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Biden: US Presidents, Reelection & the Second Term Curse
Jul 24, 2024President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, after announcing he was ending his reelection bid a few days ago. Dropping out so close to the election is historic...
Secrets of the White House
Jul 22, 2024How did a party in the White House end in mayhem? When did the West Wing become a hive of government? And how has the private life of the President been shielded from the public, despite them living a...
US Presidents Who Escaped Assassination
Jul 19, 2024Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and now Trump. All have been targets of assassination attempts while in or running for office. Listen to this bonus episode from our sister podcast, Dan Snow's Hist...
Sovereignty, the Constitution and 100 years of Citizenship: Native Rights
Jul 18, 2024This podcast contains adult language. What was the ‘Indian Citizenship Act’ of 1924? Why was it necessary? How did it happen? And why did it happen in 1924? Shannon O’Loughlin from the Association of ...
The Rise of Presidential Power
Jul 15, 2024Right from independence, a question has hovered over the government of the United States. How much power should the President have? Not too much, lest they become a monarch. But not too little, they a...
President Grover Cleveland: Panic in the Second Term
Jul 11, 2024What caused the economic panic of 1893? In this episode we are delving into the event that made Grover Cleveland's second term so different from his first. Don is joined once again by Professor Mark Z...
Zionism in Texas
Jul 08, 2024What do you know about Galveston, Texas? Perhaps you've heard about the disastrous hurricane of 1900, perhaps not. This was also likely the case for the thousands of European Jews who migrated to the ...
What is Populism? From the Farmers' Alliance to Trump
Jul 04, 2024In the long unanswered question of whether the established elite truly support the concerns of ordinary people, a supposed hero arises: Populism. But what is Populism? Where did it come from? And is t...
What Caused the American Revolution?
Jul 01, 2024What took the US from the Boston Tea Party to Lexington and Concord? Where was the turning point for the creation of the republic? Mary Beth Norton joins Don in this episode to take us through the cau...
President Benjamin Harrison: The President with a Petting Zoo
Jun 27, 2024Why is the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, remembered as a 'Human Iceberg'? Why did it seem as though he was predestined for the Presidency? And what was it like to have a term...