To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, historian Beverly Gage took a road trip around the country to visit over three hundred historic sites. Those travels are documented in her new book, This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History. Gage joins us this hour to reflect on what she learned about the country, and what's ahead on this anniversary year.
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- Beverly Gage: The John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Her new book is This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History
Music featured (in order):
- Road Song – Wes Montgomery
- This Land Is Your Land – Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
- Birmingham – Randy Newman
- Song About America – Olive Klug
- America – Simon and Garfunkel
- I See America – Joy Oladokun
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