Axelbank Reports History and Today

Evan Axelbank

"Axelbank Reports History and Today: Conversations with America’s top non-fiction authors and why their books matter right now" approaches our past and present in a way that makes anyone want to listen. National-award winning TV news reporter Evan Axelbank interviews writers of history and current events to explore how America works and how it has been shaped by both the powerful and the powerless. In conversational and engaging fashion, listeners learn about the most important events, themes and figures in American history. This podcast shows why we have no choice but to understand where we have been, to know wh...

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Axelbank Reports History and Today

Episodes (200)

Mar 24th #199: Megan Kate Nelson - "The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier"
Mar 10th #198: Andrew Porwancher - "American Maccabee - Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews"
Feb 24th #197: Gloria Browne-Marshall - "A Protest History of the United States"

Axelbank Reports History and Today

Mar 24, 2026
60 minutes
41 MB

From the publisher: "From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American culture. The Westerners tells two richly detailed and interwoven stories. The first reveals the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants—in the 19th century. The second tracks the attempts of many Americans to erase these westerners from history, through a frontier myth that lionized individualism and conq...

Axelbank Reports History and Today

#199: Megan Kate Nelson - "The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier"

Evan Axelbank

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