For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated, and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. Celebrated historian and writer Jon Meacham joins David M. Rubenstein in a conversation on the power of Lincoln’s story to illustrate the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
Recorded on December 9, 2022
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783
Abraham Lincoln in His Times
How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956
A Conversation with Jeffrey Rosen: The Life and Legacy of Justice Ginsburg
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
A Conversation with Brenda Child
The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream
Cover Story: Katharine Graham, CEO
A Conversation with John M. Barry: The Great Influenza
The World: A Brief Introduction
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the Blitz
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
A Conversation with Akhil Reed Amar: The Electoral College
Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
A Conversation with Michael Beschloss
A Conversation with Bernard L. Schwartz
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