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Join in on the fun on this week's episode as host Evelyn Funda challenges her Eating the Past co-hosts with another food quiz featuringPresidential comfort foods.

Join in on the fun on this week's episode as host Evelyn Funda challenges her Eating the Past co-hosts with another food quiz featuring comfort foods of historical figures.

We talk with historian Richard E. Turley Jr. about his Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, titled "Team History: The Latter-day Saint Historical Enterprise, 1986–2025."

This week host Evelyn Funda continues the theme of comfort food and how how the language of food united Ben Franklin and his wife Deborah Read.

We revisit our conversation from 2019 with H.W. Brands on his book "Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants."

Did you know that drinking lemonade was once a political and moral statement? This week host Sarah Berry explores the history of lemonade in the U.S. and it's connection to the 19th century temperance movement.

USU History Professor Tammy Proctor joins us to talk about her book "Saving Europe," which looks at American aid and intervention in Europe between 1914 and 1924.

Host Tammy Proctor continues their series on comfort food exploring Yotam Ottolenghi's cookbook that asks "what does it mean to have a comfort food?"

Our guest is anthropologist Jennifer Raff. Her book "Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas" tells the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were and how they got here.

This week Eating the Past hosts continue their theme of birthday cakes, from the industrial revolution to the convenience and affordability of a cake in a box.