united states history

(Airs 06/24/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Brad Utter, Senior Historian and Curator of Science and Technological History at the New York State Museum, about his chapter on the Erie Canal in the new book Revolutionary New York, 250 Years of Social Change.

(Airs 06/24/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Brad Utter, Senior Historian and Curator of Science and Technological History at the New York State Museum, about his chapter on the Erie Canal in the new book Revolutionary New York, 250 Years of Social Change.

The new book, Ballot, examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an increasingly anti-voting climate. Armed with her personal experiences as a poll worker, electoral organizer, and activist, Anjali Enjeti presents the precarious state of the ballot during one of the most tumultuous political eras in US history.

The author of "American Nations" returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought…

A new, single volume of history sets out to explore the experiment in government that is the United States. Award-winning Harvard historian Jill Lepore,…

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right…