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Skipped History

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. skippedhistory.substack.com

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21:36

The Myth that Jewish Bankers Secretly Run the World

Skipped History ·

2024/05/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comTo contextualize conversations about antisemitism today, I spoke with Daniel Schulman, a bestselling author and Mother Jones' deputy editor for news and politics. In The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, and in conversation, Dan explores various figures who unleashed antisemitism …

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47:06

The Cancerous Growth of a Neoliberal War Machine

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2024/05/10

Whoa, Nelly — one of my favorite authors, Mehrsa Baradaran, just published a new book, The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America. In The Quiet Coup, and in conversation, Professor Baradaran (UC Irvine Law) traces how backlash to integrating schools led to the rise of neoliberal economic theory — which was essentially one giant excuse to maintain the status quo. As neoliberals accrued more power, they eradicated check after check on capitalism, ultimately leading to a quiet, legal coup

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17:19

Urban Native America, and How Europeans Got It So, So...

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2024/04/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comGrowing up, we’re often taught that there’s a natural societal progression from hunting and gathering, to farming, and then to towns and cities. But as Professor Kathleen DuVal (UNC-Chapel Hill) illuminates in Native Nations, and in conversation, that conception is very Eurocentric. It obscures, among many things, the vast landscape of Native American c…

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49:44

The History of (Not) Paying Your Taxes

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2024/04/12

Here in the States, Monday is Tax Day. I haven’t filed mine yet, partly because if you wait till the last minute, it only takes a minute, and also because I recently spoke with Michael J. Graetz about the history of Americans paying their taxes. In The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America, and in conversation, Professor Graetz traces the rise of the antitax movement to 1978, when a “perfect storm” led to a tax revolt still unfolding today. Professor Graetz is a professor

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27:50

Why Choosing to Have Kids Feels Harder Than Ever

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2024/03/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.comIn Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother, and in conversation, Professor Peggy O’Donnell Heffington traces the collapse of once-common communal methods of childrearing. Her words contextualize why having kids — or choosing not to — feels so challenging for Americans in particular.Professor Heffington teaches gender and women’s history…

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33:03

The Improbable Path to Curing Tuberculosis

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2024/02/16

With the CDC set to end the 5-day isolation period for Covid, as well as rates of disease transmission spiking in Ukraine and Gaza, I thought it a poignant time to explore the history of one of the world’s most infectious diseases: tuberculosis. In her book, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, and in conversation, author Maria Smilios traces the twists and turns of the journey to curing TB, and why too many people still go without treatment today. This is a

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30:50

The Rise and Fall of the “Gay Gene”

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2024/02/02

With attacks on LGBTQ+ rights exploding, I spoke to Professor Joanna Wuest about scapegoating of the LGBTQ+ community over the years and how science has helped hasten reform — even if, sometimes, the science hasn’t been so sound.Joanna Wuest is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College and a sociolegal scholar specializing in LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, religion, and health. Professor Wuest is the author of Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American

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37:01

When the Government Kind of Almost Confiscated Guns

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2024/01/19

With guns in the news a lot of late — Wayne LaPierre recently announced his resignation from the NRA and, yesterday, the DOJ concluded an investigation that found “unimaginable failure” with police in Uvalde — I spoke with Professor Andrew C. McKevitt of Louisiana Tech. In Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, Professor McKevitt traces many of the origins of our gun culture to the years following World War II. Then, one entrepreneur made a lot of money flooding the

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31:08

To Defeat Fascism in 2024, Get Creative

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2024/01/05

To prepare for the tumultuous year ahead, I asked Heather Cox Richardson about the rise of fascism in the U.S. and how Americans have resisted it in the past. In her words, “We are living in another time of testing.” Her advice? Stay focused and get creative.Heather is a professor of U.S. history at Boston College. She’s the author of Letters from an American, the most popular Substack newsletter, which chronicles current events in the larger context of American history. Heather has also written

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35:01

The NYPD and Policing's "Small Toolkit"

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2023/12/01

With New York Mayor Eric Adams deploying discriminatory police tactics — not to mention insisting that asylum seekers “will destroy New York City” — it felt like a good time to explore the early history of the NYPD. In his new book, Police and the Empire City, and in conversation, Dr. Matthew Guariglia reveals how biased perceptions of race and ethnicity shaped policing in New York (and beyond) from the outset.Dr. Guariglia is an Affiliated Scholar at the University of California College of the Law,

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31:44

The Invention of Contemporary Thanksgiving

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2023/11/17

Ahead of Thanksgiving, I spoke with Professor Anne Blue Wills about the invention of the holiday as we know it today. In her article, “Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving,” and in conversation, Professor Wills chronicles how nineteenth-century women’s magazines —and one magazine editor in particular — created contemporary Thanksgiving. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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36:24

The Fading Lessons of the Crack Epidemic

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2023/11/03

As the U.S. enters a “fourth wave” of the opioid crisis, I spoke with journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey about the crack epidemic. In his book, When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era, and in conversation, Donovan details how the epidemic began, why government policies were ineffective, and how lessons from the crack era are fading from memory.Donovan’s reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, WSJ Magazine, Ebony, and Essence, among other outlets

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36:22

The Chilling History of the AR-15

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2023/10/27

Not long ago, I interviewed reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal about their new book, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. I hoped a topical moment to share our interview, which traces how the gun came to be used in mass shootings, wouldn’t arrive for a long time. Alas, a gunman in Maine thought otherwise.I’ll note that, while the search for the gunman continues, it’s unclear exactly what kind of semi-automatic rifle he used. This is a public episode. If

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27:22

"Awakening the Ashes" of Anti-colonialism

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2023/10/20

In Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution, Professor Marlene Daut traces the modern understanding of freedom and equality to Haiti. I thought today would be a good time to share a conversation I had with her. Haiti has low-key been in the news of late, with yet another foreign “security mission” arriving. Further, many of the dynamics Haitians fought against are, sadly, on full display on the global stage today.Professor Daut is a professor of French and African

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37:25

Urgent Lessons for the Next Generation of Protesters

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2023/10/06

In If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, journalist Vincent Bevins chronicles recent uprisings around the world—and why so many of them went awry. In his book, and in conversation, we trace some of the lessons that the next generation of protesters in the US can draw from their peers’ efforts around the world. Vincent also details why the best time to get involved in changing the world is now. Note: the late Senator Dianne Feinstein comes up briefly toward the end of our

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33:56

The Enslaved Women Who Fought Back

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2023/09/29

In Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance, Professor Nikki M. Taylor (Howard University) tells seven different stories about enslaved women who refused to tolerate injustice any longer. In her book, and in conversation, Professor Taylor sheds light on why these women committed lethal acts of resistance and how women trafficked today sometimes resort to the same. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

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28:57

Recentering American History with Michael Harriot

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2023/09/15

In this week’s interview, commentator Michael Harriot delivers a reframing of U.S. history centered around the Black experience. The title of his forthcoming book, Black AF History, The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, gives you a sense of his approach to investigating the past. Michael is a columnist at theGrio.com where he covers the intersection of race, politics, and culture. Michael’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NBC, and BET. Michael is a political commentator on

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31:25

Why Labor’s Cause is Eternal

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2023/09/01

With Labor Day around the corner, and 2023 on pace to be one of the most significant years for work stoppages in recent history, I spoke to Kim Kelly, an independent journalist, author, and organizer. Kim has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her writing on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among many others. Kim is also the author of Fight Like Hell, a book of intersectional labor history

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31:53

Plunder and Resistance in the Old Northwest

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2023/08/18

Amid a growing body of scholarship revealing that Native peoples didn’t simply vanish from their homelands, as the old stereotype suggests, I spoke to Michael John Witgen, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and the author of Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.Michael is a professor in the Department of History and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia. Seeing Red was a finalist for the

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39:36

The Diversity of Eastern Europe—and Ukraine

Skipped History ·

2023/07/21

I’ve been inclined to steer clear of Ukraine in our interviews. This is a U.S. history newsletter, after all. But Eastern Europe has come up repeatedly in our explorations (for example, on Israel and the Diversity Visa), and I seized the chance to read Goodbye, Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski to learn more. Truth be told, I was blown away, and I hope you find our conversation as enjoyable and educational as I did.Jacob is a historian, journalist, and critic. He’s written for The Atlantic, The

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