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Archives of the show until 2018. For recent archives, go to: The Marc Steiner Show at the Real News Network

January 5, 2015
Michael Pollan
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From The Archives: Michael Pollan On Transforming The Food System

January 2, 2015 - Segment 3 - Michael Pollan is the author of best-selling books like The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. He is to food what Al Gore is to climate change. He joined Marc for a conversation about food, farm policy, the environment, politics, and more.
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January 5, 2015
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
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From The Archives: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

January 2, 2015 - Segment 2 - Marc talks with historian Thomas Sugrue, whose latest book is an examination of the struggle for equal rights in the North. So much of the history of the movement has focused on the work in the South and on the work of Southern groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. But in America’s northern cities, all was not equal and calm.
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January 5, 2015
Miss Anne in Harlem
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From The Archives: The White Women Of The Harlem Renaissance

January 2, 2015 - Segment 1 - We talk with author Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University, about her book Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, which focuses on a small group of white women who crossed the color line and played controversial yet significant roles in the Harlem Renaissance.
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January 2, 2015
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December 23: This Day in History

December 23, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day including, President Warren G. Harding's "Christmas Amnesty" which granted clemency for 23 political prisoners, and the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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December 22, 2014
basquiat
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December 22: This Day in History

December 22, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the birth of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the conviction of French Army Officer Alfred Dreyfus in a court martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism.
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December 19, 2014
Julia "Butterfly" Hill
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December 18: This Day In History

December 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of actor and activist Ossie Davis, the day environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill came down from the ancient Redwood tree she staged a two-year protest in, and the start of the Arab Spring Uprisings.
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December 18, 2014
Simon Bolivar
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December 17: This Day in History

December 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including when Simón Bolívar declared the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela), the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti, and Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
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December 18, 2014
William Cooper Nell
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December 16: This Day In History

December 16, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, the birthday of African American historian William Cooper Nell, and NAACP co-founder Fanny Garrison Villard.
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December 17, 2014
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December 15: This Day in History

December 15, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history including the murder of Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull, the day we lost civil rights leader Septima Poinsette Clark, and the American Psychiatric Association voting unanimously to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders.
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December 17, 2014
Abraham Lincoln
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From The Archives: Dr. Eric Foner On Abraham Lincoln & Slavery

December 12, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen back to our interview with esteemed historian Dr. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, who talks about his 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
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December 14, 2014
Lola Ridge
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December 12: This Day In History

December 12, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day we lost composer Henry Thacker Burleigh, the day Benjamin Banneker completed the first clock made entirely in America, and the birthday of poet Lola Ridge.
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December 12, 2014
Housing Segregation
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Ferguson, Staten Island & Baltimore: How Housing Apartheid Created The Basis For Police Brutality

December 10, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to analysis and discussion on how the history of housing apartheid created the basis for deep-seated racism and police brutality. Our guests will examine the current social and political landscapes of Ferguson, Staten Island, and Baltimore, and reflect upon how events in our history created a foundation for where we are today.
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December 12, 2014
Selma Lagerlof
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December 10: This Day In History

December 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Selma Lagerlof became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the day Nelson Mandela signed the South African Constitution into law, and the day comedian Richard Pryor passed away.
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December 8, 2014
Mary Mcleod Bethune
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December 5: This Day In History

December 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, the day Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, and the day Phillis Wheatley, the first African American woman to have her work published, died.
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December 4, 2014
United Farm Workers' grape boycot
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December 4: This Day In History

December 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded, the day the U.S. Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations, and the day Cesar Chavez was jailed for 20 days for refusing to end the United Farm Workers' grape boycott.
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December 4, 2014
Frederick Douglass, North Star
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December 3: This Day In History

December 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Andrew Jackson became President of the United States, the day Fredrick Douglass published the first edition of the North Star, and the day Bob Marley was shot twice near his home in Jamaica in an assassination attempt.
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December 2, 2014
odetta
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December 2: This Day in History

December 2, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1859 hanging of abolitionist John Brown for his raid on harpers Ferry, West Virginia, riots breaking out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, and the death of folk singer and activist Odetta.
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December 1, 2014
Madame Tussauds
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December 1: This Day In History

December 1, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc discusses what happened on this day in history, including the day slavery was abolished in the Cape Colony, the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and the day French sculptor Marie Tussaud was born.
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December 1, 2014
Richard Wright
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November 28: This Day In History

November 28, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day author Richard Wright passed away, the day the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker was founded, and the birthday of educator Helen Magill White, who was the first woman to earn a PhD.
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December 1, 2014
Gyasi Ross
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Native American Perspectives On Ferguson Decision & Thanksgiving

November 26, 2014 - Segment 2 - As we look to the Thanksgiving Holiday, we host a Native American Roundtable. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Gyasi Ross and Ashley Minner share their perspectives on Thanksgiving and also reflect on the Ferguson Grand Jury decision.
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December 1, 2014
Ed Wilson
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November 26: This Day In History

November 26, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Baltimore-born sculptor Ed Wilson passed away, the day Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday, and the day hall of fame abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth died.
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December 1, 2014
Flip Wilson
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November 25: This Day In History

November 25, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day comedian and actor Flip Wilson died, the day a group of Confederate operatives called the Confederate Army of Manhattan made an unsuccessful attempt to burn down NYC, and the day Joe Gans, the first American-born African American to win a world boxing championship, was born in Baltimore.
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November 30, 2014
Percy Ellis Sutton
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November 24: This Day In History

November 24, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day lawyer and civil rights activist Percy Ellis Sutton was born, the day Charles Darwin published 'On The Origin of Species,' and the day Mother's Day founder Anna Jarvis passed away.
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November 29, 2014
Margaret Burroughs
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November 21: This Day In History

November 21, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day North Carolina became a state, the day Shaw University was founded, becoming the first university for African Americans in the South, and the day poet and artist Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs died.
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November 24, 2014
AIM
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November 20: This Day in History

November 20, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the start of the Nuremberg trials in Germany, Native American activists seizing control of Alcatraz Island, and the execution Zumbi, the last of the leaders of fugitive African settlement, Quilombos dos Palmares.
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November 21, 2014
Sojourner Truth
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November 19: This Day In History

November 19, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the birthday of abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the day labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill was executed, and the day the United States' Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
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November 18, 2014
justsayno
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November 18: This Day in History

November 18, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including President Kennedy sending 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam, the 1978 Peoples Temple mass murder/suicide, andRonald Reagan signing a bill into law allowing for a Cabinet-level drug czar and the death penalty for drug traffickers.
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November 17, 2014
Aunt Jemima
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November 17: This Day In History

November 17, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Theodora Ann “Tidye” Pickett, the first African American woman to compete for the United States in the Olympic Games, died, the day President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook", and the birthday of storyteller and cook Nancy Green, who became Aunt Jemima.
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November 17, 2014
When the United States Spoke French
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Dr. Francois Furstenberg’s ‘When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation’

November 14, 2014 - Segment 4 - We speak to Dr. Francois Furstenberg about his new book 'When the United States Spoke French'. The book follows a group of French émigrés who fled the French Revolution and settled in Philadelphia, where they integrated into some of the most exalted political and financial networks of the young nation.
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November 17, 2014
Nellie Bly
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November 14: This Day In History

November 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day journalist Nellie Bly began her attempt to travel around he world in less than 80 days, the day the NAACP led protests against the showing of the racist film Birth of a Nation, and the day educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, died.
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November 17, 2014
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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November 13: This Day In History

November 13, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott after the Supreme Court decision calling racial segregation on public buses unconstitutional, the birthday of feminist activist and writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the day anti-war protesters staged a symbolic March Against Death in Washington, D.C.
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November 14, 2014
leggett
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African Americans and the War of 1812

November 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - Vince Leggett, historian, founder of Blacks of the Chesapeake, and author of “The Chesapeake Bay Through Ebony Eyes” joins us to talk about African Americans during the War of 1812. Vince Leggett will speak this weekend at the Creative Alliance.
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November 14, 2014
berlin
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November 10: This Day in History

November 10, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including Kristallnacht, when anti-Jewish pogroms took place across Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the passing of UN Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism and racism.
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November 10, 2014
Taylor Branch
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Voices From The Archives: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Taylor Branch

November 7, 2014 - Segment 5 - I talk with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian whose trilogy America in the King Years chronicles the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement.
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November 10, 2014
Mark Bowden
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Voices From The Archives: Author Mark Bowden

November 7, 2014 - Segment 4 - I talk with Mark Bowden, author of many books including Black Hawk Down, about his 2006 work Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.
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November 10, 2014
Arizona’s refusal to observe a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
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November 7: This Day In History

November 7, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of what happened on this day in history, including the day Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the day in 1990 when the National Football League responded to the state of Arizona’s refusal to observe a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday by rescinding their plan to hold the 1993 Super Bowl in Phoenix.
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November 10, 2014
Art Modell's 1995 announcement that he planned to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore
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November 6: This Day in History

November 6, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the election of Jefferson Davis to the presidency of the Confederacy, Art Modell's 1995 announcement that he planned to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore,and the birth of author Michael Cunningham.
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November 10, 2014
Susan B. Anthony
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November 5: This Day In History

November 5, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day American slave leader Nat Turner was tried, convicted and sentenced to death, the day Susan B. Anthony first voted, and the day civil rights activist Channing Heggie Tobias died.
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November 10, 2014
Battle of Wabash
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November 4: This Day In History

November 4, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day the NSA was established in the United States, the birthday of American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and the day The Western Confederacy of American Indians won a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
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November 4, 2014
greensboro
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November 3: This Day in History

November 3, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc shares some of the events that happened on this day in history, including the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when five members of the Communist Workers Party were shot by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally, John Willis Menard becoming the first African American elected to the US Congress, and the death of Annie Oakley.
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November 4, 2014
Harry Houdini
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October 31: This Day In History

October 31, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day Tennessee sent in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County, the day circus and vaudeville performer Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump Stratton was born, and the day Harry Houdini died.
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October 30, 2014
Harriet Powers
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October 30: This Day In History

October 30, 2014 - Segment 1 - Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day African American quilter Harriet Powers was born, the day Jam Master Jay from Run-DMC was murdered, and the day Pontiac informed Major Henry Gladwin that he wanted peace and an end to the fighting at Fort Detroit.
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October 30, 2014
emancipation
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Maryland Emancipation Day

October 29, 2014 - Segment 2 - We celebrate the 150th anniversary of a very special day in history, Maryland Emancipation Day, which commemorates the day Maryland became the first slave state to free its slaves by popular vote, when the Maryland Legislature adopted a new state constitution that emancipated them.
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