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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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Processing Roe’s Reversal in Real Time
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Encore: Investigating Democracy
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Backstage, Now & Then, 6/14
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Nostalgia & Political Power
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Backstage, Now & Then, 6/7
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The Mirage of Money (or, NFTs, WTF?)
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Free Speech: What IS Cancel Culture?
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Backstage, Now & Then, 5/31
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Free Speech: The Power of an Independent Press
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