For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
The US Constitution did not create or provide for the presidential cabinet. When George Washington called for the first convening of his department secretaries two and a half years into his presidency, he drew on his military experience to seek counsel on the wide array of challenges facing the new nation. Presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky dissects the reasons behind the cabinet’s creation, and the far-reaching consequences that resulted, from the development of the party system to the balance of powers.
Recorded on August 7, 2023
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
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson
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History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
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