Field Trip: Walking The National Mall Through Service, Sacrifice, And Civic Duty
A wall of names can change how you see yourself—and your country. Walking the National Mall with our guide Jeremy Goldstein, we explore how the World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam Veter...
6 Helmi 18min
How The New Deal Remade Parties And The Presidency
A national emergency remade American politics—and we follow the fault lines from the Great Depression to the digital age. With Dr. Sidney Milkis, we unpack how Franklin Roosevelt turned crisis into a ...
5 Helmi 20min
From Patronage To Primaries: How The Progressive Era Remade U.S. Politics
We track how the Progressive Era broke the grip of local party machines, elevated public opinion, and strengthened the presidency, reshaping both major parties. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson anchor the ...
4 Helmi 14min
Classroom Edition: Alexis de Toqueville
A French magistrate walked into an American prison and came out with a blueprint for democratic life. We follow Alexis de Tocqueville’s unlikely journey—from an official study of penitentiaries to a l...
3 Helmi 8min
Tocqueville’s Take On Individualism
What if the biggest threat to freedom isn’t a tyrant but our quiet decision to sit out civic life? We dive into Alexis de Tocqueville’s striking idea of “individualism” as a democratic habit of withdr...
2 Helmi 27min
Field Trip: Civil Rights On The Mall
A public park can teach a nation. We head to the National Mall with Jeremy Goldstein from the Trust for the National Mall to trace a civil rights tour that links the MLK Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial...
30 Tammi 11min
Tocqueville On Religion’s Role In Democracy
Freedom doesn’t last on parchment alone. We sit down with Dr. Daniel Mahoney to trace why Tocqueville believed that religion—understood broadly and charitably—quietly underwrites the habits that make ...
29 Tammi 24min
How Tocqueville Read the Constitution and Judged Andrew Jackson
A French traveler saw something in America that Americans often miss: a Constitution that works precisely because it limits what anyone can do. We dive into Tocqueville’s sharp reading of federal desi...
28 Tammi 19min
