Lyndon B. Johnson And The Art Of Power
Power rarely looks like a speech. Sometimes it looks like a phone call, a vote count, and a president who knows exactly how the Senate works. We’re joined by LBJ Foundation Chairman and CEO Mark Updgr...
21 Touko 19min
Presidential Pets And Public Power
A dog on the White House lawn can do what a policy speech can’t: make power feel personal. We’re taking a sharp, surprisingly civic look at presidential pets and why these “small” stories shape how Am...
20 Touko 9min
Challenger And The Words That Followed
I can still picture the classroom TV, the countdown, and the way excitement turned into silence 73 seconds after liftoff. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster wasn’t just a news event for a lot of Am...
19 Touko 6min
MLK's I Have A Dream Speech
The I Have a Dream speech is one of the most recognizable moments in American history, but the version most of us carry around is often the shortest and safest one. We sit down with returning guest Dr...
18 Touko 28min
Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union
A campaign firestorm pushed Barack Obama to a crossroads in 2008: offer a quick political defense or step into the country’s oldest argument about who “We the People” really are. We choose the second ...
15 Touko 9min
Bill Clinton’s Oklahoma City Memorial Address
A truck bomb in Oklahoma City killed 168 people, including 19 children, and left the country grasping for words that wouldn’t make the wound worse. Four days later, President Bill Clinton delivered a ...
14 Touko 10min
Nixon’s Resignation Address
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13 Touko 10min
From Timeline To Threads: How Civics Really Works
A timeline can tell you what happened. It can’t always tell you what it meant, or why the meaning keeps changing. We’ve spent months building a foundation in civics: the Declaration of Independence a...
12 Touko 8min
