Lap Nguyen — Podcast Episodes

How did citizen protests help end the cold war?

On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Lap Nguyen and Professor Susan Colbourn unpack the power of citizen protest and the crucial factors that eventually brought the contentious war to a peaceful end.

Season 3, Lap NguyenUnTextbooked PodcastJanuary 5, 2023history, Cold war, soviet union., NATO, protest, citizenship

Is every presidency doomed to fail?

Season 2, Lap Nguyen, FeaturedJeff EmtmanNovember 11, 2021Presidency, United States, founding fathers, constitutions, separation of powers, executive branch, fdr, franklin D roosevelt, new deal, wpa, works progress administration, abraham lincoln, george washington

Germany addressed its racist past. Can America do the same?

Germany’s reckoning with their Nazi past could give America a roadmap for dealing with our long history of racism. UnTextbooked Producer Lap Nguyen interviews Susan Neiman, author of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.