This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Nancy Bristow about her book, American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. In November 1918, even as millions of Americans and Europeans celebrated the end of World War I, their communities were being … [Read more...]
Episode 103 The Ideal of Honor in the Age of the American Revolution
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Craig Bruce Smith talks about his new book, American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era. Throughout the era of the American Revolution, Americans spoke of honor all the time, most famously … [Read more...]
Episode 100 The Eugenics Movement: The Effort to Create a Pure American Race
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with documentary filmmaker, Michelle Ferrari, writer and producer of “The Eugenics Crusade,” which airs on PBS’s American Experience series on October 16, 2018. These days, eugenics is a discredited pseudoscience, one associated with … [Read more...]
Episode 097 Rethinking and Remembering: The 1898 Wilmington, NC Massacre and Coup
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Margaret M. Mulrooney about her new book, Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, NC. It’s a book that examines more that 300 years of a southern city’s history of racial oppression and the ways in which its … [Read more...]
Episode 094 The Founders, The Constitution, & the Fallacy of Original Intent
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Andrew Shankman about his new book, Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding. It’s a conversation that’s perfectly timed for the Senate hearings on President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme … [Read more...]
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