David Kurlander is a historian currently working on a book about the history of The Bellevue. Before his move to Philadelphia last year, he spent five years at CAFE, part of Vox Media, where he was a producer on the Stay Tuned with Preet interview podcast for former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the Now & Then podcast with historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman. Kurlander was the lead editorial producer for Now & Then, which explored diverse historical elements of the contemporary American political scene, with topics as diverse as lesser-known Constitutional amendments, pets, board games, and space travel.  Kurlander studied History & Literature at Harvard, where he focused primarily on 1970s corporate and cultural history. His thesis, Capture the Rapture: A Cultural History of Malt Liquor, 1950-1980, won the Edwin Chandler Cumming Prize for Thesis of Highest Distinction in History and Literature and inspired him to pursue a broader career in telling 20th century American stories.  Kurlander lives with his wife Zara in Society Hill, where he collects his weekly findings about Philadelphia's rich history in the Substack newsletter Archiveadelphia.