For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
Making up the earliest class of United States presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe were all born and raised within the same sixty-mile circle east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, making up a “Virginia Dynasty” that came to shape America during the formative decades following the revolution. Author Lynne Cheney examines the friendships and rivalries within this “Virginia Dynasty,” and the contradiction between their espoused ideals of American liberty and prosperity and their status as slaveholders.
Recorded on December 3, 2020
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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History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
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