Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?

Silverman reveals the complex history surrounding the 1621 feast that every November many Americans associate with silver-buckled Pilgrim costumes, Squanto and Massasoit, and miraculous feats of friendship...

"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?

Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...

Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...

Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...

Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...

Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...

Cornell and Leonard focus on the decline of the Founding generation's elitist vision of the Constitution and the rise of a more 'democratic' vision...

Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again...

Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love for their country even as they suffer and struggle to get by...

Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

Cox discusses what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South...

In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”

Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...

Baker focuses his gaze on the rural counties that underwent significant social, cultural, political, and environmental change as southern cities expanded after World War II...

Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany

We discuss why Midwesterners are diffident about their history, and why they both hope that Warren Buffet is listening to this podcast...

What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...

Thomas challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom...