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Randall Eliason, On Senator Bob Menendez's First Political Corruption Trial
In a dip into the Q&A archives, an interview from 2017 with former federal prosecutor and George Washington University Law School professor Randall E…
2 years, 5 months ago
FEED DROP: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay "The Federalist Papers"
Colleen Sheehan, Arizona State University Professor, discusses the early life and times of the Federalist's three authors. She explains how their liv…
2 years, 6 months ago
Cliff Sloan, "The Court at War"
Georgetown University law professor Cliff Sloan, author of "The Court at War," talks about the civil rights and civil liberties cases taken up by the…
2 years, 6 months ago
Richard Striner, "Ike in Love and War"
Historian Richard Striner talks about his book "Ike in Love and War," about the personal life and career of Dwight D. Eisenhower, covering everything…
2 years, 6 months ago
Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"
Presidential historian and author Richard Norton Smith discusses his biography of President Gerald Ford titled "An Ordinary Man." He talks about Ford…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jean Twenge, "Generations"
San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge discusses her book "Generations," about the differences between the six generations – The…
2 years, 7 months ago
Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.
Our guest is Shahan Mufti's, who's new book, American Caliph, recounts an event that's been lost to history-- the March 9th, 1977 Hanafi Muslim siege…
2 years, 7 months ago
James Rosen, "Scalia"
By advancing his judicial philosophies of "originalism" and "textualism," Antonin Scalia became one of the 20th century's most influential justices. …
2 years, 7 months ago
Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848
In this episode, you'll meet Ilyon Woo, author of a new bestseller-- "Master Slave, Husband Wife." She recounts the harrowing journey of self-emancip…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"
A year before Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School was desegregated, 12 Black students in Clinton, Tennessee, enrolled, by court mandate, in Cli…
2 years, 7 months ago