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Presidents v. World, with Jonathan Stokes
May 13, 2025April 2025 will be remembered as the month when President Donald Trump declared war against the entire world -- a trade war to be exact. Whatever one thinks about his decision, it was a bold move that...
Julia Sand and Chester Arthur: How A Random American Woman Influenced A President, with Destry Edwards
May 06, 2025Few presidents entered office more distrusted than America's 21st chief executive, Chester A. Arthur. But one American, Julia Sand, believed that he could rise to the occasion. What ensued was one of ...
Why the 2024 Presidential Election Was the Wildest Election of Our Lifetimes, with Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
Apr 29, 2025A president in cognitive decline. A beleaguered Vice President. A party in shambles. An ex-president on the verge of the greatest political comeback in American history. And a lot of cat and dog memes...
America's Fallen Savior Part 2 | Herbert Hoover Troubleshoots America
Apr 15, 2025Herbert Hoover emerged from World War I with a reputation as the greatest living humanitarian. He would spend the 1920s applying his brilliance and organizational abilities to transforming the America...
Clash of the Titans: American Presidents vs America's CEOs, with Tevi Troy
Mar 18, 2025Few people are more powerful than the president of the United States and the CEOs of America's biggest companies. In this episode, presidential historian Tevi Troy explains what happens when they go h...
The JFK Assassination That You've Never Heard Of, with Brad Meltzer
Feb 25, 2025Everyone who loves history knows that John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Few, however, know that he was almost assassinated three years earlier. In this episode, bestselling histor...
America's Fallen Savior Part 1 | The Rise of Herbert Hoover
Jan 14, 2025His name is synonymous with failure and depression, and yet Herbert Hoover was one of the most brilliant and accomplished Americans of all time. In this episode, we cover Hoover's unlikely rise from o...
How America's Greatest Presidents Met Their Moment, with William Haldeman
Jan 07, 2025The presidency is perhaps the greatest test of leadership in the world. In this episode, William Haldeman discusses what we can learn about leadership from America's most iconic presidents. Meeting ...
Two Presidents At War: Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis, with Nigel Hamilton
Dec 17, 2024The Civil War has often been portrayed as a conflict between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Nigel Hamilton offers a new perspective: Lincoln vs. Davis. In this episode, Nigel explains this epic c...
Why Woodrow Wilson hated women's suffrage, with Christopher Cox
Dec 10, 2024Woodrow Wilson might have been a progressive, but he was not happy about the progress women made in securing the right to vote. In this episode, former congressman and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox exp...