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In The Past Lane - The Podcast About History and Why It Matters

In each episode of In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we take up topics in American history and explore them through feature pieces, interviews, book and film reviews, and more. Our guiding philos... Read more

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194 The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 + This Week in US History

194 The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 + This Week in US History

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we take a look at one of the most deadly incidents of anti-... Read more

26 May 2020

14mins

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105 The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920

105 The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Nancy K. Bristow about her book, American Pan... Read more

10 Nov 2018

40mins

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130 Rethinking Jamestown and America’s Origin Story

130 Rethinking Jamestown and America’s Origin Story

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we take a close look at America’s early colonial origins. M... Read more

7 Mar 2019

50mins

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137 The Divergent Lives of Thomas Jefferson’s White and Black Daughters

137 The Divergent Lives of Thomas Jefferson’s White and Black Daughters

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we dive into the fascinating story of the daughters of Thom... Read more

18 Apr 2019

51mins

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049 Jefferson and Adams: Founders, Foes, and Friends

049 Jefferson and Adams: Founders, Foes, and Friends

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we look at the fractious and imperfect, but also quite revealing rel... Read more

11 Jan 2018

37mins

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177 How Radicals Transformed the US

177 How Radicals Transformed the US

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, I speak with Holly Jackson about her new book, American Ra... Read more

30 Nov 2019

40mins

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094 The Founding and the Fallacy of Original Intent

094 The Founding and the Fallacy of Original Intent

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Andrew Shankman about his new book, Original ... Read more

14 Sep 2018

58mins

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097 Rethinking and Remembering: The 1898 Wilmington, NC Massacre and Coup

097 Rethinking and Remembering: The 1898 Wilmington, NC Massacre and Coup

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Margaret M. Mulrooney about her new book, Ra... Read more

28 Sep 2018

46mins

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166 Labor Day - Why Labor History Is American History

166 Labor Day - Why Labor History Is American History

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, it’s time for a special Labor Day episode where I speak wit... Read more

29 Aug 2019

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084 Hitler's American Model: The US and the Making of Nazi Race Law

084 Hitler's American Model: The US and the Making of Nazi Race Law

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with legal historian James Q. Whitman about his book, Hitler... Read more

29 Jul 2018

34mins

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140 How the US Became an Antislavery Nation

140 How the US Became an Antislavery Nation

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we learn about the long political struggle before the Civil... Read more

4 May 2019

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192 The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920

192 The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Nancy Bristow  about her book, American Pand... Read more

6 May 2020

40mins

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112 The Forgotten Story of African American Pioneers in the Early West

112 The Forgotten Story of African American Pioneers in the Early West

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we take a close look at a long forgotten chapter in US hist... Read more

13 Dec 2018

46mins

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079 Crispus Attucks & the Boston Massacre in American Memory

079 Crispus Attucks & the Boston Massacre in American Memory

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Mitch Kachun about his book, The First Martyr... Read more

3 Jul 2018

42mins

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173 Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Sports in the US

173 Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Sports in the US

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, I speak with historian Ryan Swanson about his new book, Th... Read more

4 Oct 2019

36mins

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169 The Myth of Black Confederates

169 The Myth of Black Confederates

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, I speak with historian Kevin Levin about his new book, Sea... Read more

17 Sep 2019

32mins

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146 The British Are Coming - The Crucial Early Years of the American Revolution

146 The British Are Coming - The Crucial Early Years of the American Revolution

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, I speak with Pulitzer Prize winning military historian, Ric... Read more

31 May 2019

37mins

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123 Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

123 Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we look at the largely unknown story of Black nationalist w... Read more

1 Feb 2019

36mins

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127 The History of Ice and Refrigeration in the US

127 The History of Ice and Refrigeration in the US

This week In The Past Lane, the American history podcast, looks into the little known and yet hugely significant develop... Read more

21 Feb 2019

43mins

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089 Aaron Burr and the Conspiracy That Rocked the Early Republic

089 Aaron Burr and the Conspiracy That Rocked the Early Republic

This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian James E. Lewis, Jr. about his book, The Burr ... Read more

23 Aug 2018

42mins

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