What are the places that have defined America over the last 250 years? Most Americans likely think of buildings like the White House and Independence Hall, but a country is shaped by more than its politics. Join Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage and columnist Jamelle Bouie for a tour of the United States through thirteen places—museums, historic sites, gift shops, and more—that represent our proudest successes and greatest challenges and continue to teach us, sometimes in unexpected ways, about both our nation and ourselves.
Beverly Gage is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century and, most recently, This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History. Jamelle Bouie (moderator) is a columnist for The New York Times covering politics and law through the lens of American political history.