Comedian, writer, and podcaster <a href="https://www.jamieloftus.xyz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jamie Loftus</a> has always known about Alcoholics Anonymous. As a kid, she loved the album where her dad kept all his AA chips — that little piece of plastic that marks a day, a month, a year of sobriety. Now as an adult, Jamie wanted to understand where that little chip came from. What she found is that imbued in that little chip is a hidden history — from Prohibition to women’s suffrage — of America’s relationship to gender, religion, and morality.<a href="https://99pi.org/100" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A History of the United States in 100 Objects</a> is a production of <a href="https://99percentinvisible.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">99% Invisible</a> and <a href="https://www.bbcstudios.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BBC Studios</a>.
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