All Episodes

Jonathan Jordan, "Ike and Winston

Scott Greenberger, "The Forsaken Founder"

Joby Warrick, "The Jackal"

Paul Taylor, "This Is Getting Old"

JD Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy"

John Jenkins, "Summer of '71" – Part 2

John Jenkins, "Summer of '71" – Part 1

Christine Kuehn, "Family of Spies"

Ted Widmer, "The Living Declaration"

Valerie Fridland, "Why We Talk Funny"

Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State"

Richard Brookhiser, "The Hero Returns"

Michael Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet"

David Garrow on Martin Luther King, Jr. & Barack Obama

Lerone Bennett Jr., "Forced Into Glory"

Lois Romano, "An Inconvenient Widow"

Danny Funt, "Everybody Loses"

Theo Baker, "How to Rule the World"

Harvey Mansfield, "Where Harvard Went Wrong"

Bruce Nichols, "The Emerson Circle"

Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise"

Antony Beevor, "Rasputin"

Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"

Giles Tremlett, "El Generalísimo"

Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes"

Michael Hastings, "The Operators"

Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel

Josh Ireland, "The Death of Trotsky"

Richard John Neuhaus, "As I Lay Dying"

David Sirota, "Master Plan"

Elliot Williams, "Five Bullets"

Candace Rondeaux, "Putin's Sledgehammer"

Ep. 257 Carol Hymowitz on 10 Books That Changed the Way Americans Thought About Work

Ep. 256 Jonathan Horn, "The Fate of the Generals"

Ep. 255 Anne Marshall, "Cassius Marcellus Clay"

Ep. 253 Ben Freeman, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine"

Ep. 252 John Ferling, "Shots Heard Round the World"

Ep. 251 Frank McCourt on Angela’s Ashes: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Memoir

Ep.250 Peter Gomes, "The Good Book"

Ep. 249 Alexandra Churchill, "Ring of Fire"

Ep. 248 Kenneth Vogel, "Devils' Advocates"

Ep. 247 Doug Most, "Launching Liberty"

Ep. 246 Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story

Ep. 245 Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"

Ep. 244 William Galston, "Anger, Fear, Domination"

Ep. 243 Peter Henriques Explores George Washington’s Character and Presidency

Ep. 242 Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life

Ep. 241 Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

Ep. 240 Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s

Ep. 239 Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power

Ep. 238 Daniel Flynn, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism"

Ep. 237 Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Failure: Communism in the 20th Century

Ep. 236 Edward Luce, "Zbig" - Zbigniew Brzezinski & Carter Era U.S. Foreign Policy

Ep. 235 Simon Ball, "Death to Order"

Ep. 234 Sam Tanenhaus, "Buckley"

Ep. 233 Jay Winik, "1861"

Ep. 232 Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

Ep. 231 David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln"

Ep. 230 Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner"

Ep. 229 John Seabrook, "The Spinach King"

Ep. 228 Evan Osnos, "The Haves and Have-Yachts"

Ep. 227 Dave Barry, "Class Clown"

Ep. 226 John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"

Ep. 225 Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"

Ep. 224 William Geroux, "The Fifteen"

Ep. 223 Claire Hoffman, "Sister, Sinner"

Ep. 222 Kathryn Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen"

Ep. 221 Kenneth Rogoff, "Our Dollar, Your Problem"

Ep. 220 Rick Atkinson, "The Fate of the Day"

Ep. 219 Rick Atkinson, "An Army at Dawn"

Ep. 218 Thomas Maier, "The Invisible Spy"

Ep. 217 Clay Risen, "Red Scare"

Ep. 216 Jill Eicher, "Mellon vs. Churchill"

Ep. 215 Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"

Ep. 214 Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"

Ep. 213 Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"

Ep. 212 Dennis Hutchinson, "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox"

Ep. 211 Stuart Banner, "The Most Powerful Court in the World"

The C-SPAN Story

Ep. 210 Steven Gillon, "Presidents at War"

Ep. 209 Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"

Ep. 208 Katherine Carter, "Churchill's Citadel"

Ep. 207 Ruth Franklin, "The Many Lives of Anne Frank"

Ep. 206 Sean McMeekin, "July 1914"

Ep. 205 David Levering Lewis, "The Stained Glass Window"

Ep. 204 Jane Calvert, "Penman of the Founding"

Ep. 203 Robert Kaplan, "Waste Land"

Ep. 202 John Berendt, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

Ep. 201 Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer on His Life & Work

Ep. 200 Michael Tackett, "The Price of Power"

Ep. 199 Brion McClanahan, "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America"

Ep. 198 Peter Osnos, "LBJ & McNamara"

Ep. 197: Edward Aldrich, "The Partnership"

Ep. 196 James Bradley, "Martin Van Buren"

Ep. 195 Evan Thomas, "The Wise Men"

Ep. 194 Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People"

Ep. 193 Talmage Boston, "How the Best Did It"

Ep. 192 Kyla Scanlon, "In This Economy?"

Ep. 191 Tess Owen, "Inside the Patriot Wing"

Ep. 190 Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"