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Interviews with top historians about their latest work. Mainly educational, often funny. Conveniently, most of the jokes are about people too far underground to punch back. Hosted by Ben Tumin, creator of the NYT-profiled Skipped History web series. skippedhistory.substack.com
Ben Tumin hosts Skipped History, a history show with 123 episodes published.
Today, Jamie Holmes explains how Andrew Jackson launched America’s longest war before Vietnam—with almost no understanding of what he was getting into. In The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chi
Today, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi explains how great replacement theory is an update on Nazi ideology—and why the struggle today is between anti-racist democracy and racist dictatorship. In Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Aut
Today, Scott Anderson explains how Eisenhower got addicted to regime change—and why Trump is following the same pattern. In a recent New York Times Magazine piece, Anderson traces how two early Cold War coups created a d
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com Today, Jon Meacham explains why American history is a perennial struggle—and why that struggle is not the work of a day (though it
Today, Professor Heather Ann Thompson explains how a subway shooting in 1984 became the blueprint for vigilante violence in America, from George Zimmerman to Kyle Rittenhouse to ICE. In Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties
Today, Doug Gordon explains how America almost stopped cars in their tracks. In Life After Cars: A Guide to Getting Around Without Driving, Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear (along with Aaron Naparstek)—hosts of The War On
Today, Professor Miguel Tinker Salas explains how oil transformed Venezuela from a fractured agricultural economy into a nation vulnerable to foreign manipulation—and how the U.S. just attempted regime change “on the che
Today, Professor Benjamin Wilson reveals how “arms control” became a euphemism for endless weapons development—and how the scientists who claimed to oppose the arms race often profited from it. In Strange Stability: How
Today, Dr. Vanessa S. Williamson dismantles some myths about taxes—and reveals how they’ve been weaponized throughout U.S. history. In The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History, Dr.
Today, Jelani Cobb teases out the through lines of his celebrated commentary in The New Yorker—and warns us about some patterns we might’ve been ignoring. In his new essay collection, Dr. Cobb moves from a 1986 shooting
Today, Dr. Brian Jones reframes some stories we thought we knew—and reveals a few others we were never taught. In Black History Is for Everyone, Dr. Jones takes us through Bacon’s Rebellion, the Haitian Revolution, and R
Today, a dose of Malcolm X and a timeless critique of our troubling times. In Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Political Life of Malcolm X, Professor Kehinde Andrews pushes back on myths spread by The Autobiography of Ma
Another week, another late night show host gone: first Stephen Colbert, now Jimmy Kimmel. I think it’s fair to be shocked, but not surprised by Kimmel’s dismissal. As Professor Fara Dabhoiwala told me, there’s long been
For anyone in NYC, the encore of my live, comedic show about Robert Moses is Monday (9/8) at 7 PM at Caveat (on the Lower East Side). In today’s video, I talk about why I’m doing this project now. Would love to see you t
Y'all, this week we have a doozy. We're talking about "the I word"—insurance—and how insurance companies not only profited from, but actively spurred, the burning of American cities in the 1970s. My guest is Professor Be
As summer reaches its peak, I spoke with Aquinnah Wampanoag author Joseph Lee about tribal history on Martha’s Vineyard. We discussed the challenges of maintaining Indigenous identity amid tourism and displacement and wh
With conspiracy theories (one in particular) dominating headlines, I spoke with Professor Philip Kadish about how conspiracies have evolved. We traced the history of racist hoaxes dating back to the mid-1800s and explore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit skippedhistory.substack.com Evening, y’all! Before sending out an interview on conspiracy theories, I wanted to share a few thoughts on the Epstein files. I’v
As we approach our nation’s 250th anniversary (our Semiquincentennial), I’m speaking with some of the country’s most prominent historians, all published by W. W. Norton, to ask them five questions about the founding and
A fight for equality with long odds. An entrenched, bigoted, and powerful right wing. Liberals resistant to critiques from the left. The year wasn’t 2025, but 1963. In Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil
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