano’s book, Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past, features 15 essays by historians that examine many … [Read more...]

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Episode 068 The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

May 11, 2018 by InThePastLane Leave a Comment

Episode 068 The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we engage with the questions: What was the experience of ordinary people -- men and women, white and black, free and enslaved, civilian and soldier, Northerner and Southerner -- during the American Civil War? These questions are ones historian … [Read more...]

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