For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
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
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
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
A Conversation with Michael Beschloss
A Conversation with Bernard L. Schwartz
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History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
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