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Now & Then

How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today.

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Does Anyone Love Taxes?
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Backstage, Now & Then, 8/9
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Backstage, Now & Then, 8/2
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Tracking History’s Mysteries
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Gastropod: The Milk of Life
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Backstage, Now & Then, 7/19
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Militia Movements
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Racism and the Second Amendment (with Carol Anderson)
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Backstage, Now & Then, 7/5
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Alcohol in American Politics
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