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NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
January 4, 2021
Her Neighbor's Wife
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (University of Pennsylvania Press,…
October 17, 2019
Double Crossed
What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Offi…
September 5, 2019
Debating the American State
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative…
September 5, 2019
Donkey Work
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s? In many political histories, the McGovern defeat of 1972 announced the party’s decline—and the …
August 27, 2019
Dying to Be Normal
On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who h…
August 26, 2019
Herman Melville
"What I feel most moved to write, that is banned―it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the otherway I cannot." Herman Melville wrote these words as …
August 7, 2019
Getting Tough
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit w…
August 1, 2019
Policing the Open Road
When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our car…
July 15, 2019
Before AIDS
The AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravag…
July 12, 2019
Sexual Injustice
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein's book Sexual Injustice (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) ex…
July 8, 2019
This Is Our Message
Over the past 50 years, the architects of the religious right have become household names: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson. They have used …
July 2, 2019
Anointed with Oil
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (Basic Books, 2019) places religion and oil at the center of American history. As pr…
June 26, 2019
Bad Girls
In her innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties (Universit…
June 24, 2019
The Rebel Café
The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife―from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians―have long fasc…
May 14, 2019
Reforming Sodom
With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R. White challenges the usual picture of perennial adv…
April 25, 2019
Remaking the American Patient
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, peo…