Our guest in this episode is historian Robert Tracy McKenzie, author of We the Fallen the People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy. In the spirit of the 20th-century theologian and ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr, McKenzie places the Christian doctrine of original sin at the center of early American political history. He believes that we must come to grips with the fact that America has not always been great or even good. His work forces us to rethink just about everything we thought we knew about democratic life in the United States.
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Episode 26: The Way of Improvement Returns to the Classroom
Episode 25: Thinking Historically About Charlottesville
Episode 24: The Way of Improvement Leads to Ben Franklin’s World
Episode 23: Giving in America
Episode 22: The History of American Healthcare
Episode 21: Why We Need More Historians in the Silicon Valley
Episode 20: La Vida Baseball
Episode 19: American Prophets
Episode 18: The Way of Improvement Leads Abroad?
Episode 17: The Way of Improvement Leads to Mount Vernon
Episode 16: Abolitionism
Episode 15: The Civil War
Episode 14: 107 Years in the Making
Episode 13: Finally, it’s Election Day
Episode 12: How to be a Historian in Public
Episode 11: Biography: an Appraisal
Episode 10: On Historical Reenacting
Episode 9: Baby, We Were Born to Run (Home)
Episode 8: All Things Jefferson
Episode 7: The Way of Improvement Leads to the Ballpark
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