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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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A Backstage Peek
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Projecting America at the Olympics
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Backstage, Now & Then, 8/3
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Backstage, Now & Then, 7/27
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The Human Toll of Infrastructure
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Backstage, Now & Then, 7/20
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Culture Wars
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Judging the Supreme Court
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Backstage, Now & Then, 7/13
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Creating Federal Holidays, July 4th to Juneteenth
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