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Contemporary Conversations: War with China?
Season 3 Episode 9
Jeff sits down with Rebecca Heinrichs, an authority on national security issues, to discuss the challenge - and even threat - that the Chinese Commun…
2 years, 11 months ago
Documents and Debates: The President and the Freedom Fighter
Season 3 Episode 8
Jeff and Brian Kilmeade discuss his book, The President and the Freedom Fighter, and the central role Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass played i…
3 years ago
American Portraits: Ulysses S. Grant
Season 3 Episode 7
Jeff talks with Dr. Andy Lang about U.S. Grant - as a soldier, general, and president.
Host: Jeff Sikkenga
Executive Producer: Greg McBrayer
Producer: …
3 years ago
American Portraits: Calvin Coolidge
Season 3 Episode 6
Jeff sits down with Amity Shlaes, Chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, to discuss the ideas and importance of Calvin Coolidge, an ov…
3 years ago
Documents & Debates: War - What's It Good For? The Expansion of Presidential Emergency Powers from the Founding to the Present
Season 3 Episode 5
Co-host John Moser is joined by Ben Slomski of Ashland University discuss the origins and original understandings of presidential war powers, and how…
3 years ago
Contemporary Conversations: January 2023: The New Congress - Analysis and Historical Commentary
Season 3 Episode 4
Jeff is joined by Joe Postell of Hillsdale College discuss the evolution of Congressional rules processes in light of the recent assumption of the ma…
3 years, 1 month ago
Documents and Debates: American? Or Victim of America? MLK and Malcom X
Season 3 Episode 3
Jeff and Lucas Morel, on this special MLK Day episode, discuss the ideas, actions, and legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King jr. and Malcolm X. What wer…
3 years, 1 month ago
Contemporary Conversations: Back to School and the State of American Education
Season 3 Episode 2
Join Jeff as he Bill McClay discuss the state of American civics education, with an eye toward free expression, what's being taught, and how individu…
3 years, 1 month ago
Documents & Debates: The Final Emancipation Proclamation
Season 3 Episode 1
Jeff is joined by Dr. Jason Stevens of Ashland University and the Ashbrook Scholar program to discuss the 160th anniversary of one of the most import…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ronald Reagan and the Fight for Freedom
Season 2 Episode 51
Jeff sits down with Chris Burkett and Greg McBrayer to discuss Ronald Reagan's famed speech at the Brandenburg Gate on 12 June 1987, in which the pre…
3 years, 1 month ago