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For the Ages: A History Podcast — 169 episodes

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Viva la revolución: Spain's Role in American Military Conflicts

2

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

3

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

4

Mark Twain

5

Baseball's Past and Present

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

Conducting New York’s Legacy

10

Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters

11

McNamara at War: A New History

12

The American Revolution: An Intimate History

13

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

14

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

John Adams: His Life and Legacy

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

The Lyndon B. Johnson Years

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

America’s Ongoing Reconstruction

28

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

29

Justice by Means of Democracy

30

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

31

Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

A Conversation with James Patterson

36

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

37

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

38

The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency

39

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

40

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

41

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

42

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

43

The British Are Coming

44

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

45

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

46

One Nation Under God: A History of Religion in America

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

A Conversation with Walter Isaacson (RE-RELEASE)

51

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

52

The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

JFK and the Promise of Democracy

58

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

59

Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

Mourning the Presidents

70

The Age of Lincoln

71

Coolidge

72

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

73

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

74

John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years

75

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

76

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

77

Conflict: The Evolution of Modern Warfare

78

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

83

The Witches: Salem, 1692

84

Beyond the White House: From George Washington to Donald Trump

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

American Republics, 1783–1850: Democracy and Empire

89

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

90

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

91

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

92

Flora Macdonald: The Escape of “Bonnie” Prince Charlie

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

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

98

Silent Spring Revolution: American Presidents and the Great Environmental Awakening

99

The Year of Peril: America in 1942

100

Cuba: An American History

101

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

102

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

103

Ways and Means: How the Confederacy Financed the Civil War

104

Ways and Means: How the Union Financed the Civil War

105

American Inheritance: Slavery and the New Republic

106

American Inheritance: Slavery in the Revolutionary Era

107

How to Invest: Masters on the Craft

108

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

109

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

110

Lincoln and Emancipation

111

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

My Life in Special Operations: The Capture of Saddam Hussein

116

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

117

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

118

The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story

119

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

120

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

121

A Conversation with Tom Brokaw

122

A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed

123

Presidential Elections and the Supreme Court

124

A Conversation with Billie Jean King

125

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

126

Robert E. Lee: A Life

127

A Conversation with Eric Foner

128

A Conversation with Louise Mirrer

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

133

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

134

Abraham Lincoln in His Times

135

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

136

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

137

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

138

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

139

A Conversation with Brenda Child

140

The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream

141

Cover Story: Katharine Graham, CEO

142

A Conversation with John M. Barry: The Great Influenza

143

The World: A Brief Introduction

144

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

145

A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

146

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

147

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

148

A Conversation with Akhil Reed Amar: The Electoral College

149

Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

150

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

151

A Conversation with Michael Beschloss

152

A Conversation with Bernard L. Schwartz

153

A Conversation with Walter Isaacson

154

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

155

Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

156

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

157

Shakespeare in a Divided America

158

An Evening with Drew Gilpin Faust

159

An Evening with Robert A. Caro: Working

160

An Evening with Jill Lepore

161

A Conversation with Ron Chernow

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency

166

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

167

A Conversation with Philip Deloria: America’s First Inhabitants

168

A Conversation with Cokie Roberts

169

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle