On May 4, 2017, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act, the first step towards fulfilling the GOP’s promise of “repealing and replacing” the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. But already what used to be a winning issue for Republicans appears to be turning against them. This is but the latest shift in a rich history of healthcare in America. Host John Fea and producer Drew Dyrli Hermeling tackle this politically-charged issue. They are joined by historian Nancy Tomes who just collected one of historical scholarship’s highest honors, the Bancroft Prize, for her book Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers, out now with the University of North Carolina Press.
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Episode 104: The Roots of American Public Education
Episode 103: Spiritual Socialists
Episode 102: The Ghosts of Colonial Williamsburg
Episode 101: "Exhibiting Evangelicalism"
Episode 100: Christian Historians as Activists?
Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots
Episode 98: Conversions: Spiritual and Political
Episode 97: In Search of George Washington's Hair
Episode 96: Thinking Historically about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Episode 95: The Lost Promise of American Universities
Episode 94: Gettysburg, 1963
Episode 93: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America
Episode 92: Original Sin and the History of American Democracy
Episode 91: Providential History and the Pacific Northwest
Episode 90: "The Gospel According to Charles Lindbergh"
Episode 89: The Heretical John C. Calhoun
Episode 88: History Education on the Great Plains
Episode 87: Religion and the American Revolution
Episode 86: A Conversation with Eric Miller, Editor of Current
Episode 85: Reckoning with Confederate Monuments
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