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Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Her book explores why we've come to basically equate ...

A new biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, born in Concord in 1890, provides evidence that Flynn, a celebrated and maligned ...

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