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The Causes and Politics of Financial Bubbles
Season 6 Episode 12
What is a financial bubble, and what are its causes? What are the political, as well as economic, impacts of these events? Jeff welcomes investment c…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Did FDR Threaten the Fundamental Freedoms in the Bill of Rights?
Season 6 Episode 11
Historian David Beito joins Jeff this week to discuss the dark side of FDR: a seeming disregard for constitutional process and a lack of respect for …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Willing: The Revolution’s Forgotten Financier
Season 6 Episode 10
When we think of the American Revolution, we usually consider the ideas and animated the patriots and those leaders who organized and directed the wa…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
What Can We Learn from the Antifederalists?
Season 6 Episode 9
The Anti-Federalists are often overlooked in the story of America's founding, but their arguments helped shape the Constitution we live under today. …
6 months ago
James Madison and The Federalist
Season 6 Episode 8
James Madison was one of the two primary authors of The Federalist. What ideas did he promote through his essays? Where did he disagree with the poin…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Read The Federalist
Season 6 Episode 7
The Federalist, or more broadly known as the Federalist Papers, is looked on as the definitive defense of the Constitution as written in 1787, and by…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
George Washington - The Indispensable Founding Father
Season 6 Episode 6
George Washington has been referred to as the “indispensable man,” and was looked to during and after the Revolution as the one person who could be t…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Thomas Jefferson: Essential American Founder
Season 6 Episode 5
Thomas Jefferson: “Author of the Declaration of American Independence [and] of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the Universi…
7 months ago
Huey Long - American Populist
Season 6 Episode 4
Huey Long of Louisiana casts a long shadow over American populist politics. Often cast as a villain or troublemaker, author Thomas Patterson offers a…
7 months, 1 week ago
Women’s Suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the Declaration of Independence
Season 6 Episode 3
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and why is she largely forgotten in popular history? How did she show that the Declaration of Independence promised w…
7 months, 2 weeks ago