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Throughline
Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the middle of it. From ancient civilizations to forgotten figures, we take you directly to the moments that shaped our world. Throughline is hosted by Peabody Award-winning journalists Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei.Subscribe to Throughline+. You'll be supporting the history-reframing, perspective-shifting, time-warping stories you can't get enough of - and you'll unlock access bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org/throughline
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The Long Hot Summer
Episode Date: July 9, 2020Starting in 1965, summer after summer, America's cities burned. There was civil unrest in more than 150 cities across the country. So in 1967, Lyndon...
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Mecca Under Siege
Episode Date: July 2, 2020Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, is effectively canceled this year, due to concerns around the spread of the coronavirus. But, for two wee...
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There's Something About Mary
Episode Date: June 25, 2020When a cook who carried typhoid fever refused to stop working, despite showing no symptoms, the authorities forcibly quarantined her for nearly three...
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Why 2020 Isn't Quite 1968
Episode Date: June 18, 2020Protests, racial divisions, political polarization, and a law-and-order president – it's easy to draw comparisons between 2020 and 1968. But, Adam Se...
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Presidential Power
Episode Date: June 11, 2020What can and can't the president do, and how do we know? When the framers of the U.S. constitution left vague the powers of the executive branch they...
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American Police
Episode Date: June 4, 2020Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, a...
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Conspiracy
Episode Date: May 21, 2020Since the beginning of the pandemic, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus have exploded. But conspiracy theories themselves are nothing new - in...
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Endless War
Episode Date: May 7, 2020North Korea's famous for being a black box, one of the most secretive and authoritarian countries in the world. It has a nuclear stockpile. A history...
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Throughline Presents: Code Switch
Episode Date: April 9, 2020The Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation told his people to stay strong during this pandemic, and to remember how much they've endured over a long histo...
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A Race To Know
Episode Date: April 2, 2020For nearly as long as there has been a United States there has been a census, it is in some ways how we know ourselves. And in every single census the...
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American Socialist
Episode Date: March 19, 2020It's been over a century since a self-described socialist was a viable candidate for President of the United States. And that first socialist candidat...
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Savarkar And India
Episode Date: March 12, 2020In the past few weeks Delhi has become the latest place in India convulsed with religious violence as Hindu mobs burned Muslim neighborhoods, mosques...
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Public Universal Friend
Episode Date: March 5, 2020America in the run-up to the Revolutionary War wasn't just a period of dramatic political change, it was also a time of great religious and social ins...