The Case for America
Two hundred fifty years ago, fifty-six men risked the rope to sign their names to an idea. Today, we ask if that idea still holds.On the actual anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we close...
4 Jul 10min
Brothers, Not Saints: The Founders' Fight to Hold It Together
They argued. They schemed. One of them shot another one dead.The night before America's 250th birthday, we look past the marble statues to the actual men underneath — proud, brilliant, deeply flawed, ...
3 Jul 9min
The Real Midnight Ride
He never finished the ride. And it didn't matter.Everyone knows the poem — the lone rider, the lantern, the gallop through the night. The truth is messier, braver, and a lot more moving. On our Road t...
28 Jun 14min
Bloody Footprints: How Valley Forge Saved a Revolution
The Declaration was signed in July. This is what almost killed it in December.As we count down to America's 250th anniversary, we open the road to independence not with fireworks, but with frostbite. ...
22 Jun 10min
The General's Dog: A Special Episode
Special episode alert! My 8-year-old son Steven is taking over Bahr's History Hits — and he's brought his favorite book with him. George Washington and the General's Dog tells the remarkable true stor...
7 Jun 6min
Beyond the Oval Office
Only a handful of people have ever held the most powerful job in the world—and that shared experience bonds them in ways nothing else can. Today we're pulling back the curtain on the Presidents Club: ...
6 Jun 11min
The Preacher & the Presidents
He preached the gospel to an estimated 215 million people in person. He knelt in prayer with presidents in the Oval Office. He took midnight phone calls from Lyndon Johnson, who was drowning in Vietna...
21 Mai 17min
