So What & Who Cares? (with Heather Cox Richardson & Joanne Freeman)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On this episode of Stay Tuned, “So What & Who Cares?” Preet answers listener questions about his efforts to have a word added to the dictionary, and the unique nature of grand juries. Then, Preet interviews award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman, who are the co-hosts of the new CAFE podcast, Now & Then. The first episode is out now. Just search and follow “Now & Then” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Don’t miss the bonus for CAFE Insiders, where the historians discuss whether they ever disagree, Joanne’s unusual housepet, and 1970s popular culture. Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis by Elie Honig, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges. Head to cafe.com/brief. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is produced by CAFE Studios. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.
0:05.0	I'm Pete Barara.
0:07.0	If you think about it about the only thing that distinguishes humans from any other animal
0:13.2	population is our ability to make sense of the passage of time by telling stories about
0:17.7	it.
0:18.7	It helps define who we are.
0:21.4	That's the process of decoding and understanding history is figuring out who we are, where
0:26.9	we came from and where we can go.
0:35.6	That's Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman.
0:38.1	They are two of the most distinguished historians of our time.
0:41.3	Heather is a professor at Boston College where she teaches 19th century American history.
0:46.0	And Joanne is a professor at Yale, where she focuses on the revolutionary era and the founding
0:50.7	of the Republic.
0:52.2	Heather and Joanne are also the co-hosts of a new history podcast called Now and Then, from
0:57.0	Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:00.1	The first episode is out now and it focuses on the blurred line between foreign and domestic
1:04.6	policy, both in the Biden administration and at key moments in American history.
1:09.2	I'm so pleased to welcome Heather and Joanne to the Cafe team to work with them and to
1:14.1	learn from them.
1:15.1	Today, they join me for a wide-ranging conversation about why they decided to start the podcast,
1:20.3	how this is a uniquely fraught moment for American democracy and whether we are getting
1:24.3	better at acknowledging the dark chapters of our history.
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