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Episode 52 - More about the News
We continue our series on the history of the news and journalism in the United States with a look at the CNN Effect and...
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Episode 51 - The History of Newspapers and the News
Politicians and journalists alike often claim Americans are more divided now than at any point in the nation's past. Pundits and commentators point to...
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Episode 50 - Medicine in the US Civil War
In this episode Hilary and Geoff discuss common misconceptions about medicine during the Civil War. They also talk about key advances that take place...
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Episode 49 - A History of Medicine - Part 1
So, this week we start an extended series about the history of medicine. We start in Ancient Egypt and move around the Mediterranean finally...
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Episode 48 - September 11, 2001 Twenty Years Later
In this week's episode we look back on the events of September 11, 2001, and ask how we grapple with memory and recounting historical...
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Episode 47 - The Stonewall Rebellion
On June 28, 1969, what would normally have been a rather routine police bust of an unlicensed bar on New York City's west side,...