BackStory
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212: The Melting Pot: Americans & Assimilation
1 hour 1 minutes Posted Jul 20, 2018 at 9:00 am.
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This week, Brian, Joanne, and Nathan wrestle with a long-running tension in our country’s history: what it means to assimilate and “become American.” We’ll explore the 19th-century notions of who could become an American and the ways they were expected to change. Plus, we’ll discuss how much room there was for a hyphenated American identity in the past and if there is room today.

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