Reconnecting Roots

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The Recording Industry: Off The Record, Into The Cloud
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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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Religion: Church in States
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From tents to steeples to megachurches: how religious groups have divided, multiplied, and united Americans for generations.
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Irish Immigrants: Emerald Isle to Ellis Island
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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.
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Travel: Migration to Mobility
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Wagons Ho, Now Boarding, Stand Clear, Closing Doors: journeying back to the ways we traveled and how they changed the reasons why we travel.
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Hunting: Field to Fork
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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.
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Native Americans: An Uncommon History
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A complicated and forgotten history: How the (stolen) land of the free neglected to make a home for the braves.
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Trains: Tracking Progress
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From transcontinental progress to high speed success: how trains catapulted America into the future while never fully leaving the stations of our hearts.