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About Nathan Bierma
NBN Episodes hosted by Nathan:
December 2, 2019
The Open-Ended City
It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the …
July 18, 2019
A Narrative History of the American Press
The American press is older than the United States itself. Ever since its catalytic role in the American Revolution, journalism has evolved to meet ch…
June 25, 2019
Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark. Nestled in its neigh…
June 14, 2019
Rube Tube
The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence. But in their original historical, social, and commercial …
March 27, 2019
From Gutenberg to Google
It's easy to get sidetracked while writing a book. But imagine being interrupted by the President of the United States. That happened to Tom Wheeler, …
March 19, 2019
The Russian Five
Keith Gave spent six years in the NSA during the Cold War, but his most daring mission may have come later, while working as a sports writer. In the l…
March 6, 2019
Wired into Nature
It's been called the first Internet. In the nineteenth century, the telegraph spun a world wide web of cables and poles, carrying electronic signals w…
January 31, 2019
A Half Century of Super Bowls
The Super Bowl is a singular spectacle in American culture. More than just a championship football game, the Super Bowl has become an unparalleled dis…
December 18, 2018
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
Perhaps no form of popular art has appeared as poised to resist subversive sexual themes as the television situation comedy. But Tison Pugh writes tha…
December 12, 2018
The Eighth Wonder of the World
It rose against the Texas sun in all its architectural audacity: a domed stadium big enough to cover a baseball field. When it opened in 1965, the Hou…
November 19, 2018
Inventing American Tradition
Americans gathering for Thanksgiving this week may assume they are continuing an unbroken chain of tradition that traces directly back to Massachusett…
November 14, 2018
Sympathy for the Traitor
The success of a translator may seem to lie in going unnoticed: the translator ducks out of the spotlight so that the original author may shine. M…
November 8, 2018
The Joy of Sets
Television started as a dream of nineteenth-century science fiction. It took its place in the twentieth-century home, and became a fixture of family l…
October 19, 2018
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
Jack Benny was one of the first crossover stars in broadcast comedy, rising from the vaudeville circuit to star in radio, film, and te…
October 9, 2018
The Television Code
If you watch old movies or study film history, you may know that early 20th-century Hollywood operated under the Motion Picture Production Code, which…