The Road to Now

In 2006, Bob Crawford (The Avett Brothers) & Dr. Benjamin Sawyer (MTSU History) sat down to talk history in a Detroit coffee shop. Their discussion lasted a couple hours, but the conversation kept going. Join them as they trace the road between past and present with the help of great thinkers from the academy, the media, politics, entertainment and more.

I Can’t Breathe: Surviving the Dual Pandemics of Racism and Covid-19 w/ Louis Woods 06/29/2020

#175 The Death of Expertise w/ Tom Nichols 06/22/2020

#174 Direction w/ Michael Bonfiglio 06/15/2020

#173 The South w/ Trae Crowder 06/01/2020

#172 Fourth Anniversary Party 05/18/2020

#171 Baseball in Context w/ Jayson Stark 05/11/2020

#170 Soviet Soldiers and the Red Army in World War II w/ Brandon Schechter 05/04/2020

# 169 The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached w/ Mark Doyle 04/27/2020

Technology and the Mind w/ Nicholas Carr 04/20/2020

#168 Breaking Down the 5G Conspiracy w/ Stacy Wood 04/13/2020

#167 The Outbreak Narrative w/ Priscilla Wald 04/06/2020

#166 Everything’s Going To Be Okay 03/30/2020

#165 Saving America’s Cities w/ Lizabeth Cohen 03/23/2020

#164 What('s) A Disaster 03/16/2020

The History of Coal w/ Chuck Keeney 03/09/2020

#163 The Avett Brothers Archive w/ Tim Mossberger 02/24/2020

#162 The Presidents’ Day Rundown 02/17/2020

#161 Food in the Era of Adulteration w/ Benjamin Cohen 02/10/2020

#160 NASCAR and Moonshine w/ Kyle Petty and Dan Pierce (Recorded Live at the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, NC) 02/06/2020

#159 The History of Charlotte, NC w/ Thomas Hanchett & Pam Kelley (Recorded Live at the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, NC) 02/03/2020

#158 Live in Carrboro, NC- Charisma in American Politics & Society w/ Molly Worthen, Doug Heye & Rufus Edmisten (Recorded at Cat’s Cradle) 01/27/2020

#157 The State of the Union w/ Matt Negrin 01/20/2020

#156 Executive Boundaries 01/13/2020

#155 Uncivil Christmas w/ Carson Hudson 12/23/2019

#154 America's First War on Christmas w/ Bruce Carlson 12/16/2019

#153 Floating Coast: The Environmental History of the Bering Strait w/ Bathsheba Demuth 12/02/2019

#152 Building Community and Breaking Barriers w/ Digital Humanities (Recorded Live at ASEEES 2019) 11/25/2019

#151 Live in Chicago w/ Pete Souza & Erin Welsh (recorded at Beverly Arts Center) 11/18/2019

#150 Life on the Road 11/11/2019

#149 The History of Hong Kong w/ Mindy Smith 11/04/2019