This Day (An America 250 History Show)
To mark our 250th birthday, “This Day” presents "50 Weeks That Shaped America," a series of deep dives into the stories that brought us to this moment.
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Seneca to Prohibition to the 19th w/ Alex Lovit [Some Sunday Context] (opens the original)
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Every Sunday during our month-long collaboration with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Jody Avirgan chats with Alex Lovit, host of the Kettering podcast "The Context." Today, they follow up on the conversation about Seneca Falls by looking at how the movement for women's rights fractured after the Civil War -- and what it says about the long, winding road to progress. Be sure to check out “The Context” at kettering.org/thecontext Join our America250 newsletter community ! Subscribe for free
Seneca Falls: The Legend w/ Deva Woodly (Part Two) (opens the original)
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All this month, we're partnering with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation for a series called "Democracy Under Construction." You can find out more about their work at kettering.org and listen to their podcast "The Context" at kettering.org/thecontext Our conversation about Seneca Falls continues with a look at what happened after the convention -- and how the story of the women's rights movement got written, rewritten, and contested in the decades that followed. Deva Woodly is back to connect a
Seneca Falls: The Burnt-Over District w/ Deva Woodly (Part One) (opens the original)
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All this month, we're partnering with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation for a series called "Democracy Under Construction." You can find out more about their work at kettering.org and listen to their podcast "The Context" at kettering.org/thecontext For the thirty-fourth installment of "50 Weeks That Shaped America" we go to western New York in the summer of 1848. Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Deva Woodly, Kettering Fellow and professor at Brown University , to discuss the Seneca Falls
Are We Locked In To Two Parties? w/ Alex Lovit [Some Sunday Context] (opens the original)
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Every Sunday during our month-long collaboration with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Jody Avirgan chats with Alex Lovit, host of the Kettering podcast "The Context." Today, they follow up on what the battle over the Bill of Rights was really about, and whether the US is forever locked into the two-party system that the Founders fell in to. Be sure to check out “The Context” at kettering.org/thecontext Join our America250 newsletter community ! Subscribe for free to get the latest news and
Bill Of Rights: Factions w/ Dahliah Lithwick (Part Two) (opens the original)
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All this month, we’re partnering with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation for a series called “Democracy Under Construction.” You can find out more about their work at kettering.org and listen to their podcast “The Context” at kettering.org/thecontext Our conversation about the Bill of Rights continues with a look at how the fight over the document led to the first hard-line parties in the United States. The ink was barely dry on the Bill of Rights when the founders split into camps, which would
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