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Documents & Debates: Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
Season 3 Episode 13
Jeff discusses Ronald Reagan’s efforts to peacefully end the Cold War with Will Inboden, Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Contemporary Conversations: Censorship and Banned Books
Season 3 Episode 12
Jeff and Flagg Taylor, of Skidmore College, discuss the thorny topic of censorship and its two main forms, that from the government, and that coming …
3 years, 2 months ago
American Portraits: The Western in American Political Culture
Season 3 Episode 11
Jeff and Chris Burkett discuss the unique place of the Western, as presented in literature and film, in American political culture. There's a lot mor…
3 years, 2 months ago
Contemporary Conversations: The 1619 Project and Telling America's Story
Season 3 Episode 10
Jeff and Miles Smith IV discuss the 1619 Project and why it’s poorly-done as a piece of history and that in fact, it’s not history and should not be …
3 years, 3 months ago
Contemporary Conversations: War with China?
Season 3 Episode 9
Jeff sits down with Rebeccah Heinrichs, an authority on national security issues, to discuss the challenge - and even threat - that the Chinese Commu…
3 years, 3 months ago
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…
3 years, 3 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago