From Yorktown to the Civil War, Pearl Harbor to 9/11, Abridged Presidential Histories explores the successes, setbacks, and scandals that define each president’s legacy, and then asks what lessons we can learn from them.
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2025 Friendsgiving History Podcast Spectacular (01:03:12)
It's the week of Thanksgiving, which means its time for the fourth annual Friendsgiving Podcast Spectacular. Four compelling podcast hosts sit down for a round table where each host gets to ask 1 ques...
20.B) Death by Lightning, an interview on the assassination of James Garfield with Candice Millard (00:34:52)
Historian Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic, discusses what it's like to have your book turned into a major Netflix Miniseries, Death by Lightning, and what first attracted her to the...
The improbable Victoria Woodhull, an interview with Eden Collinsworth (00:55:02)
"While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it," - Victoria Woodhull, April 2, 1870, in a newspaper column announcing her candidacy for presidency of the United States. You may know th...
Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 2 (00:21:07)
Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide. Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the Greek city states were a bunch of backwaters. An...
Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 1 (00:25:22)
Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide. Athens wasn't always a democracy, but when a tyrant overplayed his hand and a revolutionary proposed something better, it launched a new form ...
45.) Donald Trump part 1 2017-2021 (00:52:16)
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now." - Donald Trump, inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 2017. The American presidency had long fascinated Donald Trump. Ever since attending the 198...
8.A) Martin Van Buren, America's first politician, an interview with James Bradley (00:55:24)
Martin Van Buren is known as the "little magician." If he was a magician, he cast a powerful spell. The two party system he championed and helped establish has ruled the United States for two centurie...
44.A) Obama's 08' Iowa campaign, an interview with Chelsea Waliser (00:41:23)
What's it like to be on the inside of a dark horse presidential campaign? Chelsea Waliser knows. Waliser was an Obama campaign regional field director during the lead up to first-in-the-nation 2008 I...
44.) Barack Obama 2009-2017 (00:50:06)
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama, on the campaign trail, Feb. 5, 2008 ...
43.A) An Afghan Story, an interview with Sahba Azami (00:38:35)
Sahba Azami was born an Afghan refugee. Today, she's an Afghan refugee once more. But, for nearly 20 years, she was not a refugee. She was simply an Afghan. And the future was bright. Brought back to ...
45.A) The rhetoric of Donald Trump, an interview with Jennifer Mercieca (00:50:23)
Donald Trump does not talk like a politician. But where some hear truth telling, and others hear something unhinged, professor Jennifer Mercieca hears a consistent rhetorical strategy designed to bind...
43.) George W Bush 2001-2009 (00:59:22)
"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." - George W Bush, World Trade Center Site, September 14, 2001 George W. Bus...
42.A) Bill Clinton's Economic Legacy, an interview with Nelson Lichtenstein (00:59:17)
"It's the economy, stupid" - Clinton advisor James Carville, 1992. Bill Clinton left office with a 66% approval rating. This was in large part because 81% of Americans approved his handling of the ec...
42.) Bill Clinton (01:01:55)
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.’” — Bill Clinton's inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1993. Bill Clinton has the highest end-of-term approval rating ...
BONUS! 2024 Friendsgiving History Podcast Spectacular (01:01:05)
For the third consecutive year, four podcasters got together to record their annual Friendsgiving History Podcast Spectacular. Tune in as I'm joined by three fellow history podcasters and friends for ...
41.A) George Bush & the end of the Cold War, an interview with Jeff Engel (00:40:39)
George H.W. Bush presided over 4 of the most consequential years in world history. Before he entered office, a Cold War divided East and West: Democratic Capitalism vs Dictatorial Communism. After he ...
41.) George H.W. Bush (00:56:39)
“The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again. And I’ll say to them: ‘Read my lips, no new taxes.’” — George Bush's GOP Nominati...
40.A) Reaganomics and the anti-tax movement, an interview with Michael Graetz (00:55:30)
Americans have long had a complicated relationship with taxes. We don't like paying them, but we love the things they pay for. In the decades after World War II, both political parties agreed - taxes ...
38.B) The History of the Pardon, an interview with Kimberly Wehle (00:35:51)
On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned recently-resigned president Richard Nixon of any crimes he may have committed in the presidency, and the pardon has never been the same since. Law ...
2.A) John Adams and the modern presidency, an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky (00:47:39)
Pandemics, political violence, partisans recognizable by the color of their hat - it may sound novel, but it's been with us practically since the beginning of the republic. Historian Lindsay Chervinsk...
40.) Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 (01:02:41)
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem," - Ronald Reagan's inaugural address, January 20, 1981. For the first 50 years after the onset of the Great Depression and t...
39.B) Jimmy Carter, Stagflation, & Paul Volcker, an interview with Jennifer Burns (00:50:57)
When unemployment and inflation began to rise side by side in the 1970s, nobody knew what to do. Economic theory suggested it should have been impossible, and yet the numbers couldn't be denied. Stanf...
BONUS! The Hail Mary Effect in Presidential Politics, an interview with William Silber (00:48:57)
It's commonly accepted wisdom that presidents are less effective in their second terms, when the term limits of the 22nd amendment turn them into Lame Ducks who cannot be elected to office a third tim...
39.A) Jimmy Carter, the outsider, an interview with Jonathan Alter (00:54:24)
When Jimmy Carter won the presidency, his Democratic party held a 61-37 majority in the Senate and a 292-143 majority in the House. Why then, with such a clear governing majority, were his relations w...
39.) Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 (01:01:04)
"The erosion of confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of the nation," - Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979 ~~~ Jimmy Carter may have been the luckiest president...
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