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Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the middle of it. From ancient civilizations to forgotten figures, we take you directly to the moments that shaped our world. Throughline is hosted by Peabody Award-winning journalists Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei.Subscribe to Throughline+. You'll be supporting the history-reframing, perspective-shifting, time-warping stories you can't get enough of - and you'll unlock access bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org/throughline
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Throughline podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
One Wrong Step

#2 Mentioned in 4 episodes
1984

#3 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Women Against Abortion
Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century

#4 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Resist

#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Essential Rumi
Translations by Coleman Barks

#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
American by Birth, Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship

#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The 1619 Project

#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The road to serfdom

#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
You Are Not American

#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Obstacle Course
The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America

#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
A paradise built in hell
the extraordinary communities and strange joys that arise in disasters

#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Jungle

#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
LEVIATHAN

#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Humankind
A Hopeful History

#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Left Behind
A Novel of the Earth's Last Days

#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The interpretation of dreams

#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Crucible

#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Oracle of Night, The History and Science of Dreams

#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Before the Mayflower

#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Free to choose
a personal statement