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The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.

Episodes

The Invention of Race

Nov 19 2020 • 0 MIN

The idea that race is a social construct comes from the pioneering work of anthropologist Franz Boas. During a time when race-based science and the eugenics movement were becoming mainstream, anthr...

BONUS: Louder Than A Riot

Nov 16 2020 • 0 MIN

This week we're bringing you something extra, an episode from the NPR Music series, Louder Than A Riot. The series examines the relationship between hip hop and mass incarceration and you can find ...

The Shadows of the Constitution

Nov 12 2020 • 0 MIN

The Constitution is like America's secular bible, our sacred founding document. In her play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck goes through a process of discovering what the document...

Bush v. Gore and Why It Matters in 2020

Nov 5 2020 • 0 MIN

In the 2000 presidential election, results weren't known in one night, a week, or even a month. This week, we share an episode we loved from It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders that revisits one of...

The Most Sacred Right

Oct 29 2020 • 0 MIN

Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of slavery, the Civil War and the violence of Jim Cr...

How We Vote

Oct 22 2020 • 0 MIN

Drunken brawls, coercion, and lace curtains. Believe it or not, how regular people vote was not something the founding fathers thought much about, or planned for. Americans went from casting votes ...