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Back to SearchJohn Adams: His Life and Legacy
Season 5 Episode 5
In addition to being America’s first vice president and second president, Founding Father John Adams was a diplomat, the father of another president,…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History
Season 5 Episode 4
For generations, the teaching of American history has often glossed over the important role Native communities have played in shaping the nation, but…
10 months ago
Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution
Season 5 Episode 3
If ever there was proof that opposites attract, it was the friendship between the personally and politically conservative Edmund Burke and the libera…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Season 5 Episode 2
Shaped by crises at home and abroad, John Adams’s presidency became a proving ground for the nation’s fragile new government. Historian Lindsay M. Ch…
11 months ago
The Lyndon B. Johnson Years
Season 5 Episode 1
Irrevocably tied to the tragedy of the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson’s political legacy is also marked by his radical push to reimagine Ameri…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (RE-RELEASE)
Please enjoy this re-release of a past episode of For the Ages. New episodes will return Fall 2025.
The women’s suffrage movement was a hard-fought, …
1 year ago
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (RE-RELEASE)
Please enjoy this re-release of a past episode of For the Ages. New episodes will return Fall 2025.
While the Supreme Court is often presented in Ame…
1 year ago
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Please enjoy this re-release of a past episode of For the Ages. New episodes will return Fall 2025.
Bestselling author Walter Isaacson, in conversati…
1 year, 1 month ago
One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America (RE-RELEASE)
Please enjoy this re-release of a past episode of For the Ages. New episodes will return Fall 2025.
Enshrined in our Constitution and etched into our…
1 year, 1 month ago
America’s Ongoing Reconstruction
Season 4 Episode 21
Lasting from 1865 to 1877, Reconstruction in the American South was an aspirational endeavor that brought with it newly enshrined rights for Black Am…
1 year, 2 months ago