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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 Modern White Power Movement
Episode Date: December 3, 2020It has been nearly twenty years since 9/11 and during that time much of the media coverage and government attention has been directed at the threat of...
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The Spotted Owl
Episode Date: November 26, 2020The story of how the Endangered Species Act went from unanimous passage under a Republican president to becoming a deeply partisan wedge. The act was...
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The Invention of Race
Episode Date: November 19, 2020The idea that race is a social construct comes from the pioneering work of anthropologist Franz Boas. During a time when race-based science and the eu...
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BONUS: Louder Than A Riot
Episode Date: November 16, 2020This week we're bringing you something extra, an episode from the NPR Music series, Louder Than A Riot. The series examines the relationship between h...
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The Shadows of the Constitution
Episode Date: November 12, 2020The Constitution is like America's secular bible, our sacred founding document. In her play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck goes thr...
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Bush v. Gore and Why It Matters in 2020
Episode Date: November 5, 2020In the 2000 presidential election, results weren't known in one night, a week, or even a month. This week, we share an episode we loved from It's Been...
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The Most Sacred Right
Episode Date: October 29, 2020Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of sl...
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How We Vote
Episode Date: October 22, 2020Drunken brawls, coercion, and lace curtains. Believe it or not, how regular people vote was not something the founding fathers thought much about, or...
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The Electoral College
Episode Date: October 15, 2020What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins and evolution of the Electoral...
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(mis)Representative Democracy, A New Series From Throughline
Episode Date: October 8, 2020America has never been a country of one person, one vote. And that's by design. Our system was built by a select few, for a select few. We were never...
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Episode Date: October 8, 2020Billie Holiday helped shape American popular music with her voice and unique style. But, one song in particular has become her greatest legacy — "Stra...
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The Everlasting Problem
Episode Date: October 1, 2020Health insurance for millions of Americans is dependent on their jobs. But it's not like that everywhere. So, how did the U.S. end up with such a frag...
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The Evangelical Vote
Episode Date: September 24, 2020With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the president is hoping to fill the seat with a more ideologically conservative justice. And evangelical Christ...
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James Baldwin's Fire
Episode Date: September 17, 2020In a moment when America is undertaking an uncomfortable reckoning with its racial inequality and violence, we wanted to look back at someone who conc...
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The Postal Service
Episode Date: September 10, 2020The US Postal Service has played a role throughout American history - from the Declaration of Independence to today's mail-in voting. It was conceived...
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Reframing History: Mass Incarceration
Episode Date: September 3, 2020The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those prisoners are Black. What are the...
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Reframing History: Bananas
Episode Date: August 27, 2020The banana is a staple of the American diet and has been for generations. But how did this exotic tropical fruit become so commonplace? How one Brookl...
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Reframing History: The Commentator
Episode Date: August 20, 2020Today the foundations of philosophy are seen as a straight line from Western antiquity, built on thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. But, between th...
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Reframing History: The Litter Myth
Episode Date: August 13, 2020There is more waste in the world today than at any time in history, and the responsibility for keeping the environment clean too often falls on indivi...