Everyday Past explores how ordinary American life used to work — and why it changed.

From pensions and starter homes to repair shops, department stores, school shop classes, road trips, appliances, and life before the internet, we tell the stories behind the systems, businesses, habits, and technologies that once shaped everyday life.

This isn't nostalgia for nostalgia's sake. We look at what changed, why it changed, what improved, what disappeared, and how those changes still affect the way Americans live today.

New documentary-style stories about the America within living memory.

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