Skipped History

Skipped History

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Interviews with top historians about their latest work. Mainly educational, often funny. Conveniently, most of the jokes are about people too far underground to punch back. Hosted by Ben Tumin, creator of the NYT-profiled Skipped History web series.

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Recent Episodes

  • The Founders Didn’t Worship the Founding

    1 week ago
  • What James Baldwin and 1963 Teach Us About Building Consensus Today

    3 weeks ago
  • The Americas: A History of Two Moral Visions

    1 month ago
  • It's Time We Learned About the Einstein of Sex

    2 months ago
  • Learning from the Last Land Rushes

    2 months ago
  • In Search of Accountability for Native Boarding Schools

    3 months ago
  • The Racist History Beneath Our Roads

    3 months ago
  • Three Paths Left Through the Planetary Crisis

    3 months ago
  • The Troubling Questions at the Heart of the Study of Slavery

    3 months ago
  • The Red Scare Sounds a Little Too Familiar

    4 months ago