All Episodes

#202: Stephen Knott - "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency"

#201: Amy Littlefield - "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights"

#200: 200th episode celebration with Kate Carpenter of "Drafting the Past"

#199: Megan Kate Nelson - "The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier"

#198: Andrew Porwancher - "American Maccabee - Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews"

#197: Gloria Browne-Marshall - "A Protest History of the United States"

#196: Heather Ann Thompson - "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage"

#195: Andrew Burstein - "Being Thomas Jefferson: "An Intimate History"

#194: Richard Bell - "The American Revolution and the Fate of the World"

#193: Vaughn Joy - "Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy"

#192: Charles Ferguson - "Presidential Seclusion: The Power of Camp David"

#191: Matthew Davis - "A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mt. Rushmore"

#190: David Baron - "The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America"

#189: Joseph J. Ellis - "The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding"

#188: Julia Azari - "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History"

#187: Howard Husock - "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing"

#186: Seth Wickersham - "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback"

#185: Claudia Rowe - "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care"

#184: Jonathan Mahler - The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990

#183: Iain MacGregor - "The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It"

#182: James Bradley - "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician"

#181: J. Randy Taraborrelli - "JFK: Public, Private, Secret"

#180 - Fifth Anniversay Celebration with HW Brands - "A User's Guide to History"

#179: Russell Shorto - "Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America"

#178: Edda Fields-Black - "Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom During the Civil War"

#177: Rachel Cockerell - "Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land"

#176: Marcus Gadson - "Sedition: How America's Constitutional Order Emerged from Violent Crisis"

#175: Suzanne Cope - "Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis"

#174: Judith Giesberg - "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families"

#173: Clay Risen - "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America"

#172: Rebecca Brenner Graham - "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany"

#171: Ronald Gruner - “COVID Wars: America's Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom”

#170: Steve Gillon - "Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush"

#169: William Haldeman - "Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership that Transformed America"

#168: Elizabeth Block - “Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing”

#167: Evan Friss - "The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore"

#166: Heath Hardage Lee - "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

#165: David Greenberg - "John Lewis: A Life"

#164: Frank Guridy - "The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest and Play"

#163: Megan Gorman - "All The Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money"

#162: Kevin Baker - "The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City"

#161: Max Boot - "Reagan: His Life and Legend"

#160: Clara Bingham - "The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973"

#159: Corey Brettschneider - "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It"

#158: Francis Barry - "Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey Into the Heart of American Democracy"

#157: Lindsay Chervinsky - "Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic"

#156: Dr. Andrea Balis & Elizabeth Levy - "Witch Hunt: The Cold War, Joe McCarthy, and the Red Scare"

#155: Julie Satow - "When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion"

#154: Adam Higginbotham - "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space"

#153: Edward O'Keefe - "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt"

#152: Paul Sparrow - "Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words with Charles Lindbergh - And the Battle to Save Democracy"

#151: Gary Cross - "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal"

#150: Susan Tate Ankeny - "American Flygirl: The True Story of Hazel Ying Lee"

#149: James Swanson - "The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America"

#148: Jason Lantzer - "Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust"

#147: Harold Holzer - "Brought Forth on This Continent"

#146: David Head & Timothy Hemmis - "A Republic of Scoundrels"

#145: Martyn Whittock - "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America"

#144: John Reeves - "Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant"

#143: Matthew Algeo - "When Harry Met Pablo"

#142: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd - "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and Campus Wars"

#141: Doug Melville - "Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals"

#140: Drew McKevitt: "Gun Country"

#139: Richard Aldous - "The Dillon Era"

#138: Douglas Brunt - "The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel"

#137: Scott Shane - "Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland"

#136: J. Randy Taraborrelli - "Jackie: Public, Private, Secret"

#135: Adam Lazarus - "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams"

#134: Colin Dickey - "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy"

#133: Paul Moses - "The Italian Squad"

#132: Laurence Jurdem - "The Rough Rider and the Professor"

#131: Richard Norton Smith - "An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford"

#130: John Wood Sweet - "The Sewing Girl's Tale"

#129: Matthew Clavin - "Symbols of Freedom"

#128: Jean Pfaelzer - "California: A Slave State"

#127: Jonathan Eig - "King: A Life"

#126: Bob Kealing - "Good Day Sunshine State"

#125: Nathan Masters - "Crooked"

#124: Helene Stapinski & Bonnie Siegler - "The American Way"

#123: Alex Prud'homme - "Dinner with the President"

#122: Richard Goodrich - "Comet Madness"

#121: Christopher Gorham - "The Confidante"

#120: Ed Achorn - "The Lincoln Miracle"

#119: Mark Whitaker - "Saying it Loud"

#118: Gautam Mukunda - "Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World"

#117: Kate Andersen Brower - "Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon"

#116: Kelly Weill - "Off the Edge"

#115: Lindsay Chervinsky - Mourning the Presidents

#114: David Marchick - "The Peaceful Transfer of Power"

#113: Philip Bump - "The Aftermath"

#112: Stacy Schiff - "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams"

#111: Adam Mendelsohn - "Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War"

#110: Natalia Petrzela - "Fit Nation"

#109: Neal Gabler - "Against The Wind: Ted Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism"

#108: Keri Leigh Merritt - "After Life"

#107: Andrew Rice - "The Year that Broke America"

#106: Jeremi Suri - "Civil War by Other Means"

#105: Stephen Knott - "Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy"

#104: Bryan Appleyard - "The Car"

#103: Carole Adrienne - "Healing a Divided Nation"

#102: Paul Fischer - "The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures"

#101: Peter Baker - "The Divider"

#100: A Celebration of History

#99: Cody Keenan: "Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America"

#98: Kostya Kennedy - "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson"

#97: James Kirchick - "Secret City"

#96: Leah Sottile - "When the Moon Turns to Blood"

#95: Eric Jay Dolin - "Rebels at Sea"

#94: Justin Tinsley - "It Was All a Dream"

#93: Natalie Jacobson - "Natalie Jacobson Reporting"

#92: Daniel Levy - "Manhattan Phoenix"

#91: Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster - "Seen and Unseen"

#90: Mark Arsenault - "The Imposter's War"

#89: Philip Dray - "A Lynching at Port Jervis"

#88: A.J. Baime - "White Lies"

#87: Kate Clifford Larson - "Walk with Me"

#86: Edward Renehan - "Deliberate Evil"

#85: Richard Cohen - "Making History"

#84: J.D. Dickey - "The Republic of Violence"

#83: A.K. Fielding - "Rough Diamond"

#82: Jeffrey Frank - "The Trials of Harry S. Truman"

#81: Amanda Frost - "You Are Not American"

#80: William Hazelgrove - "One Hundred and Sixty Minutes"

#79: Neil Lanctot - "The Approaching Storm"

#78: Blake Scott Ball - "Charlie Brown's America"

#77: Meriel Schindler - "The Lost Cafe Schindler"

#76: Megan Kate Nelson - "Saving Yellowstone"

#75: Andrew Roberts - "The Last King of America"

#74: Warren Milteer - "Beyond Slavery's Shadow"

#73: Kyle Harper - "Plagues Upon the Earth"

#72: Michael Holzman - "Spies and Traitors"

#71: Leah Price - "What We Talk About When We Talk About Books"

#70: Peter Coleman - "The Way Out"

#69: Peter Bergen - "The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden"

#68: Amy Argetsinger - "There She Was"

#67: Patrick Lacroix - "JFK and the Politics of Faith"

#66: Hadassah Lieberman - "Hadassah: An American Story"

#65: Robert Levine - "The Failed Promise"

#64: Joseph J. Ellis - "The Cause"

#63: Rebecca DeWolf - "Gendered Citizenship"

#62: Joshua Scacco - "The Ubiquitous Presidency"

#61: Michael Bender - "Frankly, We Did Win This Election"

#60: Claude Clegg - "The Black President"

#59: Amy Russo - "Women of the White House"

#58: Robert Strauss - "John Marshall: The Final Founder"

#57: Ken Ellingwood - "First to Fall"

An Announcement - We’ll Be Back!

#56: Edward Achorn - "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey"

#55: Kate Masur - "Until Justice Be Done"

#54: Thomas Dyja: "New York, New York, New York"

#53: Heather Cox Richardson - "Letters From an American"

#52: Michael Burlingame - "An American Marriage"

#51: Serena Zabin - "The Boston Massacre"

#50: Zachary Schrag - "The Fires of Philadelphia"

#49: Vincent DiGirolamo - "Crying the News"

#48: Paul Kendrick - "Nine Days"

#47: Glenn Stout - "Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid"

#46: Annette Gordon-Reed - "On Juneteenth"

#45: Dov Waxman - "Trouble in the Tribe"

#44: Megan Kate Nelson - "The Three Cornered War"

#43: Jamal Greene - "How Rights Went Wrong"

#42: Jonathan Cohn - "The Ten Year War: Obamacare"

#41: David Head - "A Crisis of Peace"

#40: Julia Cooke - "Come Fly the World"

#39: Eric Rauchway - "Winter War"

#38: Cathryn Prince - "Queen of the Mountaineers"

#37: Kyle Riismandel - "Neighborhood of Fear"

#36: Wendy Lower - "The Ravine"

#35: William Sturkey - "Hattiesburg"

#34: Jennifer Armstrong - "Seinfeldia"

#33: Richard Bell - "Stolen"

#32: Kate Andersen Brower - "The Residence"

#31: Edward Achorn - "Every Drop of Blood"

#30: Matthew Algeo - "The President is a Sick Man

#29: Harold Holzer - "The Presidents vs. The Press"

#28: A'Lelia Bundles - "On Her Own Ground"

#27: Neal Gabler - "Catching the Wind"

#26: Catherine Grace Katz - "The Daughters of Yalta"

#25: Jonathan Alter - "His Very Best"

#24: Erika Lee - "America for Americans"

#23: David Maraniss - "Barack Obama: The Story"

#22: Wayne Coffey - "They Said It Couldn't Be Done"

#21: Matt Grossmann - Election Analysis

#20: Jeremi Suri - "The Impossible Presidency"

#19: A.J. Baime - "Dewey Defeats Truman"

#18: Special Episode - Ten Questions with Professor Buzzkill

#17: Lindsay Chervinsky - "The Cabinet"

#16: Stephen Knott - "The Lost Soul of the American Presidency"

#14: Steven Levingston - "Barack and Joe"

#15: James Poniewozik - "Audience of One"

#13: Benjamin Railton - "Of Thee I Sing"

#12: Regina Bradley - "Chronicling Stankonia"

#11: John Nixon - "Debriefing the President"

#10: Alexis Coe - "You Never Forget Your First"

#9: Koritha Mitchell - "From Slave Cabins to the White House"

#8: Julie Satow - "The Plaza"

#7: Robert Gellately - "Hitler's True Believers"

#6: Craig Pittman - "Oh, Florida!"

#5: Mayor Mike Signer - "Cry Havoc"

#4: Keri Leigh Merritt - "Masterless Men"

#3: Chris McGreal - "American Overdose"

#2: Sarah Milov - "The Cigarette"

#1: Kate Andersen Brower - "Team of Five"