All Episodes

#1717 Optimism and American Success

#1716 Once More Down the River and Over the Mountains!

#1715 Can We Save Great Salt Lake?

#1714 Christopher Nolan's Odyssey

#1713 The Magic of Joshua Jay

#1712 The Changing Face of Hollywood

#1711 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Joe Ellis on America at 250

#1710 President Jefferson Reads the Declaration

#1709 America at 250: Historian Lindsay Chervinsky

#1708 The Amazing Explorations of Francisco Coronado

#1707 Teddy Roosevelt, National Monuments and Devils Tower, Wyoming

#1706 Books about the Declaration of Independence

#1705 Free Expression and Political Repression: Stephen Colbert's Exit

#1704 A New Perspective and Book on Lewis and Clark

#1703 Russia and America Today: A Journey Down the Volga River

#1702 Thomas Jefferson on British Royalty

#1701 Thomas Jefferson in France

#1700 Clay's Take on Current Events

#1699 The Iran War and the U.S. Constitution

#1698 The Future of America's National Monuments

#1697 The State of the Union as Political Theater

#1696 Assessing America's National Parks & Public Lands at 250

#1695 New Ken Burns Documentary on Henry David Thoreau

#1694 Is a Constitutional Convention Even Possible?

#1693 Downsizing and Henry David Thoreau

#1692 The Crisis of the Public Lands

#1691 Was it Shakespearean Tragedy or Greek Tragedy?

#1690 Mount Rushmore: Its Back Story and the Continuing Controversy

#1689 Nat and Mikey Survived!

#1688 Ten Things About Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson

#1687 The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later

#1686 Venezuela, Thomas Jefferson and American Ideals

#1685 The Presidents and Political Theater

#1684 America at 250: How Did We Get Here?

#1683 Writing the American West in a Time of Disillusionment

#1682 How Do Rivers Work?

#1681 Joseph Ellis Returns with a New Book

#1680 The Continuing River Adventures of Nat and Mikey

#1679 Our Thanksgiving Show

#1678 The No Kings Protests in Historical Context

#1677 Final Frontiers: Lewis and Clark and the American Space Program

#1676 American Presidents and the Press

#1675 What Is Habeas Corpus and Why Does It Matter?

#1674 A Chat With Two Brits Who Are Floating the Missouri River From Montana to the Sea

#1673 In the Belly of the Beast

#1672 President Jefferson Discusses America at 250

#1671 Mysteries at the End of the Trail With David Nicandri

#1670 Paddling the Full Lewis and Clark Trail

#1669 A Conversation About Political Violence in America

#1668 Bittersweet Homecoming

#1667 Lunch With America's Leading Steinbeck Scholar

#1666 Ten Books on the American Revolution

#1665 Jefferson and Madison on Vacation

#1664 The Rivers of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

#1663 Presidential Finances

#1662 Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

#1661 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a New Constitution for the United States

#1660 Ten Things: The Real Patrick Henry (Live)

#1659 Theodore Roosevelt in Grand Canyon Country

#1658 Jay Carson, Boulder Outdoor Survival School and National Service

#1657 Race in America: A Retrospective

#1656 A Conversation with Novelist Anne Hillerman

#1655 Clay and Lindsay Live: Religious Freedom

#1654 Wandering In Canyon Country — A Conversation with Craig Childs

#1653 Clay and the new History Channel Series, Kevin Costner's The West

#1652 America's Public Lands: A Report Card

#1651 Ten Things About the American Revolution

#1650 A New Look at Edward Abbey

#1649 Sean Sherman and Native American Food

#1648 Hitting the Road With Lewis and Clark

#1647 The Future of the Public Lands

#1646 The Legacy of Louis L'Amour and American Western Fiction

#1645 The Resurrection of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798

#1644 Thomas Jefferson and American Diplomacy and Trade

#1643 A Cultural Tour of Cuba

#1642 The Myths That Hold America Back

#1641 Author, Hampton Sides on Captain James Cook's Amazing Third Voyage

#1640 Traveling America in Search of Its History and Stories

#1639 Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

#1638 Joe Ellis on the 2024 Presidential Election

#1637 Historical Integrity in a Hyper-Partisan Time

#1636 Special Episode: Listener Mail On Clay's Great Steinbeck Adventure

#1635 Peaceful Transfer of Power

#1634 AI and Quantum Computing, Ready or Not

#1633 The History of Presidential Transitions

#1632 A Survival Guide for the Next Four Years

#1631 The Annual Christmas Show

#1630 The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro

#1629 The Declaration of Independence and Conspiracy Theories

#1628 Civil Rights Pilgrimage with Russ Eagle

#1627 Clay and Steven Duchrow Talk Chautauqua

#1626 America's Fascination with Conspiracy Theories

#1625 Do We Have an American Narrative?

#1624 Thomas Jefferson on American Elections

#1623 Reflections on the Nation of Texas

#1622 Clay's John Steinbeck America Tour Resumes

#1621 The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon

#1620 The Hollowing Out of Rural America

#1619 A Conversation With Lindsay Chervinsky

#1618 Are We Still a Republic?

#1617 Clay's Steinbeck Travels With Charley Tour: Phase Two

#1616 The Family that Summited Everest

#1615 Understanding Lindsay Chervinsky's New Book

#1614 Native Americans and the Assimilation Movement

#1613 Republican Like Me: A Conversation with Ken Stern

#1612 Lindsay Chervinsky's New Book

#1611 John Adams' Enemies

#1610 America at 250 With Beau Breslin

#1609 Joseph Ellis Returns

#1608 Ten Things about the First Amendment

#1607 The Underground Railroad

#1606 Gun Violence in America: A Conversation with Richard Rhodes

#1605 America at 250: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin

#1604 Ten Things about Gouverneur Morris

#1603 Satire and the American Experience

#1602 Highways, Byways, and Travels With Charley: A Road Report from Vermont

#1601 John Steinbeck from Somewhere in Maine

#1600 A Conversation with Richard Rhodes

#1599 Underway! Tracing Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" Journey

#1598 A Conversation with Political Cartoonist Phil Hands

#1597 Arbor Day and the Seeds of Liberty

#1596 Ten Things on Nullification

#1595 The Solar Eclipse of 2024

#1594 Live from Oklahoma

#1593 The LTA Survey and American Reflections

#1592 Geert Mak and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley

#1591 The Election of 2024 and the Constitution

#1590 Ten Things: The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence

#1589 Loss of Respect for American Institutions

#1588 Presidential Norms

#1587 The Sad History of Executive Orders

#1586 Ten Things on Margaret Bayard Smith

#1585 Ten Things About John Randolph of Roanoke

#1584 The Red Barber Program

#1583 College Football as Cultural Lens

#1582 On the Trail of John Steinbeck

#1581 Henry Wallace and the World That Might Have Been

#1580 Ten Things about the Hamilton-Jefferson Relationship

#1579 The Holiday Show

#1578 Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian

#1577 The Listening to America Origin Story

#1576 Ten Things About the Louisiana Purchase

#1575 Mind the Gap: Between Presidential Administrations

#1574 John Steinbeck and the Western Flyer

#1573 Overrated and Underrated Presidents

#1572 Ten Things: The Post-Civil War Amendments

#1571 A Conversation With David Nicandri

#1570 Clay's 10 Propositions About Thomas Jefferson

#1569 Ten Things About the Constitutional Convention

#1568 The American Buffalo: a New Documentary by Ken Burns

#1567 Rebuilding Trust in American Institutions

#1566 How To Be a Chautauquan

#1565 Ten Things about Writing a Book

#1564 The New Look of the Jefferson Hour: Listening to America

#1563 The Formation of Thomas Jefferson

#1562 Ten Things: Counterfactual History

#1561 The Titan and the Titanic

#1560 The Oppenheimer Film as Cinema

#1559 The Plight of a Secular Society

#1558 How Accurate Was the Oppenheimer Movie?

#1557 The Death of Great Salt Lake

#1556 John Quincy Adams Part II

#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better

#1554 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization

#1553 Shackleton's Ship the Endurance Found!

#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic

#1551 On the Set of the Oppenheimer Film

#1550 The Death of Glen Canyon Dam

#1549 Welcome to Listening to America

#1548 Ten Things about Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

#1547 Jefferson, John Marshall, and Judicial Review

#1546 The Founders and the Cutting Room Floor

#1545 Live from Radford University

#1544 Ten Things about Woodrow Wilson

#1543 Are We Rome?

#1542 The Quest for the Wooly Mammoth

#1541 Ten Things About Dolley Madison

#1540 The Jeffersonians in Power

#1539 The Alcoholic Republic

#1538 Explaining the Marshall Trilogy

#1537 Thinking about Statues and Monuments

#1536 Ten Things: Jefferson and John Marshall

#1535 Forgotten Founder

#1534 Alexander Hamilton and the U.S. Constitution

#1533 A Conversation with Hamilton Scholar Hal Bidlack

#1532 The Enlightenment in 2022: A Progress Report

#1531 The Return Journey of Lewis and Clark

#1530 A Conversation with Jeffersonian Gardener Pat Brodowski

#1529 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part Two)

#1528 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part One)

#1527 Year in Review

#1526 Christmas 2022

#1525 Both Sides Now

#1524 Past Present Future with Joseph Ellis

#1523 Core Principles

#1522 Thankful

#1521 The Day After the Election with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1520 History Rhymes

#1519 The Election of 1800 with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1518 Back From France

#1517 Wall of Separation

#1516 Books and Responsibilities

#1515 Ten Things About Jefferson's Daughters with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1514 Cultural Tours, Jefferson's France, and Joseph Whitehouse

#1513 Historians at the White House with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1512 Remembering David McCullough with Joseph Ellis

#1511 The Densmore Repatriation Project

#1510 Ten Things About the 14th Amendment

#1509 A Constitution for the Living with Beau Breslin

#1508 Inconsistencies with David Nicandri

#1507 Ten Things About the Bill of Rights

#1506 Shackleton with David Nicandri

#1505 Thad's Ten Things

#1504 Talking Philadelphia

#1503 The Opposite of Apathy with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky

#1502 Ten Things About the Supreme Court

#1501 4th of July

#1500 Vince from Uvalde

#1499 The Enlightenment with Joseph Ellis

#1498 The Cost of War

#1497 Ten Things About Theodore Roosevelt (Part Two)

#1496 Ten Things About Theodore Roosevelt (Part One)

#1495 National Bank

#1494 Ten Things About John Jay

#1493 Plato's Republic

#1492 Ten Things About King George III

#1491 American Character

#1490 Ten Things About Benjamin Rush

#1489 The Field of Blood with Joanne Freeman

#1488 Ten Things About Benjamin Franklin

#1487 In Pursuit of Jefferson with Derek Baxter

#1486 Ten Things About Crossing the Delaware

#1485 HMS Endeavour with David Nicandri

#1484 Ten Things About James Monroe

#1483 Jason Miyares: Attorney General of Virginia

#1482 Dead Pool with James L. Powell

#1481 Bet the Farm with Beth Hoffman

#1480 Ten Things About Lafayette

#1479 Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson with Darren Staloff

#1478 Patrick Henry with John Ragosta

#1477 Ten Things About Abigail Adams

#1476 Henry Laurens and the Tower of London

#1475 Happy New Year

#1474 Ten Things About Alexander Hamilton

#1473 Our First Civil War with H.W. Brands

#1472 November Losses with Joseph Ellis

#1471 Inn at Meander

#1470 James Madison with Jay Cost

#1469 Locked Down

#1468 Triumph and Tragedy with Joseph Ellis

#1467 Majority Rule with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1466 Tread on Me

#1465 The True Story with Russ Eagle

#1464 Jouett's Ride

#1463 Petrification with David Nicandri

#1462 The Cause with Joseph Ellis

#1461 Circular to the Heads of Departments

#1460 The Enlightenment with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1459 Madison's Journals

#1458 Voting Rights

#1457 A Poem from the Garden

#1456 Written in Your Heart

#1455 Thomas Paine with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1454 Peaceful Transition

#1453 Fourth of July Questions

#1452 Lewis and Clark Extras

#1451 Presidential Tech

#1450 In the Garden

#1449 Second and Fourth

#1448 American Narrative

#1447 The History of D.C. with Lindsay Chervinsky

#1446 The Signers

#1445 No Enlightenment, No America

#1444 The Language of Cottonwoods

#1443 Washington and Jefferson

#1442 Questions and Books

#1441 On Citizenship

#1440 Enslavement

#1439 Mutual Strength and Advantage

#1438 The Gun Men

#1437 Jefferson's Birthday

#1436 Appointments and Disappointments

#1435 Rebellion Revisited

#1434 Joe Mail

#1433 Sedition Act

#1432 Leadership and Character

#1431 A Little Rebellion

#1430 Argument Is the Answer

#1429 I Have Some Questions

#1428 A Few Plain Duties

#1427 Jefferson's First Cabinet

#1426 Jefferson's First Inauguration

#1425 The Transition

#1424 The Bill of Rights

#1423 New Years 2020

#1422 Christmas 2020

#1421 The Two Jeffersons

#1420 HannaLore Hein

#1419 Our Weariness

#1418 Captain Cook

#1417 After the Election with Joseph Ellis

#1416 What Just Happened?

#1415 Opinions and Principles

#1414 A Nation Divided

#1413 Jefferson the Lawyer

#1412 His Excellency

#1411 Supreme Court

#1410 Monticello Overtime

#1409 American Sphinx with Joseph Ellis

#1408 Aaron Burr

#1407 Our Perilous Contest

#1406 Election of 1800

#1405 Monuments Response

#1404 Humor Me

#1403 Power and Dissent

#1402 Monuments

#1401 Match Recap with Joseph Ellis

#1400 Prairie Woods

#1399 The Cabinet with Lindsay M. Chervinsky

#1398 The Indispensable Man

#1397 4th of July

#1396 Joe's Questions

Complicity

#1395 The Few and the Many

#1394 Day Books and Journals

#1393 Memorial Day

#1392 Self-Reliance

#1391 Jefferson-Adams Letters (Part Four)

#1390 Jefferson-Adams Letters (Part Three)

#1389 Jefferson-Adams Letters (Part Two)

#1388 Jefferson-Adams Letters (Part One)

#1387 Leadership During Crisis

#1386 Yellow Fever with Stephen Fried

#1385 Virtual Virus (Part Two)

#1384 Virtual Virus (Part One)

#1383 Out of Tights

#1382 The Yellow Fever of 1793

#1381 No Kings, No Queens

#1380 Cuba Libre

#1379 Constituents Represented

#1378 More TJ Please

#1377 Naturalist in the Arena

#1376 Historian's Perspective

#1375 Catherine's Story

#1374 Double Cheese Please

#1373 Separation of Powers

#1372 Incarceration

#1371 The New Year

#1370 Jefferson's Impeachments

Rewriting the Constitution

#1369 Four Scholars

#1368 Benjamin Franklin's Puffy Rolls

1776 Club Preview: Working with Ken Burns

#1367 Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

#1366 American Creation with Joseph Ellis

1776 Club Preview: Storytelling

#1365 Back from France

#1364 Listener Questions

#1363 The Social Contract

#1362 Gardens to Miniatures

#1361 Constitution in Crisis

#1360 To Cuba

#1359 To Oxford

#1358 Robinson Crusoe

#1357 The Dempster Highway

#1356 Considering Exceptionalism

#1355 Inventive Behavior

#1354 In 1969

#1353 Humboldt and Jefferson

#1352 Clunky Adjectives

#1351 Eight Objects

#1350 Diamonds and Dunghills

#1349 Jefferson's Soul

#1348 Tulip Poplars

#1347 Chernow's Hamilton

#1346 In Search of America

#1345 Independence Day

The Supreme Court

#1344 Baked In

The Wealth of Nations

#1343 Forty Books

Presidential Indictments

#1342 Dressing Down

Clay in Search of America: Granby, CO

#1341 Dinner with Jefferson

#1340 A Gloom Unbrightened

#1339 Questions and Answers

#1338 Notes on the State of Virginia

#1337 The Vaunted Scene

#1336 Brodowski and Wright

#1335 The Mustard Seed

#1334 Benjamin Rush with Stephen Fried

#1333 The Constitution Today

Let Us Read the Mueller Report

#1332 Smallpox

Ne Plus Ultra

#1331 Young Washington with Peter Stark

#1330 Wilderness and War

#1329 Laboratories of Democracy

#1328 Constitutional Correspondence

Appropriations

#1327 Complex Compromises

#1326 No Just Government Should Refuse

#1325 Pax Americana

#1324 Lochsa

#1323 The Only Security of All Is in a Free Press

#1322 Roosevelt and Jefferson

Government Shutdowns

#1321 January First

#1320 Looking Forward

#1319 Looking Back

#1318 Was Thomas Jefferson a Christian?

Edmond-Charles Genêt

#1317 Madison's Letters

Liberal Education

#1316 James Madison (Part Two)

#1315 James Madison (Part One)

Poplar Forest

#1314 Our Friend Beau

#1313 Gratitude and Thanks

#1312 Elections Matter

Jamal Khashoggi

#1311 Jefferson's Views

Voting

#1310 Valley Forge with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

Water

#1309 Water for a Dry Land with Char Miller

Ancient Rome's Influence

#1308 American Dialogue with Joseph Ellis

Emancipation

#1307 Live in Pittsburg, KS

#1306 Ossian

#1305 Wine and Welshmen

#1304 To France

Other Explorations of the West

#1303 Can We Talk?

Honoring John McCain

#1302 Alarm Poll

How to Handle Partisan Division

#1301 Farewell Address

Civil Discourse

#1300 Better Arguments

Enemy of the People

#1299 Jefferson's Mistakes

Traveling West

#1298 As Requested

#1297 While You Were Away

Defending America in the World Arena

#1296 Mil

Cartography

#1295 Too Né

Supreme Court Appointments

#1294 Judicial Responsibility

The Declaration of Independence

#1293 4th of July

#1292 Common Sense

#1291 Circumstances

#1290 Adjustments

#1289 Jefferson's Vision

#1288 Truth Matters

#1287 The Hardest Job

#1286 First Family (Part Two)

#1285 First Family (Part One)

#1284 Foreign Policy

#1283 The General Welfare

#1282 The Map

#1281 Unanswered Questions

#1280 Tomatoes

#1279 The Art of the Letter

#1278 Adams, Bees and Guns

#1277 Gerrymandering

#1276 Revolutionary Summer

#1275 Joseph Ellis

#1274 The Classics

#1273 Three Friends

#1272 Raleigh

#1271 Current Events

#1270 Total Extirpation

#1269 Mrs. Smith

#1268 Peaceful Transition

#1267 Fiction or Non

#1266 Looking Back at 2017

#1265 Christmas 2017

#1264 Representation

#1263 Jefferson's Travels

#1262 The Final Years (Part Three)

#1261 Jefferson's Table

#1260 The Final Years (Part Two)

#1259 The Final Years (Part One)

#1258 Dissent is Essential

#1257 Down from the Mountain

#1256 Last Refuge

#1255 Show Mister Jefferson

#1254 Magic of the Word

#1253 Second Term

#1252 Mildness & Amenity

#1251 Checks & Balances

#1250 Totality

#1249 Amor Patriae

#1248 Private Thoughts

#1247 On My Doorstep

#1246 Special Places

#1245 This Thing of Darkness

#1244 A Free Nation

#1243 Mister President

#1242 Inside the White House

#1241 4th of July

#1240 Becoming President

#1239 Original Argument

#1238 Presidential Decorum

#1237 More Listener Letters

#1236 Listener Letters

#1235 American Character

#1234 Jefferson's Talents

#1233 Neither Wolf nor Dog

#1232 Listener Questions

#1231 Jefferson's Garden

#1230 Judgment

#1229 Vice President

#1228 Budgets

#1227 The Missing Book

#1226 American Happiness

#1225 Liberty's First Crisis

#1224 Friends of the Hour

#1223 The Logan Act

#1222 First Retirement (Part Two)

#1221 The First 100 Days

#1220 First Retirement (Part One)

#1219 Inauguration, Then & Now

#1218 Two Parties

The Jefferson Watch: The Inauguration

Thomas Jefferson's Inauguration

#1217 Secretary of State (Part Two)

#1216 Secretary of State (Part One)

#1215 When in Rome

#1214 Remembering 2016

#1213 Jefferson Christmas 2016

#1212 Questions From Maryland

#1211 Constitution Day in Maryland

#1210 Optimistic Revolution

#1209 Trial by Jury

#1208 We Have Voted

#1207 The Elections of 1800 and 2016

#1206 Save the Republic (Part Two)

#1205 Save the Republic (Part One)

#1204 Minimum Wage

#1203 Benjamin Franklin's Visit

#1202 Income Inequality (Live in Fargo)

#1201 Religion (Live in Fargo)

#1200 Our Republic

#1199 America First

#1198 Winners and Losers

#1197 Load the Pipes

#1196 Jefferson 113 (Jefferson in Paris)

#1195 Jefferson 112 (Jefferson in Paris)

#1194 Jefferson 111 (Jefferson in Paris)

#1193 What They Said

#1192 Catherine and the Classics

#1191 A Bleak Moment

#1190 Jefferson's Daughters