Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCreating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
Season 3 Episode 21
Kentucky fought alongside the Union for the entirety of the Civil War, yet in the decades that followed, the state embraced many political and cultur…
2 years, 5 months ago
Mourning the Presidents
Season 3 Episode 20
In an incisive analysis of national mourning following the deaths of presidents across US history, historian Lindsay Chervinsky joins David M. Rubens…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Age of Lincoln
Season 3 Episode 19
The arc of Abraham Lincoln’s political career existed in the context of the ideologically tumultuous 19th century. From a period of cultural pessimis…
2 years, 6 months ago
Coolidge
Season 3 Episode 18
In the wake of a pandemic and amidst deep partisan divisions and a looming budgetary crisis, Calvin Coolidge faced monumental challenges when he assu…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part Two
Season 3 Episode 17
Jonathan Freedland once again joins David Rubenstein to discuss the story of Walter Rosenberg, one of the few Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One
Season 3 Episode 16
In April of 1944, Walter Rosenberg escaped from Auschwitz alongside Fred Wetzler, making them two of a very small number of Jews who were able to esc…
2 years, 7 months ago
John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years
Season 3 Episode 15
Biographer James Traub continues the story of John Quincy Adams. Drawing on the sixth US president’s diaries, letters, and writings, Traub discusses …
2 years, 7 months ago
John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency
Season 3 Episode 14
As the son of a Founding Father and with a political career that lasted until his death in 1848, John Quincy Adams was eulogized by many of his peers…
2 years, 7 months ago
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
Season 3 Episode 13
Described by former mayor Ed Koch as “the closest we’ve got to royalty in New York City,” the Morgenthau family immigrated from Germany to the United…
2 years, 8 months ago
Conflict: The Evolution of Modern Warfare
Season 3 Episode 12
The conflicts that have marked the past 60 years have seen new weapons, new strategies, and complex new webs of alliance, enmity, and proxy violence.…
2 years, 8 months ago