Are you watching Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial? Are you trying to make sense of it all? We want to help. In this episode we talk with CNN presidential historian and Southern Methodist University professor Jeffrey Engel on the history of impeachment. Engel sheds light on the debates over impeachment in the Constitutional Convention, the historic meaning of "bribery" and "high crimes and misdemeanors," and the inevitable political and partisan nature of American impeachments.
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Episode 84: "How 'Biblical Womanhood' Became Gospel Truth'"
Episode 83: Celebrity in the Early American Republic
Episode 82: The Fastest Game in the World
Episode 81: God's Law and Order
Episode 80: How Alternative Media Broke Our Democracy
Episode 79: John Foster Dulles and the Cold War Protestant Left
Episode 78: "How a 1630 Sermon Shaped American Exceptionalism"
Episode 77: The Art of Living
Episode 76: Howard Thurman: Theologian, Mystic, Activist
Episode 75: The Jefferson Bible
Episode 74: An Independent Woman in Revolutionary America
Episode 73: Cowboy Evangelicalism
Episode 72: Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump, and the Upending of SHEAR
Episode 71: Writing History for Young Readers
Episode 70: Systemic Racism
Episode 69: Be Like Mike?
Episode 68: The History of the Presidential Cabinet
Episode 67: Exploring the History of Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures
Episode 66: The Boston Massacre
Episode 65: "What Would Lasch Say?"
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