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Inventing America is a micro-documentary style podcast that uncovers the untold stories of forgotten inventors who quietly shaped the modern world. Each episode brings to life the minds behind everyday tools, life-saving technologies, and groundbreaking ideas—figures whose names were lost to history, but whose work still powers our lives today. From rocket fuel to hybrid cars, respirators to bulletproof vests, Inventing America goes beyond the headlines to explore invention, obscurity, and legacy. If you love stories like Hidden Brain, 99% Invisible, or Revisionist History, this is for you.

Witness powerful stories about the effects and realities of living in a prejudiced society in this audio bundle of classic Black narratives. These selections are both fictional and nonfictional stories of living in a society that devalues and dehumanizes the lives of Black people. Though all four of these books were written more than a hundred years ago, the realities within are still important for modern audiences to understand.

The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no religion. The great majority of these religious "nones" also say that they used to belong to a religion but no longer do. These are the nonverts: think "converts," but from having religion to having none. There are currently about fifty-nine million of them in the United States.