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NBN Episodes hosted by Matthew:
October 30, 2020
The Campus Color Line
Some of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free sp…
October 16, 2019
Crack
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the De…
December 24, 2018
Postwar
When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined. From roughly 1943 onw…
November 21, 2018
The Mismeasure of Minds
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America’s schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multi-decade debate …
October 26, 2018
Upending the Ivory Tower
The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartm…
October 9, 2018
The Road to Disaster
Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite…
September 4, 2018
Cuban Revolution in America
Cuba’s grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoke…
August 23, 2018
Land of the Fee
Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality - a loss of working cl…
May 28, 2018
Indians in the Family
During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant orphaned by his troops. Moved by…
May 22, 2018
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
A book that strikes at the source of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Ethan J. Kytle and …
January 8, 2018
Consuming Japan
In Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (UNC Press, 2017), Andrew McKevitt explores the intense and ultimately fleeti…
December 13, 2017
From Oligarchy to Republicanism
In From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction (University of Missouri Press, 2017) , Forrest Nabors sets out to show that congr…
November 28, 2017
Horace Poolaw
In Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), Laura E. Smith, Assistant Professor of Art History a…
November 2, 2017
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
In From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs (Columbia University Press, 2017), historian Joshua Clark Davis offers …
November 1, 2017
An American Genocide
In less than thirty years, California's Indian population fell from 150,000 to 30,000. In An American Genocide: The United States and the California I…