American History Tellers

My object, first of all, is to deliver the Titanic to its owners without further injury so that the great vessel may be rebuilt.

Much of the cargo, or all of it, would be recovered. All the bodies which sank with the doomed ship have long since been embalmed by the action of the seawater, and when they are at last brought back to the surface, they will be easily identifiable and prepared for reverential burial.

And I happened to teach a novel by Zora Neale Hurston called Their Eyes Were Watching God, which is actually ends on a different historical flood, the Lake Okeechobee flood of 1928, which was in many ways more devastating to life than the 1927 flood.

and The Woman's Hour, The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss.

Today, Lindsay speaks with Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and author of "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," about the economic and social changes that took place then, and how they set the stage for modern America.

Your book, The Curse of Bigness, Antitrust in the New Gilded Age indicates that we might be revisiting that era of change.

Wu is a Columbia Law professor and author of The Curse of Bigness, Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.

If you'd like to learn more about the gold rush, we recommend The Age of Gold by H.W. Brands and The Rush by Edward Dolnick.

From Wondery, this is Episode 4 of the sponsor prize-winning Washington Post reporter, Carol Lennick, author of the book, Zero Fail, the Rise and Fall of the Secret Service.

If you'd like to learn more about these events, we recommend the book by the author of the book, Zero Fail.

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.

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and Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Thomas Appel is a teacher, historian, and author of the book Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds, Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic.

I first came upon it as an undergraduate.

It appeared to me to be very sort of arcane and abstract.

His book, Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds, Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic is available now from Stanford University Press.

From the team behind American History Tellers comes a new book, The Hidden History of the White House.

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.

On the next episode of American History Tellers, I speak with Dr. Thomas Appel, historian and author of Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds, Science, and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic.

Dr. Rebecca Simon is a professor of history at Santa Monica College and a leading expert on the history of piracy and crime in colonial America. Her latest book is Pirate Queens, The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

So I want to ask you about your new book, which came out this June called Pirate Queens, The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

And you're looking at transcontinental relationships and colonization and the slave trade. And one of the books we read was called Villains of All Nations, Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age by Marcus Rediker.

So I began researching it. And in my master's, I argued that it was the book Treasure Island that changed our perception and that all pop culture came from that novel.

It comes out in 1883 and it was written by Robert Louis Stevenson, who used the book A General History of the Pirates as his research.

Starring 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.

She's the author of Why We Love Pirates, The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever, and Pirate Queens, The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

So I've just finished the draft of my third book. It's called The Pirate's Code, Life and Laws Aboard the Pirate Ship, and it's basically about life on the pirate ship.