Now & Then

How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Wednesday, 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. Now and Then is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

History
Society & Culture
News Commentary
101
Voting Rights: The Big Picture (ft. Carol Ander...
44 min
102
The Rise of Bully Politics
43 min
103
Speakers of the House: Velvet Gloves and Iron F...
49 min
104
Split Party Politics
46 min
105
Government Debt Roulette
44 min
106
New York, New York
48 min
107
Abortion: Whose Choice?
42 min
108
Climate Control
44 min
109
Attacking and Defending Voting Rights
51 min
110
Afghanistan & American Styles of War
52 min
111
Treason(ish)
48 min
112
A Backstage Peek
26 min
113
Projecting America at the Olympics
51 min
114
The Human Toll of Infrastructure
50 min
115
Culture Wars
42 min
116
Judging the Supreme Court
47 min
117
Creating Federal Holidays, July 4th to Juneteenth
50 min
118
Corrupting the Commonwealth
44 min
119
QAnon, Cults, and Cutlery
43 min
120
Battling Over Critical Race Theory
56 min
121
Investigating Democracy
43 min
122
Entangling Alliances
45 min
123
Introducing Now & Then
2 min