This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we take a close look at a long forgotten chapter in US history – the story of tens of thousands of African Americans who, in the 70 years before the Civil War and the end of slavery, settled on what was then the western frontier and today … [Read more...]
Episode 109 How Americans Made Sense of World War I
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1, we’ve put together two episodes related to that topic. The previous one explored the history of the great influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 that swept the world in the wake of the war, killing tens of millions. In this episode, we turn our … [Read more...]
Episode 105 The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920
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...]
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