America — but Bigger

America — but Bigger

June 16, 2026 · 48 min

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Jen Gerson interviews Mark Kawar about his book exploring the history of American expansionism.

In today’s On The Line, host Jen Gerson speaks with Mark Kawar, an amateur historian and journalist whose book America But Bigger explores a surprisingly persistent feature of American history: attempts to expand the United States beyond its current borders. This episode of On The Line is brought to you by BioCanRx, a federally-funded Canadian not-for-profit research network helping Canadian researchers bring treatments from labs to patients in clinical trials –– all in Canada. Cancer c...

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