26.C.) Teddy Roosevelt, the press, and the bully pulpit; an interview with Harold Holzer
When you hear the name Theodore Roosevelt, a face, personality, and image all pop into mind - Just the way Roosevelt wanted. Presidents have always dealt with and nurtured the press, but Teddy was a q...
4 Apr 202242min
26.B.) How NY made TR, an interview with Ted Kohn
Theodore Roosevelt is one of the biggest personalities to ever inhabit the presidency, so of course he was born in New York City. Roosevelt was heir to one of the city's oldest families and a civil s...
21 Mar 202248min
26.A.) The progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt, an interview with Alycia of Civics and Coffee Pod
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most unlikely champions of progressive reform. Yet there he is, ushering in the American progressive era, promising a "square de...
7 Mar 202232min
26.) Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
In 1898, Theodore Roosevelt was a pencil-pushing desk jockey with no clear political future. Six months later, he was the war-hero governor-elect of New York and well on his way to the presidential ti...
21 Feb 202248min
25.B.) William McKinley's American Empire, an interview with Robert Merry
How did a country founded by anti-imperial revolutionaries come to own an empire of its own? The answer starts with William McKinley, whose administration exploded onto the international stage by carr...
7 Feb 202241min
25.A.) How William McKinley revolutionized politics, an interview with Christopher McKnight Nichols
When William McKinley ran for president in 1896, he out-raised his opponent 7-to-1, printed more campaign literature than all previous GOP presidential candidates combined, and organized what is often...
17 Jan 202256min
25.) William McKinley 1897-1901
Once upon a time, the United States stuck to its shores and big business largely stayed out of politics. Then came William McKinley. William McKinley took the United States international in a big wa...
3 Jan 202253min
24.B.) The lies and secrets of Grover Cleveland, an interview with Matthew Algeo
What was Grover Cleveland hiding in 1893? When the famously honest president was diagnosed with mouth cancer, he decided to keep it from the public at all costs - even if that meant hatching a hair-br...
27 Des 202142min
