Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSlavery and the Constitution: Joseph Ellis
This is the first episode in an occasional series that will focus on slavery, the Constitution, and the ongoing debate over the meaning of the Americ…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Great Inflation
Thomas Hoenig has been worried about the Fed's easy money policies and inflation since the 1970s, the last time rising prices seriously ate into Amer…
4 years, 2 months ago
When America Built Big Things
From the Erie Canal to the intercontinental railroad, from rural electrification projects to the interstate highway system, Americans built the massi…
4 years, 2 months ago
Weimar America
Why do serious historians fear American democracy is hanging by a thread, with parallels to the fall of the Weimar Republic? In this episode, Christo…
4 years, 2 months ago
The End of NATO
Formed by treaty in 1949 to defend Western Europe against the threat, real or perceived, of Soviet aggression, NATO has become the de facto defender …
4 years, 2 months ago
Back to 1776
After The 1619 Project sparked a scholarly uproar over its provocative reinterpretation of U.S. history, the longtime activist and social conservativ…
4 years, 3 months ago
Atoms for Iran
On December 8, 1953, President Eisenhower laid the groundwork for the international diplomacy that would create Iran's nuclear program. In his "Atoms…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Capitol Riot, One Year Later
One year has passed since Donald Trump egged on a mob to attack Congress, the violent culmination of his months-long effort to overturn the president…
4 years, 3 months ago
Biden's Foreign Policy, Year Two
President Joseph Biden is beginning his second year in office facing many of the same foreign policy problems that awaited his arrival in the White H…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Future of Work, Part 2
What will work look like in 2022, or 2032? Will your job still exist? Will you ever have to leave your home for the office again? Or will the robots …
4 years, 3 months ago