

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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Latest Episodes

Processing Roe’s Reversal in Real Time

Encore: Investigating Democracy

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Backstage, Now & Then, 6/14

Nostalgia & Political Power

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Backstage, Now & Then, 6/7

The Mirage of Money (or, NFTs, WTF?)

Free Speech: What IS Cancel Culture?

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Backstage, Now & Then, 5/31

Free Speech: The Power of an Independent Press

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