George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

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Thomas Jefferson

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The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson

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Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America

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James Monroe: A Republican Champion

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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789

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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

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Thomas Jefferson An Autobiography: The Lost Manuscript

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William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913

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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations

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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

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The Whig Party: The History and Legacy of the Influential Political Party in 19th Century America

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The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy

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George Washington on Leadership

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His Excellency: George Washington

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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

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Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897

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To America

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Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953

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Benjamin Franklin

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James Madison

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Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation

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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign

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Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

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Samuel Adams: A Life

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Jackson

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Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year

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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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1776

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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John Adams

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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Summary: Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’ Neill & Dan Piepenbring: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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The Untold History of the United States

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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

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Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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128 Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History: Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about freedom to American independence from Great Britain and the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. But...

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William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death: Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, along with Barbara Bair and Dr. Philip Mackowiak, deconstruct Harrison's transformative presidential campaign and debunk the myth of what killed him after only 32 days in office.

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Flags of Our Fathers: One of the most iconic photographs of all time is the famous Joe Rosenthal photo of the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi in the southwest corner of Iwo Jima. In Flags of Our Fathers, director Clint Eastwood weaves together the story of...

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Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents: Should we teach the presidency of Millard Fillmore? What do we lose if we don't? Historians Jean Baker and James McPherson, along with Washington Post education reporter T. Rees Shapiro, tackle these questions in our 13th episode.

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Best of - David McCullough, Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald: Time Travelers: It is the rare writer who can make history so compelling, so alive, that people will flock to read it. David McCullough, who died last Sunday, was one of those writers. He was the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books: one about President Harry Truman and one about President John Adams. In honor of Mr. McCullough, we are reposting this episode from 2020 which featured him and two other great presidential historians: Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald. They talk here about their subjects as if they had gone back in time and returned, breathless, to share the stories they'd heard. And each writer explains how he fell under the spell of history and made it his life's work.

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Gallipoli: James and Sean discuss the 1981 Australian film Gallipoli, which tells the story of a group of Australian young men who are introduced to the horrors of war at the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli.

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Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system: Martin Van Buren did much to create the political party establishments we have today. Experts Barbara Bair and Mark Cheathem, along with Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza, examine his mark on modern politics.

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Stephen Walt | America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy: In Episode 93 of , Demetri Kofinas speaks with Harvard University's Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt, about the arch of American foreign policy and the decline of U.S. primacy.  The conversation begins by addressing the major...

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J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man (w/ Beverly Gage): Matt and Sam talk to historian Beverly Gage about her new biography of J. Edgar Hoover.

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Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction: In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of the Civil War. Even before the war's end, various constituencies in the North attempted to control the shape of the post-war Reconstruction of the South. In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered his lenient "Ten Percent Plan." Six months later, Congressional Republicans concerned by Lincoln's charity rallied behind the more radical provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill. Despite their struggle for control over Reconstruction, Congressional Radicals and President Lincoln managed to work together on two vital pieces of Reconstruction legislation in the first months of 1865--the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States, and the Freedmen's Bureau bill. Transcript Lecture Page

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Mike Duncan on The Marquis de Lafayette and His Two Worlds: With podcast host of Revolutions and History of Rome Mike Duncan, we talk about the Marquis de Lafayette. He left an aristocratic life in France to fight in the American Revolution, and did so with bravery and zeal. He remains the central figure of American-French cooperation. Mike talks about Lafayette's role not just in American history but in French history. He also talks about his book, Hero of Two Worlds. We also chat about Napoleon and Lafayette, French generals and other stories. Music by Kevin McLeod and Chris Novembrino.

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273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan: Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, returns to The Realignment near the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul to discuss how the war reshaped American society, the pivot to Great Power competition, and his service during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a Marine/CIA officer.

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129 John Bell, The Road to Concord, 1775: How did the colonists of Massachusetts go from public protests meant to shame government officials and destroy offending property, to armed conflict with British Regulars in Lexington and Concord? John Bell, the prolific blogger behind Boston1775.net...

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Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor: Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congressional Republicans radically altered the direction of Reconstruction. The Act invalidated the reconstituted Southern legislatures, establishing five military districts in the South and insisting upon black suffrage as a condition to readmission. The eventful year 1868 saw the impeachment of one president (Andrew Johnson) and the election of another (Ulysses S. Grant). Meanwhile, southern African Americans struggle to reap the promises of freedom in the face of economic disempowerment and a committed campaign of white supremacist violence. Transcript Lecture Page

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I Am James Buchanan: He's the President that is on the bottom of most lists.  But why?  And is it fair?  What did he think about his place in history?  We talk about POTUS 15 and look at the events of the run-up to the American Civil War, and we hear...

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Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad: This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss-of-will thesis, which suggests that it was a lack of conviction on the home front that assured confederate defeat, before offering another of other popular explanations for northern victory: industrial capacity, political leadership, military leadership, international diplomacy, a pre-existing political culture, and emancipation. Blight warns, however, that we cannot forget the battlefield, and, to this end, concludes his lecture with a discussion of the decisive Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July of 1863. Transcript Lecture Page

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Hamilton v. Jefferson: The Rivalry That Shaped America

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The Storm Before The Storm: Chapter 1- The Beasts of Italy: Audio excerpt from The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan. Forthcoming Oct. 24, 2017. Pre-order a copy today!  Amazon Powells Barnes & Noble Indibound Books-a-Million Or visit us at:...

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The Cold War - An Ideological War | 1

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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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Four Paperclippers

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The Cold War - Hearts and Minds | 2

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Max Boot: The Road Not Taken: Author Max Boot returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to talk about his book "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam"

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Stephen C. Taysom, "Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith" (U of Utah Press, 2023): An interview with Stephen C. Taysom

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Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023): An interview with Dennis C. Rasmussen

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Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023): An interview with Dennis C. Rasmussen

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189: The Book of Mormon as a 19th Century Political Commentary: Christopher C. Smith: Chris Smith is not LDS but has been fascinated with the tradition since he dated the local Mormon bishop's daughter in high school.  His research as a religious historian has lead him to the conclusion that Joseph Smith sought to...

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Spencer W. McBride, "Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Spencer W. McBride

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Spencer W. McBride, "Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Spencer W. McBride

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#1301 Farewell Address: "George Washington ... was as close to a perfect human being as we believed existed on Earth." — Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson This week, we speak with President Jefferson about George Washington's farewell address which was first...