On this episode of American Prestige, Drew McKevitt on how America's postwar gun culture was shaped by surplus arms, consumerism, and the National Rifle Association.
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On this episode of American Prestige, we welcome Drew McKevitt, the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, about his new book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America.
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On this episode of American Prestige, Abby Mullen, assistant professor at the US Naval Academy, joins the program to talk about her book To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805. We explore the conflict, American geopolitics in their infancy, the Barbary States and piracy committed on their behalf at the time, how US naval expeditions in an era without a global network of bases functioned, the myth of the war in "The Marines' Hymn", and more.
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Daniel BessnerTwitterDaniel Bessner is an historian of US foreign relations, and cohost of American Prestige, a podcast on international affairs.
Derek DavisonDerek Davison is a writer and analyst specializing in international affairs and US foreign policy. He is the publisher of the Foreign Exchanges newsletter, cohost of the American Prestige podcast, and former editor of LobeLog.