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American Elections: 1912
Season 3 Episode 48
We’ve reached the twentieth century and today’s episode is about the decisive election of 1912. David and Gary discuss the year when the Republicans …
1 year, 9 months ago
American Elections: 1896
Season 3 Episode 47
This episode in our series on the Ideas Behind American Elections looks at 1896, when a single speech nearly upended American politics. The speech wa…
1 year, 10 months ago
American Elections: 1860
Season 3 Episode 46
In the third episode in our series on the Ideas Behind American Elections David and Gary talk about what was maybe the most significant election of a…
1 year, 10 months ago
American Elections: 1828
Season 3 Episode 45
For the second episode in our new series on the Ideas Behind American Elections, David and Gary discuss 1828: the first great populist election, whic…
1 year, 10 months ago
American Elections: 1800
Season 3 Episode 44
In the first episode of our new series on the Ideas Behind American Elections, David and historian Gary Gerstle explore the presidential contest of 1…
1 year, 10 months ago
Q & A: Shakespeare, Gulliver and Trump
Season 2 Episode 43
In an extra episode this week David answers your questions about the most recent series of the History of Ideas - in particular about the political l…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Fathers and Sons
Season 2 Episode 42
This week’s Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergene…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Mary Stuart
Season 2 Episode 41
This week’s Great Political Fiction is Friedrich Schiller’s monumental play Mary Stuart (1800), which lays bare the impossible choices faced by two q…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Gulliver’s Travels
Season 2 Episode 40
This week’s episode on the great political fictions is about Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) – part adventure story, part satire of early-…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Coriolanus
Season 2 Episode 39
In the first episode of our new series on the great political fictions, David talks about Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (1608-9), the last of his tragedie…
1 year, 11 months ago