Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnd Iran, Iran So Far Away, From This Deal?
Mary Katharine Ham and Vic Matus discuss the Iran deal, what might be in it and what's not, and whether we are better off than before the war started…
4 months, 1 week ago
#Todayin1776: John Adams Explains Why Jefferson Was Chosen To Write the Declaration
This is from John Adams' later autobiography, but is based on contemporaneous notes, so we'll count it. It gives a great, and frank, assessment of hi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
MK's Friend Had a Terrible Ex Named Graham and Scott Pelley Has No Perspective
Mary Katharine Ham and Vic Matus talk about accusations against Graham Platner, whose name it turns out MK has known for a long time before he ran fo…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#Todayin1776: Maryland Delegates Write Home For Opinions on Independence
This bit of the journals of the Continental Congress from June 10, 1776 illustrates how some delegations were confused as to how to proceed on behalf…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#Todayin1776: George Washington Would Like to Get His Troops Paid, Please
Today in 1776, Gen. George Washington writes to John Hancock about perennial concerns— lack of pay, too-short enlistments of troops, and the lack of …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
#Todayin1776: The Lee Resolution for "Free and Independent States"
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offers the resolution that eventually leads to the Declaration of Independence. Congress adopts the re…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
#Todayin1776: "Necessity Calls for Independence"
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia writes from the Continental Congress to his friend, Landon Carter, a letter previewing the resolution he will eventuall…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
#Todayin1776: Abigail Adams Deals with Politics and the Price of Tea
"I received by Mr. Church a few lines from you; I wish to hear from you every opportunity tho you say no more than that you are well. I feel concernd…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Dr. Jill and the Oysterman Are Here to Gaslight You
Mary Katharine Ham and Vic Matus discuss Jill Biden's book rollout, Graham Platner's many, many scandals, and the A250 concert that wasn't. There is …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
#Todayin1776: John Adams Starts Recording His Letters So Abigail Doesn't Get Mad At Him
John Adams buys an expensive folio on this day and enters his first letter, to his wife. He also buys one for his professional correspondence, and I …
4 months, 3 weeks ago