Think Back
Richard Kreitner, Matthew DavisA podcast about American history.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 30 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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What the Frontier Myth Gets Wrong—and Why It Matters
Why does the frontier myth refuse to die?
In this episode of Think Back, I speak with historian and writer Megan Kate Nelson about her new book The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier. The book takes direct aim at...
What Else I’ve Been Doing
Imagine my delight when I opened last weekend’s New York Times Book Review and found Fear No Pharaoh in “Paperback Row,” a list of three books recently out in softcover. I hadn’t known it would be there. The surprise triggered one of those...
The Unfinished Business of 1776
In this episode of Think Back, I speak with historian Thomas Richards Jr. about his new book The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended. Richards opens with a deliberately provocative contrast: was the Revoluti...
How Slavery Ended
In this episode of Think Back, I talk with historian Tom Zoellner about his new book The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War. We dig into a dimension of emancipation that often gets overshadowed by pres...
The Forgotten Movement for a Black State
This episode looks at one of the strangest political experiments in American history: a late-nineteenth-century movement to create an officially Black state in the land that would become Oklahoma. At its center was Edward McCabe, a charisma...
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I'm the host of 'Think Back’ and the author of 'Fear No Pharaoh,' 'Break It Up,' and 'Booked.' I am a contributing writer for The Nation and Hudson Valley magazines.
I am a writer whose newest book about the making and meaning of Mount Rushmore will be published on November 11, 2025.
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