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For the Ages: A History Podcast — 172 episodes
America’s Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Times
Viva la revolución: Spain's Role in American Military Conflicts
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Mark Twain
Baseball's Past and Present
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America
A Conversation with Oscar Tang on Business, Art, and Civic Leadership
Conducting New York’s Legacy
Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters
McNamara at War: A New History
The American Revolution: An Intimate History
Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World War II
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution
A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
John Adams: His Life and Legacy
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History
Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
The Lyndon B. Johnson Years
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (RE-RELEASE)
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (RE-RELEASE)
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America (RE-RELEASE)
America’s Ongoing Reconstruction
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Justice by Means of Democracy
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
A Conversation with James Patterson
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial―and My Own
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
The British Are Coming
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America
Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (RE-RELEASE)
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 (RE-RELEASE)
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson (RE-RELEASE)
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (RE-RELEASE)
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
JFK and the Promise of Democracy
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part Two
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part One
Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
Mourning the Presidents
The Age of Lincoln
Coolidge
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part Two
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One
John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years
John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
Conflict: The Evolution of Modern Warfare
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Sicily, Italy, and North Africa
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Beyond the White House: From George Washington to Donald Trump
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House
Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
American Republics, 1783–1850: Slavery, Native Americans, and American Identity
American Republics, 1783–1850: Democracy and Empire
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Flora MacDonald: Journey to the New World and the Revolutionary War
Flora Macdonald: The Escape of “Bonnie” Prince Charlie
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945
Our Composite Nation: The Reconstruction of American Democracy in the Age of the Civil War
American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
Silent Spring Revolution: American Presidents and the Great Environmental Awakening
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Cuba: An American History
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis: Part II
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis: Part I
Ways and Means: How the Confederacy Financed the Civil War
Ways and Means: How the Union Financed the Civil War
American Inheritance: Slavery and the New Republic
American Inheritance: Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part II
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part I
Lincoln and Emancipation
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
The Bald Eagle Part Two: The History of the Bald Eagle in America
The Bald Eagle Part One: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
My Life in Special Operations: Operation Neptune Spear and the Raid on the bin Laden Compound
My Life in Special Operations: The Capture of Saddam Hussein
In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions
A Conversation with Tom Brokaw
A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed
Presidential Elections and the Supreme Court
A Conversation with Billie Jean King
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
Robert E. Lee: A Life
A Conversation with Eric Foner
A Conversation with Louise Mirrer
How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Three Days at the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783
Abraham Lincoln in His Times
How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956
A Conversation with Jeffrey Rosen: The Life and Legacy of Justice Ginsburg
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
A Conversation with Brenda Child
The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream
Cover Story: Katharine Graham, CEO
A Conversation with John M. Barry: The Great Influenza
The World: A Brief Introduction
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the Blitz
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
A Conversation with Akhil Reed Amar: The Electoral College
Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
A Conversation with Michael Beschloss
A Conversation with Bernard L. Schwartz
A Conversation with Walter Isaacson
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
Shakespeare in a Divided America
An Evening with Drew Gilpin Faust
An Evening with Robert A. Caro: Working
An Evening with Jill Lepore
A Conversation with Ron Chernow
Silver, Sword, and Stone: A History of Latin America
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom Featuring: H.W. Brands
A Conversation with Joanne Freeman: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
A Conversation with Philip Deloria: America’s First Inhabitants
A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle