For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
In 1924, Congress put in place strict quotas that impacted national immigration policy for decades. Interweaving her own family’s story, New York Times deputy national editor Jia Lynn Yang uncovers how presidents from Harry S. Truman through LBJ and a coalition of lawmakers and activists fought to transform the American immigration system.
Recorded on September 11, 2020
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One
John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years
John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
Conflict: The Evolution of Modern Warfare
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Sicily, Italy, and North Africa
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Beyond the White House: From George Washington to Donald Trump
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House
Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
American Republics, 1783–1850: Slavery, Native Americans, and American Identity
American Republics, 1783–1850: Democracy and Empire
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Flora MacDonald: Journey to the New World and the Revolutionary War
Flora Macdonald: The Escape of “Bonnie” Prince Charlie
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Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
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