How do we even describe this country, especially today? It’s impossible to even imagine the expanse of this place. Whose stories do we tell when we can’t even all agree on our past, or trust one another to imagine the future?
Which is why we’ve picked this big country, and even bigger idea of a country, as our theme.
We’re going to bring you podcast excerpts that offer four very specific lenses for looking at America and Americanness. From Jamestown to the National Parks to American English to St. Augustine, we’re going to explore this big, crazy, beautiful, baffling country, Hub & Spoke style.
This episode is hosted and edited by Wade Roush. Production assistance from Tamar Avishai. Music by Evalyn Parry.
Listen to the full episodes:
* Official trailer: “The Rabbis Go South”
* Iconography, “John Smith, Admiral of New England”
* Out There, “America’s Best Idea?”
* The Lonely Palette, “Ansel Adams' The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1942)”
* Subtitle, “Americans, Brits and the foreignness of English”
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