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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates.  "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review

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THE TIME OF ADJOURMENT CLAUSE AND PRESIDENTIAL POWER

Nov 17, 2024
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STOCKHOLM SYNDROME? HOW A CITY KEPT ITS NAME AND LINCOLN - THREE QUICK STORIES

Nov 14, 2024
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NOW ON PATREON - 14 POINTS ABOUT THE 2024 ELECTION

Nov 10, 2024
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What I said back in 2016

Nov 10, 2024
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WALTER JENKINS: THE LAST-MINUTE NEAR-SCANDAL OF THE 1964 ELECTION

Nov 5, 2024
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THE FINAL DAYS OF THE 1968 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Oct 28, 2024
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NOW ON PATREON: 5 THINGS ABOUT THE 2024 ELECTION NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT

Oct 27, 2024
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VICE PRESIDENTS AS CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT: A LOOK AT HISTORY WITH DAVID PRIESS OF CHATTER PODCAST

Oct 24, 2024
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THE 1848 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PART 2 - PENNSYLVANIA IS THE KEY BATTLE-GROUND, THE "BONE AND SINEW" OF THE ELECTION

Oct 21, 2024
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THE 1848 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: PART 1- RUN, ROUGH AND READY

Oct 14, 2024
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The 1796 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: "Placing us in a Point of Opposition to Each Other"

Oct 7, 2024
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NATE SILVER VS. ALAN LICHTMAN -Predicting with History or Polls? Also: Reagan Campaigning for VP Bush in 1988 and Pennsylvania as a Swing State

Sep 30, 2024
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CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS, DISINFORMATION and Other Things That Have Been Around a While. Also- 25th Amendment and Other Points

Sep 23, 2024
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1860 ELECTION: WHAT YOUR HISTORY TEXTBOOK LEFT OUT

Sep 16, 2024
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All The Stuff That Happens BEFORE THE DEBATE

Sep 6, 2024
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WHY IS THERE AN ELECTORAL COLLEGE?

Sep 2, 2024
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Who is AMOS ELLMAKER? Lincoln Tells a Story, Inkeeps of Old, Finding Marvin Gardens

Sep 1, 2024
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OVER NIAGARA IN A PICKLE BARREL, TALKING BIRDS AND HIDDEN SUBWAYS - Bruce on Useless Information Podcast

Aug 30, 2024
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1864 ELECTION 4-PART SERIES ON PATREON, Q&A, Inflation, Taxes on Tips

Aug 25, 2024
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The ANTI-MASONIC PARTY and Conspiracy Theory Politics Old & New

Aug 22, 2024
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100 YEARS AGO TODAY - A Look at 1924 With Jon Blackwell

Aug 14, 2024
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The KENNEDY NIXON DEBATE That DIDN'T Happen

Aug 9, 2024
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2024 CAMPAIGN SO FAR Thoughts - August 4

Aug 4, 2024
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LYNDON JOHNSON AND THE 1968 DNC: Part II - Dig In

Jul 30, 2024
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LYNDON JOHNSON AND THE 1968 DNC: Part I - "I Will Not Accept"

Jul 27, 2024
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2004: SWIFT BOATS AND PALM PILOTS: Part II of our Two-Part Series

Jul 24, 2024
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2004: BUSH AMWAY OHIO IDEA - Part I of Two-Part Series

Jul 22, 2024
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STATE OF THE RACE Thoughts July 19th

Jul 19, 2024
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FDR and D-DAY

Jul 17, 2024
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14 POINTS About the 2024 ELECTION and Biden, Trump's Upcoming Convention and VP Pick, Podcast Recommendations

Jul 11, 2024
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"IT LOOKED LIKE HELL" - The Story of The 1980 DNC Convention

Jul 10, 2024
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THIRTY-POINT BOUNCE - The 1976 DNC Convention

Jul 8, 2024
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That "OTHER Part" of The DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE: The Grievances and What They Say About Executive Power, Immigration, and Other Issues

Jul 3, 2024
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BIDEN DEBATE Performance, History, 25th Amendment, Other Topics

Jun 30, 2024
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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT w/ Richard Lim of "This American President" Podcast

Jun 24, 2024
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Show Update and a Few Book/Podcast Recommendations

Jun 22, 2024
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The UK GENERAL ELECTION 2024, w/Steve Byrne

Jun 14, 2024
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THE MARSHALL PLAN AND ELECTION 48

Jun 3, 2024
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PATTY HEARST Story, The Child Reporter Who Scooped the Media, Potsdam and More.

May 27, 2024
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Now on our Patreon: 7 More Stories About the 1988 Election, Including China and the 88 Election, Hart Setup? and Nixon

May 24, 2024
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THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING - 1968 Chicago Convention and Election

May 13, 2024
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NIXON VERSUS PLYWOOD INFLATION, AND OTHER Presidential Price Control Stories

May 6, 2024
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HIGH NOON IN TRENTON - John Adams Takes a Stand w/ Jerry Landry of The Presidencies of The United States Podcast

Apr 29, 2024
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Why Do NEBRASKA AND MAINE Vote for President The Way They Do? And Other Esoterica of The 2020 Election

Apr 27, 2024
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GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE SECOND TERM: Undeniably Un-consecutive, The Election of 1892

Apr 27, 2024
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THE ELECTION OF 1916 - Part Three; Not a Man To Be Enthused About

Apr 22, 2024
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THE ELECTION OF 1916: Part Two - He Kept Us Out of War

Apr 18, 2024
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THE ELECTION OF 1916 - Part One: Everything is Different Now

Apr 15, 2024
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NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT:: Part Three - Aaron Burr, Stephen Douglas, and The Soldier Vote

Apr 8, 2024
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NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: Part Two - The Case of Mario Cuomo

Apr 1, 2024
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NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: Part One - Horatio Seymour, Horace Greeley and Others

Mar 25, 2024
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BROWN V. BOARD OF ED OF TOPEKA, Swain, PICS and other School Integration Decisions.

Mar 18, 2024
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STUDENT LOANS; A History of Ed Financing in the United States

Mar 5, 2024
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION and America with Will Clark of "Grey History: The French Revolution and Napoleon Podcast"

Feb 26, 2024
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DISCO DEMOLITION and The First SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY

Feb 22, 2024
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One More Story About The 1988 Presidential Election, and a Show Update

Feb 15, 2024
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YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 6, Theoretical Dukakis

Feb 12, 2024
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YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 5, Squishy Lead

Feb 5, 2024
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YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 4 - Showdown In New York

Jan 22, 2024
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YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 3 - Attack Videotape

Jan 15, 2024
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YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 2 [You Slayed My Dragon]

Jan 8, 2024
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YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 1 - Anybody's Race

Jan 2, 2024
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CARTER 1981

Dec 31, 2023
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CARTER 1979

Dec 30, 2023
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CARTER 1977

Dec 28, 2023
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1980 - HOSTAGE MOM GOES TO IRAN

Dec 27, 2023
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WHISTLESTOP TRAIN CAMPAIGNS w/ Edward Segal

Dec 26, 2023
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Update on UK Politics with Stephen Byrne

Dec 24, 2023
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THE JACKSONIANS and Their Role in Today's Politics - John Ellis

Dec 18, 2023
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FLORIDA MAN; The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part III: A Certain Kind of Hari-Kari

Nov 3, 2023
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FLORIDA MAN: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part II: Boo Me!

Nov 2, 2023
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FLORIDA MAN: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part I: Flashbulbs

Nov 2, 2023
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The Asterisk; BUSH VS. REAGAN 1980

Oct 22, 2023
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BLACK HAWK 'WAR' and Chief Black Hawk - Part Two

Oct 12, 2023
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BLACK HAWK WAR and Chief Black Hawk - Part I

Oct 9, 2023
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Mississippi Bans Sesame Street (From the Useless Information Podcast)

Oct 8, 2023
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LINCOLN ON INFRASTRUCTURE

Sep 25, 2023
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LEBANON 1983 and Other Stories

Sep 10, 2023
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SECRECY AND DEMOCRACY, with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame

Sep 8, 2023
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JOHN QUNICY ADAMS w/ Bob Crawford of The Road to Now Podcast

Aug 28, 2023
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Running For President From Prison

Aug 21, 2023
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Eyewitness Accounts of COLUMBINE, JONESTOWN and Other Events with Josh Cohen of "Eyewitness History Podcast"

Aug 14, 2023
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History Favors Running Incumbent Presidents, Whenever Possible

Aug 1, 2023
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THREE POINT TWO: The Story of NEW DEAL BEER, Science, Government and Common Sense

Jul 17, 2023
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JFK at 106 – Searching for The True Kennedy (Interview with Thomas Oliphant)

Jul 10, 2023
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Playing Cards With the Signers of The Declaration w/ Jason Petri

Jul 3, 2023
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Extras from the "Undeniably Unconsecutive" Grover Cleveland Episode

Jun 30, 2023
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W.E.B. DuBois and The Wounded World w/ Chad L. Williams

Jun 4, 2023
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Can The President Just Use the 14th To Pay the Debt? [From 2014]

May 11, 2023
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The Supreme Court Story of Abe Fortas

Apr 22, 2023
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Introducing - Founding Son: John Quincy's America

Apr 13, 2023
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THE WORD "INFRINGE": History of a Word and The Gun Debate

Mar 30, 2023
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FALL OF USSR: Bonus "Bloknot" (Notebook) Episode

Mar 20, 2023
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FALL OF USSR: Part 6 - Two Bears in a Cave

Mar 6, 2023
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FALL OF USSR: Part 5 - I Cannot Forsake Principles!

Feb 27, 2023
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FALL OF USSR: Part 4 - Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Feb 20, 2023
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FALL OF USSR: Part 3 - Athens vs. Sparta

Feb 13, 2023
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FALL OF USSR: Part 2 - The Steam Bath of History

Feb 8, 2023
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FALL OF USSR: Part 1: Wake Up, Cassandra!

Feb 6, 2023
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About Classified Documents and Politics, and our upcoming USSR cast

Feb 1, 2023
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"WRONG FOREVER ON THE THRONE!" - William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic Party in His Later Years

Jan 18, 2023
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE ELECTION of 1855, 20th Amendment and a Show Update

Jan 8, 2023
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We Need to Talk. About the 72nd Congress.

Dec 26, 2022
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INFLATION VS. SPACE: How The Cost of Things Limited the Space Program

Dec 20, 2022
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Leap to Freedom: Hans Konrad Schumann's Story

Dec 13, 2022
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Drinking With FDR

Dec 12, 2022
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NATIONAL VAHALLA: ALL ABOUT STATUES, MONUMENTS, STATUE REMOVAL

Dec 5, 2022
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Soccer and Repression: The 1978 World Cup in Argentina

Dec 2, 2022
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Close Encounters of the CONGRESS KIND: The (Relatively Few) Times When the House Was Close Between the Parties

Nov 28, 2022
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The Youth Vote: John Lennon's Dream, Nixon's Nightmare

Nov 21, 2022
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You Can't Always Get What You Want? The 2022 Midterm Result, and Listener Questions

Nov 12, 2022
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN WESTMINSTER: A Tale of British Politics

Nov 6, 2022
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Something Happened: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Primary Run

Oct 31, 2022
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1970's EPHEMERA: Dylan Gets a Troll, Ford Gets Shot, Skylab Falls, Howard Cosell Talks Politics

Oct 2, 2022
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Savings and Loan Crisis

Sep 27, 2022
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Midterms: They Don't Always Work Out Badly for Presidents (But Mostly They Do)

Sep 23, 2022
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And to the Republic: Thoughts about Everything Going on in Politics

Aug 27, 2022
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Now That's The Right Way to Lose an Election

Aug 21, 2022
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Benevolent Policeman? The History of Congressional Committees

Aug 15, 2022
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Small Money and Big Hope / Dasher's Run

Aug 2, 2022
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Wills On Duty: The Story of Watergate Security Guard Frank Wills

Jul 24, 2022
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A Midterm Election About Nothing, and Other Stories

Jul 10, 2022
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George B. McClellan Junior Would Like a Word

Jul 4, 2022
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The Underrated Patrick Henry

Jun 13, 2022
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So, There Was No Smoke-Filled Room After All? And Other Presidential Election Stories.

Jun 9, 2022
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What's Going on Across the Pond w/ Steve Byrne of What Am Politics Podcast

Jun 1, 2022
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Free Speech is Easy, and Hard w/ Lynn Greenky of Syracuse University School of Law

May 22, 2022
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Nine Kings, One Room: Introducing the Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast

May 18, 2022
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Stare Decisis and Spider Man, and Other Stories

May 16, 2022
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Like the Visions of a Fever: America in Pre-War 1941

Apr 25, 2022
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Politics and Margarine

Apr 22, 2022
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In The Arena - Adlai Stevenson and Other Losing Candidates w/ Peter Shea

Apr 18, 2022
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Didn't Mean to Make a Country: First Congress, 1774

Apr 11, 2022
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Ukraine and History w/ Ben Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State and "The Road to Now Podcast"

Mar 30, 2022
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Millions Fall: The Destruction of Trees During The Civil War / Taft and Television

Mar 27, 2022
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The War in the Former Yugoslavia (Bosnian War) and the Dayton Accords, w/ Alex Hastie of "Ohio v. The World" Podcast

Mar 14, 2022
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The Anguish of Calvin Coolidge ( w/ David Priess )

Mar 7, 2022
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Abyssinia: The Italian-Ethiopian War and its Consequences

Mar 1, 2022
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Congressional Stock Trading and The Pan-Electric Scandal

Feb 21, 2022
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I'll Take Presidents and Canadian Prime Ministers For $1000.

Feb 17, 2022
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Ramsay MacDonald / What Happened to the Gold Standard?

Feb 14, 2022
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The "Send a Dime" Chain Letters of 1935 and The Lost Subway System

Feb 7, 2022
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Judge Lincoln, Orval Faubus and Bill Clinton, Millard Fillmore

Jan 30, 2022
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The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and Other Disasters

Jan 27, 2022
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The History Behind a Holiday: Martin Luther King Day

Jan 17, 2022
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Drug Legalization Before it Was Cool: The Story of Kurt Schmoke

Jan 10, 2022
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Disorder at the Capitol in History

Jan 5, 2022
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About Those Hessians: Realities of the Revolution

Dec 24, 2021
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Shooting Behind Trees? Realities of The Revolution

Dec 20, 2021
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What Would Cicero Say? Interview with Professor Rob Goodman of Ryerson University on Speech Issues, Modern and Ancient

Dec 17, 2021
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Harris and the Vice Presidency in a Historical Context

Dec 11, 2021
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The 1890's Part IV: Imperialism Just Happened

Dec 6, 2021
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Near-President Bob Dole?

Dec 5, 2021
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The 1890's Part III: No, Not That Winston Churchill

Nov 29, 2021
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The 1890's Part II: Tin Man

Nov 22, 2021
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The 1890's: Part I : Mauve Decade

Nov 15, 2021
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Inflation Gardens and Other Stories

Nov 4, 2021
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News Stories From 1921 That Matter Today - with Jon Blackwell

Nov 1, 2021
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Elephant in the Room: Former Presidents and Their Parties

Oct 4, 2021
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Biden, Crime Bill, How and Why He Was Elected and More: Interview w/ The Political Darkside Podcast

Sep 27, 2021
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Andrew Carnegie Questions

Sep 14, 2021
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Snack, Dessert, Dinner, Supper: The Paris Peace Accords

Sep 6, 2021
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Mike Duncan on The Marquis de Lafayette and His Two Worlds

Aug 30, 2021
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Saigon Comparisons: The Events of April 29th and 30th 1975 and Today

Aug 19, 2021
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Richard Bey of "The Richard Bey Show" on Cancel Culture, Iraq War, The Alamo and The Truth - 15th Anniversary Episode Part II

Jul 28, 2021
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15th Anniversary Show Part I: Speaking w/ Listeners, Reviewing Clips of Past Episodes - James Monroe and Lyndon Johnson and More

Jul 25, 2021
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Vaccines Then and Now

Jul 15, 2021
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Dennis Kucinich on Public Service, Public Power and His Book - "The Division of Light and Power'

Jul 12, 2021
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The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of the Signers of The Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 2021
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1866 Mechanics Institute Attack

Jun 17, 2021
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Terrible Tuesday 1987 (The Ark of Commerce, Part 6b)

Jun 2, 2021
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On The Lincoln Train: The 13-Day Journey of a President-Elect

Jun 1, 2021
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Black Monday 1987 and The Shock of Risk (Final Ark of Commerce Series, Part 6a)

May 23, 2021
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We've Got Problems. We've Always Had Problems.

May 8, 2021
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Leftovers From the Black Monday and Terrible Tuesday Casts.

May 1, 2021
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The Man Behind the UN Who Never Got Credit - Edward Stettinius, Jr. w/Bill Scher

Apr 20, 2021
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Golden Beauty Boss: Madame Sara Spencer Washington w/ Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks

Apr 5, 2021
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The Young Dick Cheney

Mar 31, 2021
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1921 - One Hundred Years Ago

Mar 24, 2021
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The 25th Amendment, Section Four Explained, w/ Brian C. Kalt

Mar 19, 2021
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This is William Rufus King w/ Thomas Balcerski - The Forgotten VP, His Role in The Compromise of 1850, His Relationship with James Buchanan and More

Mar 18, 2021
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Cholera and Benjamin Harrison

Mar 12, 2021
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Unfriending From Jefferson and Adams, to today

Mar 11, 2021
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Elvis Meets Nixon - The Insider Story

Mar 10, 2021
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George Romney

Feb 18, 2021
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16 Obscure Facts About Presidents w/ Jeremy Anderberg of The Art of Manliness and Readmorebooks.co

Feb 14, 2021
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The Power to Pardon

Jan 17, 2021
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Democracy w/ Dr. Paul Cartledge of Cambridge University: The Life, and Hopefully Not Death, of Democracy (2017)

Jan 9, 2021
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Masks Then and Now, 1960 Election Presidents Leaving and Not Leaving Oval, Also 14 Years of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Dec 31, 2020
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I Don't Want to Trick You: The Lyndon Johnson - Richard Nixon Presidential Transition, and Other Stories

Dec 29, 2020
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Etiquette and Social Media: Where are Our Manners? Social Etiquette from Ben Franklin to Dale Carnegie to Today, w Jessica Weisberg

Dec 18, 2020
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Pirates and America, w/ Rebecca Simon, Author of "Why We Love Pirates"

Dec 17, 2020
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Did Nixon Win the Popular Vote in 1960? And Other Stories

Dec 7, 2020
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The Creation of Children: Child Labor in the U.S. and Child Labor Laws

Dec 2, 2020
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I Am James Buchanan

Nov 26, 2020
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Notes of 1884: Thoughts on That Election, and the Current One

Nov 9, 2020
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Blaine's Faint, Washington's Flu, Defoe's London and SARS: Stories of Health and Sickness and Politics

Oct 7, 2020
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The 1880 Election and The Morey Letter: a Tale of October Surprise, Immigration, Memes and Counter Memes and Nothing to Do with Today's Politics

Sep 17, 2020
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Granting of Certiorari: The Hidden Process Behind the Supreme Court

Aug 12, 2020
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King Corn, Story of Ethanol (from 2013)

Jul 14, 2020
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Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge

Jul 10, 2020
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Operation Eagle Claw and the 1979 Iran Embassy Storming

Jul 2, 2020
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Partisanship, 1850's Style w/ Josh Mensch, co-author of The Lincoln Conspiracy

Jul 1, 2020
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A Powder Keg About to Explode: Newark, NJ 1967

Jun 8, 2020
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The Cabinet, George Washington's Creation, with Lindsay M. Chervinsky

May 26, 2020
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What The Great Depression Felt Like, And Other Things

May 17, 2020
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History's Nine Most Insane Rulers w Scott Rank of "History Unplugged" Podcast

May 12, 2020
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Rules of Political Debate: Godwin's Law is Not a Law

May 1, 2020
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Eyewitness to Kent State Shootings: Paula Stone Tucker

May 1, 2020
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Measure Everything: Ark of Commerce Part 5

Apr 19, 2020
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Make It Stop: When Commerce Stopped (Ark of Commerce Part 4 Replay)

Apr 18, 2020
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Rum, Romanism and Rebellion - The 3 Words That Changed Presidential History

Mar 18, 2020
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The Spanish Flu of 1918 and Its Aftermath - Conversation with Laura Spinney

Mar 2, 2020
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Iowa, Impeachment and the Universe

Feb 2, 2020
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Skokie, Neo-Nazis and Free Speech

Jan 24, 2020
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The Surprising, Perhaps, History of Martin Luther King Day

Jan 20, 2020
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Mister 22 and Mister 24: Grover Cleveland

Jan 1, 2020
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Impeachment - Conversation with David Priess and Bruce Carlson

Dec 2, 2019
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A World Disrupted - Interview w/ Charles Emmerson, Author of "Crucible - The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924"

Dec 2, 2019
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A Deep Dive into The Emancipation Proclamation

Nov 14, 2019
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Butterfield: Nixon’s Watergate Frenemy

Nov 5, 2019
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The Mystery of Impeachment - How it Works, What Happened in 1868 and More

Oct 20, 2019
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Beam Me Up: The James Traficant Story w/ Alex Hastie of The Ohio v. The World Podcast

Oct 20, 2019
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Brown vs. The Board of Education

Sep 10, 2019
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Brexit, Boris and UK and Irish Politics w/ Steven Byrne from What am Politics

Aug 31, 2019
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Holden Caufield and Xerox: The Corporate Personhood Debate (from 2013)

Aug 20, 2019
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How to Rank The Presidents, with Susan Swain and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN

Jul 24, 2019
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The Ark of Commerce Part IV: Make It Stop

May 23, 2019
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Woodrow Wilson Has No Friends: Wilson, His Politics and His Image Today with Patricia O'Toole

Mar 18, 2019
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The Slaughter Could Not Be Ignored -

Mar 15, 2019
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LBJ 's Cell Phone and His Decision to Jump on the Ticket in 1960

Feb 20, 2019
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Nixon in Full

Feb 20, 2019
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Interview with Sidney Blumenthal - Putting Lincoln in a Political Context, Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, The Whigs and More

Feb 12, 2019
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Mexico's Contribution to World War II and Other Stories

Jan 7, 2019
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Investigating the Executive Branch: The Trial of Thomas Jefferson, Governor

Jan 2, 2019
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Economy and Jobs: Debunking "The Good Old Days" Argument with Gregg Easterbrook

Jan 1, 2019
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Searching for Eisenhower: Ike on War, Civil Rights, Big Government and Political Moderation (with William Hitchcock)

Jan 1, 2019
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The Ark of Commerce, Part III: Loco

Dec 29, 2018
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Curtis LeMay, Warrior, Candidate - with Alex Hastie of Ohio v. The World Podcast

Dec 28, 2018
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LBJ and The Creation of Medicare - 50 Years Ago

Dec 28, 2018
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The Ark of Commerce, Part II: Two If By Sea

Dec 28, 2018
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The Ark of Commerce - Part I: Crash Party

Dec 27, 2018
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The Craziest Speaker of The House Election, Indian Removal Petitions and Other Thoughts

Dec 25, 2018
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George H.W. Bush, 03 30 81

Dec 2, 2018
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Presidents After Midterms with Matt K. Lewis

Nov 20, 2018
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David Priess on the Realities of Impeachment and the History of Presidential Removal

Nov 14, 2018
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Posse Comitatus and Billy The Kid

Nov 4, 2018
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The American Mind

Oct 16, 2018
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About That Court-Packing Idea. SCOTUS Discussion Part II w/ Chris Novembrino

Oct 16, 2018
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Midterms: They Don't Always Work Out Badly for Presidents (But Mostly They Do)

Aug 6, 2018
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War: 1983 and How Close We Came to Nuclear War w/ Marc Ambinder

Jul 29, 2018
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RFK Anniversary: Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy and the Missing Element in Today's Politics

Jul 28, 2018
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Tariffs: Smoot - The Man Behind the Tariff

Jul 28, 2018
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GERRYMANDERING: Gerry and His "Mander" (from 2013, with an Update on Gerrymandering Supreme Court case)

Jul 18, 2018
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Russia: Everything You Know About The Russian Revolution is Wrong - Russian Journalist Mikhail Zygar on 1917, History, Putin, Democracy and More

Jul 18, 2018
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Civil War Bonds - The Importance of Commerce to the Civil War

Jul 10, 2018
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Soccer and Repression: 1978 and the World Cup in Argentina

Jul 8, 2018
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Tariffs: Taft Walks Away - The Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909

Jun 10, 2018
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Marc Ambinder on Being a White House Correspondent

Jun 3, 2018
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Infrastructure: The Bad Side and Good Side of Infrastructure - Robert Moses and Other Tales with Greg Young of the Bowery Boys NYC Podcast

May 31, 2018
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US Intelligence Services: The Secret Intelligence of All The President's Men: Interview with David Priess on CIA Briefings, History, Trump, Mueller and More

May 14, 2018
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Rigged Elections: That Time the DNC Rigged a Nomination

Apr 26, 2018
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America and Rome: w/ Mike Duncan

Apr 1, 2018
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Movies and Politics: Writing History With Lightning: The Controversial Mix of Movies and Politics and History

Apr 1, 2018
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Presidential Power: Democracy's Diet? The Two-Term Presidential Limit of the 22nd Amendment

Feb 27, 2018
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U.S.-Mexico Relations w/ Bob Crawford and Ben Sawyer of "The Road to Now " Podcast Live in Mexico

Feb 24, 2018
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Where's Reagan? Reagan in Our Politics Today - The Final of the Dozen Ronald Reagans Series - Episode Twelve

Jan 22, 2018
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Did Reagan Win the Cold War? A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Episode Eleven

Jan 21, 2018
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Year of the Missile: Reagan's First Term Cold War Steps - A Dozen Ronald Reagans, Part 10

Jan 20, 2018
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Shockwave 1981 - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Nine

Jan 11, 2018
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White House on Fire: Iran Contra - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part 8 -REPLAY

Jan 9, 2018
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Reformation: Tax Reform , Immigration, S&Ls - A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Seven

Jan 6, 2018
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Hands Across America:: A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Six

Jan 4, 2018
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1976 Convention: A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Five

Jan 2, 2018
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A Telephone Scandal, and People Giving Their Money to the Treasury

Jan 1, 2018
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Witches' Brew: Central America, Lebanon, Poland - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Four

Dec 31, 2017
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Rubik's Cube: Two Reagan Mysteries Solved - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Three -

Dec 29, 2017
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A Taxing Second Year - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Two

Dec 26, 2017
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Rawhide is OK - First of Our Series on a 'Dozen Ronald Reagans'

Dec 23, 2017
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The Making of A Dozen Ronald Reagans

Dec 20, 2017
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Briefing Ronald Reagan

Dec 18, 2017
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Rutherford B Hayes Presidency

Oct 24, 2017
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President by Accident: Truman, Atomic Warfare, Russians and Trump w/ A.J. Baime

Oct 17, 2017
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How JFK's Death was Felt in The Soviet Union

Oct 2, 2017
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Patrick Henry, Underrated Founder - Interview with Jon Kukla

Sep 5, 2017
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The Split on The Left of Politics and Why it Matters, w/ Chris Novembrino

Aug 22, 2017
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Elvis Presley and America

Aug 15, 2017
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The Sculptor, The Activist and The Senator - More Characters from Andrew Johnson's 1868 Impeachment

Aug 1, 2017
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Written Out of History? Robert Yates, Luther Martin, Mercy Otis Warren

Aug 1, 2017
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Charleston 1860 and Secession: Interview with Paul Starobin

Jul 22, 2017
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John Jay's Horse , George Washington's Mill and the Emoluments Clause

Jul 8, 2017
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Interview with Kevin Lacz, Decorated Navy SEAL and Star of "American Sniper"

Jun 23, 2017
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Public Sector vs. Blue Collar Unions and Other Questiions

May 29, 2017
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Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court

Apr 13, 2017
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The President’s Book of Secrets: Interview with David Priess

Apr 2, 2017
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Interview w/ John Avlon, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast, Author of Washington’s Farewell

Feb 13, 2017
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How Mandates Were Invented

Jan 30, 2017
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The Census - The Original Big Data

Jan 26, 2017
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The (Very Few) Rejected Cabinet Choices

Jan 11, 2017
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Fib That American President Creates Jobs

Dec 1, 2016
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The 2016 Election, Taken with a Swig of History

Nov 10, 2016
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Concession

Nov 7, 2016
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The Real Story of the 1948 Election

Nov 1, 2016
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The Incredibly Shrinking Fourth

Sep 5, 2016
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Bob Seeger and the Steelworker - Manufacturing vs. Service in Political Debates

Aug 2, 2016
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Rottenborough Delegates: A Quirk in Party Nominations From Lincoln to Trump

Jul 7, 2016
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1840 -Clowns With Pink Noses and Lofty Tumbling

Jul 7, 2016
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Schedule of Conventions: Why is the GOP Convention First, Democrats Second, Brexit Other Topics.

Jun 16, 2016
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The "Manhattan Project" in the Clinton 1992 Campaign

May 9, 2016
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Madison Can't Get a Seat at the Starbucks, and How to Read a Constitution

Mar 9, 2016
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The Fib That Your Side is Going to Win

Mar 9, 2016
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Scots Irish in American History and Politics

Jan 21, 2016
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Huey Long and Trump, Vetoes, and Other Stories

Jan 19, 2016
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The Craziest Speaker Election Ever and Other Ephemra

Dec 20, 2015
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Why Did the Founders, Signers, Framers Wear Wigs And Other Stories... (FROM THEY SIGNED PODCAST)

Dec 15, 2015
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LIncoln Goes to China

Nov 25, 2015
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How Wilson Carried Ohio in 1916, and Other Listener Questions

Nov 19, 2015
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Mad Man Finale, 1980 Election and Many Other Side Dishes

May 20, 2015
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The Return and Return of Nativism

Jan 6, 2015
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Social Security Had Its Glitches Too

Dec 25, 2014
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They Shall from Time to Time?: History of The Opposition Answer to President's SOTU

Sep 3, 2014
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The Fitzsimmons Challenge: How a 1790's Race Got Nasty and Maybe Started a Trend

Aug 15, 2014
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Logan Act

Jul 16, 2014
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King's Rook: When the President's Party Has the Senate, Not the House

Feb 2, 2014
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Did the Founders Care if We Starve?

Jun 3, 2012
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Wendell Willkie and a Lighting Nomination

Mar 12, 2012
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The Whole 'Do Nothing Congress' Gambit

Jan 1, 2012
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The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Public Sector Unions

Jun 27, 2011
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Does the Challenger Even Matter?

Feb 20, 2011
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The Forgotten Other Great Depression (1893)

Oct 11, 2010
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Heller Decision on Guns and the 2A

Sep 13, 2010
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Social Security, Civil War Pensions

Mar 16, 2010
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How the Battle for California Statehood Defined America

Mar 1, 2010
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How Primary Became a Verb

Jan 3, 2010
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The Aughts the Ohs, Burr, Fox, Cuba, Taxes

Jan 1, 2010
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Famous Brokered Conventions

Jan 1, 2010
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What George W. Bush Says for Himself - A Brief Read of Decision Points

Oct 10, 2009
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History of the Primaries

Sep 8, 2009
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The Terrible Twos?

Aug 8, 2009
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Did Stimulus Work? (2009)

Jun 1, 2009
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An Historic Election, for Many Reasons, Episode from 2008

Dec 2, 2008
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Election of 2008 Review, with an eye to history

Dec 1, 2008
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Flotsam and Jetsom of the 2008 Election

Nov 12, 2008
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Why Cant We Lean on a Shovel?

Nov 11, 2008
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Financial Panics in America

Nov 8, 2008
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Guns and 2nd Amendment (2008)

Sep 9, 2008
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Monroe's First Year as President - 1817

Aug 20, 2008
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Drifting into Military Involvement in Lebanon 1983 and Mexico 1913

Aug 14, 2008
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All About Coattails -Does the President Wear a Coat, or a Windbreaker?

Aug 2, 2008
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Ferraro

Aug 1, 2008
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Staying in Iraq, Staying in Vietnam

Jun 19, 2008
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Missouri - The Show Me Swing State

Jun 12, 2008
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History Picks the President 2008

May 14, 2008
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Charles II is Messing With Us, And Other Stories

May 12, 2008
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President of the Senate

Apr 10, 2008
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Fixing the Primaries

Jan 9, 2008
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British Prime Ministers and US Presidents

Dec 1, 2007
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Gerald Ford and His Times

Oct 11, 2007
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Three-Way Elections

Aug 8, 2007
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The Constitutional Conventioneers

May 19, 2007
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History of Objectivity in the Media

Apr 10, 2007
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The Veto Override

Mar 4, 2007
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American Zig Zag on Immigration Policy

Feb 3, 2007
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The History of the Federal Reserve

Jan 20, 2007
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The Veto and its History

Jan 12, 2007
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Forty Years of One Party In Congress

Jan 1, 2007
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All About Polls

Nov 1, 2006
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Nevada and its Politics

Sep 21, 2006
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History of Fannie Mae

Sep 15, 2006
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Objectivity and The Media (2006)

Sep 6, 2006
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Filibuster: A Brief History

Sep 1, 2006
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How Do You End A War?

Aug 17, 2006
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A History of Speakers of The House

Aug 1, 2006
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Presidents and the Media - Coddling, Manipulating from Lincoln to Bush

Jul 2, 2006
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Has Television Really Changed Politics? An Examination (from 2006)

Jul 1, 2006