American History Tellers

Inspired by the hit podcast American History Tellers, Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

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She's also the author of The World of Juliet Kinsey, Chicago Before the Fire, and editor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago.

Her books include Chicagoland, City and Suburbs of the Railroad Age, and her most recent work, The World of Juliet Kinsey, Chicago Before the Fire.

Inspired by the hit podcast, American History Tellers, Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

Order The Hidden History of the White House now in hardcover or digital edition wherever you get your books.

Here to talk with me is Jim Bendat, one of the nation's leading experts on presidential inauguration history. He has worked as a television correspondent at the last three presidential inaugurations, and he's the author of Democracy's Big Day, The Inauguration of Our President, 1789-2013.

Jim is one of the nation's leading experts on presidential inauguration history. He has worked as a television correspondent at the last three presidential inaugurations and is the author of Democracy's Big Day, the inauguration of our president 1789 to 2013.

His upcoming book, The Road to Blair Mountain, Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal, will be available in January.

I write about this in my book that just comes out, The Road to Blair Mountain.

The Road to Blair Mountain, Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal is available January 2021.

She's an associate professor of American history at Pennsylvania State University and the author of Washington Brotherhood, Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War.

For more information on Plessy v. Ferguson, we recommend We as Free Men by Keith Weldon Medley.

For more information on John Marshall and the early Supreme Court, we recommend Without Precedent by John Richard Paul.

Alex de Tocqueville had famously come to America in the 1830s and the opening line of Democracy in America, and I'm translating from French, there's different translations, but roughly he said the most striking thing about America is the equality of conditions everywhere.

Inspired by the hit podcast, American History Tellers, Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

Order The Hidden History of the White House now in hardcover or digital edition, wherever you get your books.

Then in 1889, Rees published an article entitled How the Other Half Lives in Scribner's Magazine. The following year, he turned it into a book of the same name.

Reading it, upper- and middle-class New Yorkers were shocked to learn of the bleak conditions the poor faced.

From the team behind American History Tellers comes a new book, The Hidden History of the White House. Each chapter will bring you inside the fierce power struggles, intimate moments and shocking scandals that shaped our nation.

Wondery and William Morrow present the new book, The Hidden History of the White House. Each chapter will bring you inside the fierce power struggles, the world-altering decisions and shocking scandals that have shaped our nation.

In 1948, Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a biologist at Indiana University, released a landmark study of human sexuality. The report, called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, was covered broadly in the press. And for the first time, Americans began to talk publicly about their own sexuality.

The study found that homosexuality was far more widespread than Hay had ever guessed. Nearly 40% of men had experienced what the report characterized as homosexual relations. Not only that, but it reported that gay men were proven capable of being happy, healthy individuals, not sick or abnormal.

The tumbling of obscenity laws would also pave the way for popular novels featuring gay characters like James Baldwin's In Another Country and John Retchie's City of Night.

The tumbling of obscenity laws would also pave the way for popular novels featuring gay characters like James Baldwin's In Another Country and John Retchie's City of Night.

If you're interested in reading more about the Space Race, we recommend two great books we drew on for this series. Space Race by Deborah Cadbury

Psychologists grouped homosexuality along with other mental disorders in a book called The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM for short. And with the publication of the 1952 DSM, it became all but impossible to convince anyone that homosexuality was anything but a mental disorder.

and Moonshot, the Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, and Jay Barbree.

Then in 1949, artist Chesley Bonestell released a book called The Conquest of Space. This collection of painted illustrations included lifelike depictions of the moon and other planets up close.