In The Past Lane - The Podcast About History and Why It Matters
200 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 219 ratingsIn 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 philosophy is that history is not just about the past - it's about our world, here and now. History explains why things are the way they are, everything from our economy, religious practices, and foreign policy, to political ideology, family structure, and rates of poverty. Our aim is to be both informative and educational, as well as entertaining and funny. We hope you'll join us for memorable journeys In The Past Lane.
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099 The Pit Stop for the week of Oct 8, 2018
October 08, 2018 01:53 - 5 minutes - 6.05 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
098 The Pit Stop for the week of Oct 1, 2018
October 01, 2018 02:24 - 5 minutes - 5.71 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
097 Rethinking and Remembering: The 1898 Wilmington, NC Massacre and Coup
September 28, 2018 19:21 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Margaret M. Mulrooney about her new book, Race, Place, and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, NC. It’s a book that examines more than 300 years of a southern city’s history of racial oppression and the ways in which its citizens have obscured this legacy with distorted and self-serving versions of events. The supreme example of this trend was the 1898 massacre and coup in which white supremacists massacred scores o...
096 The Pit Stop for the Week of Sept 24 2018
September 24, 2018 01:41 - 4 minutes - 5.17 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
095 The Pit Stop for the week of Sept 17, 2018
September 17, 2018 02:17 - 5 minutes - 6.05 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
094 The Founding and the Fallacy of Original Intent
September 14, 2018 04:01 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Andrew Shankman about his new book, Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding. It’s a conversation that’s perfectly timed for the Senate hearings on President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. That’s because Kavanaugh adheres to a judicial philosophy known as originalism that argues judges must make their rulings based on a close reading of the Constitution that det...
093 The Pit Stop for the week of Sept 10 2018
September 09, 2018 23:44 - 6 minutes - 6.31 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
092 The Pit Stop for the week of Sept 3, 2018
September 04, 2018 13:52 - 5 minutes - 6.02 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
091 The Origins of Labor Day: Protesting Inequality in the Gilded Age
September 01, 2018 18:43 - 17 minutes - 16.8 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I take a deep dive into the origins of Labor Day. It's a holiday that most Americans these days take for granted. But it was born out of the crisis of the Gilded Age, that tumultuous last third of the 19th century that saw both the US economy boom as never before and social upheaval take place on an unprecedented level. This unique holiday was first celebrated on September 5, 1882. On that day thousands of workers in New York City risk...
090 The Pit Stop for the week of August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018 01:31 - 6 minutes - 6.31 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
089 Aaron Burr and the Conspiracy That Rocked the Early Republic
August 23, 2018 17:07 - 42 minutes - 39.6 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian James E. Lewis, Jr. about his book, The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis. Most people these days know that Aaron Burr was, as his character says in Hamilton, The Musical, “the damn fool” who in 1804 shot and killed Alexander Hamilton. More specifically, Burr was the sitting VP who shot a former Secretary of the Treasury in a duel resulting from a personal feud. Think about it. That’s...
088 The Pit Stop for the week of August 20, 2018
August 20, 2018 11:50 - 5 minutes - 6.03 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
087 The Pit Stop for the week of August 13, 2018
August 13, 2018 02:19 - 4 minutes - 5 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
086 How One US Government Agency Saved Thousands of Jews during World War II
August 11, 2018 22:29 - 45 minutes - 42.6 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Rebecca Erbelding about her new book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe. It’s a fascinating book about a forgotten World War II story about the War Refugee Board, a US agency created in 1944 to help save European Jews from the Nazi genocide. Historians and other scholars have long argued that the US could have done more to disrupt the Nazi efforts to exterminate the Jews of...
085 The Pit Stop for the week of August 6, 2018
August 07, 2018 13:21 - 3 minutes - 4.16 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
084 Hitler's American Model: The US and the Making of Nazi Race Law
July 29, 2018 19:45 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with legal historian James Q. Whitman about his book, Hitler's American Model: The US and the Making of Nazi Race Law. Many people are aware that the American civil rights movement served as an inspiration to freedom movements around the world. But Whitman’s book examines the flip side of that phenomenon – that the very system of Jim Crow racial oppression that the civil rights movement sought to dismantle also inspired efforts arou...
083 The Pit Stop for the week of July 23, 2018
July 22, 2018 20:44 - 4 minutes - 4.77 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
082 The Pit Stop Stop for the week of July 16 2018
July 16, 2018 03:59 - 5 minutes - 5.5 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
081 Sun, Sand, and Civil Rights: The Battle to Open America's Beaches to All
July 13, 2018 14:48 - 36 minutes - 34.4 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with Historian Andrew W. Kahrl about his new book, Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline. Beaches, like any public space in the US, have long been contested public spaces. That’s because throughout American history, the definition of the public – the citizenry – has never been agreed-upon, leading to the marginalization and exclusion of various racial, ethnic, and economic gro...
080 The Pit Stop for the week of July 9, 2018
July 09, 2018 02:35 - 5 minutes - 5.61 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com
079 Crispus Attucks & the Boston Massacre in American Memory
July 03, 2018 20:46 - 42 minutes - 40.1 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Mitch Kachun about his book, The First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory. Attucks was the man of African American and Native American heritage who was among the five people killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. To this day, very little is known about Crispus Attucks. So Mitch Kachun’s book focuses, as the subtitle suggests, on the memory of Attucks and how it’s changed and evolved over ...
078 The Pit Stop for the week of July 2, 2018
July 02, 2018 12:55 - 5 minutes - 5.61 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
077 Legacy of Conquest and the Reshaping of the History of the American West
June 23, 2018 01:09 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Patricia Nelson Limerick about her iconic book, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. When this work was first published 30 years ago in 1987, it sent shock waves through the community of historians whose work focused on the American west. Up to that time, much of the history of the West had focused on narrative histories of events like the famed Long Drive that established the ranching indu...
076 The Pit Stop June 18 2018
June 18, 2018 01:27 - 5 minutes - 5.98 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com
075 The Pit Stop for the Week of June 11, 2018
June 11, 2018 02:30 - 5 minutes - 6.17 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit ...
074 The Second Coming of the KKK in the 1920s
June 07, 2018 17:31 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Linda Gordon about her new book, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (Liveright, 2018). Most Americans are familiar with the first version of the KKK, the one that was founded in 1866, right after the Civil War, in order to uphold white supremacy in the South through campaigns of terrorist violence. Once the Jim Crow system of racial oppression was in place...
073 The Pit Stop for June 4, 2018
June 04, 2018 01:00 - 6 minutes - 6.83 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. Here’s what happened in American history the week of June 4, 2018. BIRTHDAYS June 5 1919 - Richard Scarry born in Boston, MA Child...
072 The Pit Stop for the week of May 28, 2018
May 28, 2018 01:08 - 6 minutes - 6.35 MBWhat happened in American history the week of May 28, 2018? Better turn to The Pit Stop, a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you about the people born this week and the key events that transpired - in about 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Pa...
071 Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past
May 24, 2018 00:52 - 51 minutes - 48 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak to two historians about their new book on Hamilton: The Musical. Claire Bond Potter and Renee Romano’s book, Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past, features 15 essays by historians that examine many aspects of the Broadway sensation. For example, historian Joanne Freeman – some of you know her from the Backstory podcast – has written an essay, “Can We Get Back to Politics? Please? Hamilton’s ...
070 The Pit Stop May 21 2018
May 21, 2018 01:56 - 6 minutes - 6.32 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit Sto...
069 The Pit Stop May 14 2018
May 14, 2018 01:01 - 6 minutes - 6.98 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
068 The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
May 11, 2018 22:02 - 38 minutes - 36.1 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we engage with the questions: What was the experience of ordinary people -- men and women, white and black, free and enslaved, civilian and soldier, Northerner and Southerner -- during the American Civil War? These questions are ones historian Edward L. Ayers has been trying to answer for more than 25 years. Since the mid-1990s, his extraordinary project, the Shadow of the Valley (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/), has created a vast archive...
067 The Pit Stop for the week of April 16, 2018
May 07, 2018 01:51 - 6 minutes - 6.5 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in about 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com
066 The Pit Stop for the week of April 30, 2018
April 30, 2018 06:00 - 6 minutes - 6.87 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
065 How the British Lost the American Revolution
April 27, 2018 03:51 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore look at the American Revolution from a different angle – the British angle. The reasons why the Americans won the Revolution are well known. But if we step back from this event and think about it in a larger, global context, one very large question emerges: how did Great Britain, a nation well on its way to becoming the greatest global empire in history, a nation that in 1776 was the foremost military power in the world, how did ...
064 The Pit Stop for the week of April 23, 2018
April 23, 2018 10:55 - 6 minutes - 6.84 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com
063 The Pit Stop for the week of April 16, 2018
April 16, 2018 04:56 - 7 minutes - 7.62 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
062 Bunk! Hoaxes, Humbug, Flim Flam, and Fake News in US History
April 13, 2018 22:03 - 41 minutes - 39 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news, beginning in the early 19th century. All societies are susceptible to hoaxes and scams, but there seems to be something about America’s culture of striving and reinvention that makes its people particularly vulnerable to the wily ways of tricksters, from P.T. Barnum to Bernie Madoff. To make sense of this fascinating thread that runs through US history, ...
061 The Pit Stop for the week of April 9, 2018
April 09, 2018 06:00 - 8 minutes - 8.63 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
060 The Pit Stop for the week of April 2 2018
April 02, 2018 13:43 - 7 minutes - 7.85 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
059 The Weeping Time – The Story of the Largest Slave Auction in US History
March 31, 2018 18:30 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore the story of the largest slave auction in American history when some 436 enslaved people were sold in a two-day auction in 1859. To the people sold and the people they left behind, it would forever be known as “the weeping time.” This wrenching event involved the Butler family, a prominent southern family with ties to the Founding, as well as a famous British actress and abolitionist, Fanny Kemble. And of course, it involved hund...
058 The Pit Stop for the week of March 26, 2018
March 26, 2018 08:00 - 6 minutes - 5.89 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
057 The Pit Stop for the week of March 19, 2018
March 19, 2018 08:00The Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
057 The Pit Stop for the week of March 19, 2018
March 19, 2018 08:00The Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
056 Two Strange Tales of Irish America: Lord Haw Haw and Bridey Murphy
March 18, 2018 01:41 - 23 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, It’s our annual St Patrick’s Day episode. In this episode, we explore the stories of two Irish Americans very few people remember, but who in their day were quite famous. One is William Joyce, who was known during World War II as Lord Haw Haw. He was the voice of Nazi propaganda that Germany broadcast to England during the course of the war. And the other is Virginia Tighe, who in the late 1950s was also known as Bridey Murphy. This was due...
055 The Pit Stop for the week of March 12, 2018
March 12, 2018 02:27 - 4 minutes - 2.87 MBThe Pit Stop is a weekly mini-episode from In The Past Lane, the podcast about history and why it matters. Every Monday The Pit Stop tells you what happened in American history this week - in under 5 minutes! We drop these minis in between our full-length episodes that feature interviews with historians about their latest books, feature pieces, and more. For more information about the In The Past Lane podcast, head to our website, www.InThePastLane.com Production Credits for The Pit St...
054 What Was The Gilded Age? Part 3
March 06, 2018 04:29 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we present Part 3 of our multi-episode examination of the Gilded Age. In this episode, we look at some of the people and organizations that took on the problems that arose in the Gilded Age. In the case of the former, we examine reformers like Henry George and Mary Elizabeth Lease. And in the latter, we tell the story of the Knights of Labor and the People’s Party. Taken together, these people and organizations pushed the nation to rethink ...
053 What Was The Gilded Age? Part 2
February 25, 2018 04:52 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we present Part 2 of our multi-episode examination of the Gilded Age. In this episode, we take a hard look at the dark side of the Gilded Age – all the troubling trends that challenged the ebullient celebration of progress in the late 19th century. We’ll start by talking about the broad fear that the US was becoming Europeanized – not ethnically, but rather politically and socially. If the great fear in the 20th century was that America mig...
052 What Was The Gilded Age? Part 1
February 13, 2018 19:18 - 22 minutes - 21.4 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we begin a multi-episode look at that fascinating period known as the Gilded Age. This seemed a good time to do it because PBS just aired its new documentary called The Gilded Age. I was lucky enough to be one of the featured historians. The premiere on Feb 6 drew a big audience and rave reviews. And it’s not too difficult to see why: there are so many parallels between the Gilded Age (1870-1900) and the era in which we now live. The nation...
051 Black Athletes in US History: Performance, Power, and Protest
January 29, 2018 01:44 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBThis week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we look at the complicated history of black athletes in US history. I’ll speak with historian Louis Moore, author of two new books on African American athletes, I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (University of Illinois Press), and We Will Win The Day: The Civil Rights Movement, The Black Athlete, And The Quest For Equality (Praeger). In the first half of our conversation, we discuss the emergence of bl...