The Senate Filibuster Explained
The filibuster gets treated like an ancient feature of the U.S. Senate, but the version that drives today’s gridlock is surprisingly modern. We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienberg to unpack how a procedu...
15 Jun 17min
Mary Todd Lincoln Unmasked
Mary Todd Lincoln gets talked about like a stereotype: the spender, the problem, the punchline. That story falls apart the moment you place her where she actually lived, in a White House worn down by ...
12 Jun 30min
How Lorraine Waxman Pearce Turned The White House Into A Museum
The White House looks permanent on TV, but its history has to be protected one object at a time. We’re joined by Leslie Calderone, Director of the White House History Digital Archives at the White Hou...
11 Jun 19min
How The U.S. Capitol Historical Society Keeps Democracy Real
The U.S. Capitol is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world, but many Americans don’t realize there’s an organization dedicated to preserving its story and turning that history into practi...
10 Jun 23min
Elizabeth Willing Powel
A woman in Philadelphia tells George Washington, plainly, that the country needs him to serve again and she does not write for personal gain. That single moment opens a much bigger story about how inf...
9 Jun 23min
Social Media And Modern Elections
A single TikTok can redefine a candidate faster than a week of traditional ads, and that reality is changing American elections in real time. We sit down with educator Spencer Burrows to trace how cam...
8 Jun 24min
D-Day: What Does Courage Look Like When History Is Watching
D-Day gets reduced to a date and a diagram, but the truth is messier, riskier, and far more human. We sit down with historian Dr. Michael Butler to talk about June 6, 1944 not just as the Normandy inv...
5 Jun 27min
The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” sounds like a secret back hallway of law and that’s exactly why it triggers so much public suspicion. We sit down with Spencer Burrows, an 11th grade dean, AP US Go...
4 Jun 26min
