23.A.) How Benjamin Harrison won his way to defeat, an interview with Charles Calhoun

23.A.) How Benjamin Harrison won his way to defeat, an interview with Charles Calhoun

Is it possible to win your way to defeat? Benjamin Harrison and the 51st Congress might say so. After passing almost all the legislation they had campaigned on in 1889, American voters dealt them crippling defeats in 1891 and 1893. What went wrong? Join me as I interview Charles Calhoun, a retired distinguished professor of History at East Carolina University, a past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the author of Benjamin Harrison, on how Ben...

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20.B) Death by Lightning, an interview on the assassination of James Garfield with Candice Millard

20.B) Death by Lightning, an interview on the assassination of James Garfield with Candice Millard

Historian Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic, discusses what it's like to have your book turned into a major Netflix Miniseries, Death by Lightning, and what first attracted her to the...

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"While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it," - Victoria Woodhull, April 2, 1870, in a newspaper column announcing her candidacy for presidency of the United States. You may know th...

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Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide. Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the Greek city states were a bunch of backwaters. An...

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Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide. Athens wasn't always a democracy, but when a tyrant overplayed his hand and a revolutionary proposed something better, it launched a new form ...

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45.) Donald Trump part 1 2017-2021

45.) Donald Trump part 1 2017-2021

"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now." - Donald Trump, inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 2017. The American presidency had long fascinated Donald Trump. Ever since attending the 198...

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8.A) Martin Van Buren, America's first politician, an interview with James Bradley

8.A) Martin Van Buren, America's first politician, an interview with James Bradley

Martin Van Buren is known as the "little magician." If he was a magician, he cast a powerful spell. The two party system he championed and helped establish has ruled the United States for two centurie...

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44.A) Obama's 08' Iowa campaign, an interview with Chelsea Waliser

What's it like to be on the inside of a dark horse presidential campaign? Chelsea Waliser knows. Waliser was an Obama campaign regional field director during the lead up to first-in-the-nation 2008 I...

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