For the Ages: A History Podcast
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Overcoming formidable obstacles, including an assassination attempt, Abraham Lincoln’s presidency was fraught with danger before it even officially began. Ted Widmer provides a riveting account of Lincoln’s pivotal 13-day train ride to Washington for his inauguration, and how this fateful trip played a vital role in shaping him for his role as president of a rapidly fracturing nation.
Recorded on February 5, 2021
JFK and the Promise of Democracy
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part Two
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part One
Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
Mourning the Presidents
The Age of Lincoln
Coolidge
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part Two
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One
John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years
John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
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