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From Yorktown to the Civil War, Pearl Harbor to 9/11, Abridged Presidential Histories explores the successes, setbacks, and scandals that define each president’s legacy, and then asks what lessons we can learn from them.
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2025 Friendsgiving History Podcast Spectacular
It's the week of Thanksgiving, which means its time for the fourth annual Friendsgiving Podcast Spectacular. Four compelling podcast hosts sit down for a round table where each host gets to ask 1…
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 improbable Victoria Woodhull, an interview with Eden Collinsworth
"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…
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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.…
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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…
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…
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…
44.) Barack Obama 2009-2017
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama, on the campaign trail, Feb. 5,…
43.A) An Afghan Story, an interview with Sahba Azami
Sahba Azami was born an Afghan refugee.Today, she's an Afghan refugee once more.But, for nearly 20 years, she was not a refugee. She was simply an Afghan. And the future was bright.Brought back to…
45.A) The rhetoric of Donald Trump, an interview with Jennifer Mercieca
Donald Trump does not talk like a politician. But where some hear truth telling, and others hear something unhinged, professor Jennifer Mercieca hears a consistent rhetorical strategy designed to…
43.) George W Bush 2001-2009
"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." - George W Bush, World Trade Center Site, September 14, 2001George W. Bush…
42.A) Bill Clinton's Economic Legacy, an interview with Nelson Lichtenstein
"It's the economy, stupid" - Clinton advisor James Carville, 1992.Bill Clinton left office with a 66% approval rating. This was in large part because 81% of Americans approved his handling of the…
42.) Bill Clinton
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.’” — Bill Clinton's inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1993.Bill Clinton has the highest end-of-term approval rating…
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For the third consecutive year, four podcasters got together to record their annual Friendsgiving History Podcast Spectacular. Tune in as I'm joined by three fellow history podcasters and friends for…
41.A) George Bush & the end of the Cold War, an interview with Jeff Engel
George H.W. Bush presided over 4 of the most consequential years in world history. Before he entered office, a Cold War divided East and West: Democratic Capitalism vs Dictatorial Communism. After he…
41.) George H.W. Bush
“The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again. And I’ll say to them: ‘Read my lips, no new taxes.’” — George Bush's GOP…
40.A) Reaganomics and the anti-tax movement, an interview with Michael Graetz
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2.A) John Adams and the modern presidency, an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky
Pandemics, political violence, partisans recognizable by the color of their hat - it may sound novel, but it's been with us practically since the beginning of the republic. Historian Lindsay…
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[Abridged] Presidential Histories has published 133 episodes since March 2020, covering topics in Government, History.
[Abridged] Presidential Histories is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 49m.
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