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
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (RE-RELEASE)
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 (RE-RELEASE)
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson (RE-RELEASE)
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (RE-RELEASE)
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
JFK and the Promise of Democracy
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part Two
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part One
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