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For the Ages: A History Podcast — 164 episodes

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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

2

The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America

3

A Conversation with Oscar Tang on Business, Art, and Civic Leadership

4

Conducting New York’s Legacy

5

Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters

6

McNamara at War: A New History

7

The American Revolution: An Intimate History

8

Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World War II

9

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution

10

A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park

11

Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House

12

Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

13

John Adams: His Life and Legacy

14

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History

15

Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution

16

Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic

17

The Lyndon B. Johnson Years

18

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (RE-RELEASE)

19

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (RE-RELEASE)

20

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

21

One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America (RE-RELEASE)

22

America’s Ongoing Reconstruction

23

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

24

Justice by Means of Democracy

25

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

26

Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

27

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

28

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

29

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

30

A Conversation with James Patterson

31

The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

32

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

33

The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency

34

American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial―and My Own

35

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

36

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

37

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

38

The British Are Coming

39

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

40

The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

41

One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America

42

Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol

43

A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (RE-RELEASE)

44

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 (RE-RELEASE)

45

A Conversation with Walter Isaacson (RE-RELEASE)

46

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (RE-RELEASE)

47

The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens

48

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

49

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President

50

The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man

51

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

52

JFK and the Promise of Democracy

53

LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

54

Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President

55

In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863

56

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

57

How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents

58

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

59

Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War

60

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

61

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part Two

62

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part One

63

Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

64

Mourning the Presidents

65

The Age of Lincoln

66

Coolidge

67

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part Two

68

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One

69

John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years

70

John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency

71

Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

72

Conflict: The Evolution of Modern Warfare

73

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

74

The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

75

The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

76

The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Sicily, Italy, and North Africa

77

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

78

The Witches: Salem, 1692

79

Beyond the White House: From George Washington to Donald Trump

80

The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House

81

Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation

82

American Republics, 1783–1850: Slavery, Native Americans, and American Identity

83

American Republics, 1783–1850: Democracy and Empire

84

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

85

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

86

Flora MacDonald: Journey to the New World and the Revolutionary War

87

Flora Macdonald: The Escape of “Bonnie” Prince Charlie

88

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945

89

Our Composite Nation: The Reconstruction of American Democracy in the Age of the Civil War

90

American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020

91

Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

92

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

93

Silent Spring Revolution: American Presidents and the Great Environmental Awakening

94

The Year of Peril: America in 1942

95

Cuba: An American History

96

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis: Part II

97

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis: Part I

98

Ways and Means: How the Confederacy Financed the Civil War

99

Ways and Means: How the Union Financed the Civil War

100

American Inheritance: Slavery and the New Republic

101

American Inheritance: Slavery in the Revolutionary Era

102

How to Invest: Masters on the Craft

103

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part II

104

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Part I

105

Lincoln and Emancipation

106

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

107

The Bald Eagle Part Two: The History of the Bald Eagle in America

108

The Bald Eagle Part One: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

109

My Life in Special Operations: Operation Neptune Spear and the Raid on the bin Laden Compound

110

My Life in Special Operations: The Capture of Saddam Hussein

111

In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam

112

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

113

The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story

114

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

115

The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions

116

A Conversation with Tom Brokaw

117

A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed

118

Presidential Elections and the Supreme Court

119

A Conversation with Billie Jean King

120

Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World

121

Robert E. Lee: A Life

122

A Conversation with Eric Foner

123

A Conversation with Louise Mirrer

124

How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

125

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

126

Three Days at the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II

127

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

128

The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783

129

Abraham Lincoln in His Times

130

How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions

131

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956

132

A Conversation with Jeffrey Rosen: The Life and Legacy of Justice Ginsburg

133

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

134

A Conversation with Brenda Child

135

The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream

136

Cover Story: Katharine Graham, CEO

137

A Conversation with John M. Barry: The Great Influenza

138

The World: A Brief Introduction

139

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

140

A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

141

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the Blitz

142

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

143

A Conversation with Akhil Reed Amar: The Electoral College

144

Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

145

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

146

A Conversation with Michael Beschloss

147

A Conversation with Bernard L. Schwartz

148

A Conversation with Walter Isaacson

149

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

150

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

151

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

152

Shakespeare in a Divided America

153

An Evening with Drew Gilpin Faust

154

An Evening with Robert A. Caro: Working

155

An Evening with Jill Lepore

156

A Conversation with Ron Chernow

157

Silver, Sword, and Stone: A History of Latin America

158

The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom Featuring: H.W. Brands

159

A Conversation with Joanne Freeman: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

160

The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency

161

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

162

A Conversation with Philip Deloria: America’s First Inhabitants

163

A Conversation with Cokie Roberts

164

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle