Reconnecting Roots

Trains: Tracking Progress

26m 43s

From transcontinental progress to high speed success: how trains catapulted America into the future while never fully leaving the stations of our hearts.

Episodes

Trains: Tracking Progress

S2 E7 - 26m 43s

From transcontinental progress to high speed success: how trains catapulted America into the future while never fully leaving the stations of our hearts.
Native Americans: An Uncommon History

S2 E6 - 27m 2s

A complicated and forgotten history: How the (stolen) land of the free neglected to make a home for the braves.
Hunting: Field to Fork

S2 E5 - 27m 2s

From survival, to privilege, to sport: how one of our most fundamental means for living led to extinction of life and consequently created a means and system to preserve it.
Travel: Migration to Mobility

S2 E4 - 27m 2s

Wagons Ho, Now Boarding, Stand Clear, Closing Doors: journeying back to the ways we traveled and how they changed the reasons why we travel.
Irish Immigrants: Emerald Isle to Ellis Island

S2 E3 - 27m 2s

From the land of the green to the land of the Free: why so many Irish left for America and why it’s worth looking back on.
Religion: Church in States

S2 E2 - 27m 2s

From tents to steeples to megachurches: how religious groups have divided, multiplied, and united Americans for generations.
The Recording Industry: Off The Record, Into The Cloud

S2 E1 - 27m 2s

Gabe visits Jack White's Third Man Pressing to find out if the vinyl resurgence is just a fad, or if it's here to stay.

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