Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson

Listening to America (previously the Thomas Jefferson Hour) is an educational and journalistic initiative dedicated to helping Americans better understand one another through exploring our shared past and collective present.

Led by noted historian and humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson, Listening to America travels the country’s less visited byways, from national parks and forests to historic sites to countless under-recognized rural and urban places. Through this exploration, Clay and team find and tell the overlooked historical and contemporary stories that shape America’s people and places. Stories about the future of family farms and agriculture, the water crisis in the West, the changing nature of work, the decline of rural America and more.