U.S. History

Below Rockslide Rapid, a red-tailed hawk flew from one side of the river to the other and perched, unaware of both the political boundary it had crossed and the freedom it embodied.

We talk with historian Charlotte Brooks about her new book "The Moys of New York and Shanghai."

Larry Morris recounts the 19th-century experience of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos by detailing their interactions with four legendary survivors of a fight with the Arikaras in 1823.

We talk with Tim McGrath, author of "Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation."

In 1893, Matilda Joslyn Gage was arrested for registering to vote. We talk about women's suffrage and Gage's connection to "The Wizard of Oz."

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, 12 have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee.

We revisit our conversation with Kate Moore, author of the New York Times bestseller 'The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women'.

Politico Magazine recently published an article titled "Everyone in Congress Is Obsessed with This Book About the Post-Civil War Era." We revisit our conversation with the book's author, Jon Grinspan, on today's episode.

We revisit our conversation with religious scholar Jana Riess. She gave the 2024 Arrington Mormon History Lecture at USU titled “Latter-day Saint Women and the Quiet Erosion of Certainty.”

A new biography revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. John Steinbeck relied on Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers to write "The Grapes of Wrath."