For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
Michael Beschloss, one of the most prominent presidential historians in the country, joins David M. Rubenstein for an intimate conversation on his life, career, and his 2018 book, Presidents of War, which is the culmination of 10 years of research. The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war, however throughout history presidents have waged conflicts across the globe–both with and without formal Congressional approval. In this conversation, Beschloss traces presidential leadership and executive power in times of conflict from the founding to the 21st century, including the actions Lincoln took during the Civil War and Lyndon B. Johnson’s approach to the Vietnam War.
Recorded on April 17, 2019.
American Republics, 1783–1850: Slavery, Native Americans, and American Identity
American Republics, 1783–1850: Democracy and Empire
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Flora MacDonald: Journey to the New World and the Revolutionary War
Flora Macdonald: The Escape of “Bonnie” Prince Charlie
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945
Our Composite Nation: The Reconstruction of American Democracy in the Age of the Civil War
American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
Silent Spring Revolution: American Presidents and the Great Environmental Awakening
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Cuba: An American History
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis: Part II
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis: Part I
Ways and Means: How the Confederacy Financed the Civil War
Ways and Means: How the Union Financed the Civil War
American Inheritance: Slavery and the New Republic
American Inheritance: Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
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