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BONUS | The presidents who’ve tried to win back the White House

BONUS | Women, politics and the presidency

Introducing, "The Sports Moment"

The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop: ‘Somebody knows’

Introducing “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop”

Listen to the first episode of “Field Trip”: Yosemite National Park

Introducing “Field Trip”

A sneak peek from Lillian

BONUS | Happy Presidents’ Day! Or … not?

Joe Biden: Triumph, tragedy and the fate of the center

BONUS | What books about Trump say about America

BONUS | Pandemic, propaganda and the presidency

BONUS | When a VP pick changes history

BONUS | Binding up the nation's wounds

LIVE EVENT | 'Unprecedented Presidents' live from WBUR CitySpace

Donald Trump: Division and union

Barack Obama: The pursuit of identity

George W. Bush: Changing course

Bill Clinton: The good and the bad

George H. W. Bush: Restraint

Ronald Reagan: Myths and truths

Jimmy Carter: Keeping the faith

Gerald Ford: It's personal

Richard Nixon: Looking inward

Lyndon B. Johnson: Power

John F. Kennedy: We are all mortal

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Covert action

Harry S. Truman: Trying to make the right call

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Through Eleanor's eyes

Herbert Hoover: Dealing with disaster

Calvin Coolidge: A tale of two Coolidges

Warren G. Harding: Love and scandal

Woodrow Wilson: A complicated legacy

William Howard Taft: This chief, not that chief

Theodore Roosevelt: Exuberance

William McKinley: The modern campaign

Benjamin Harrison: The president as conservationist

Grover Cleveland: Tell the truth

Chester A. Arthur: Redemption

James A. Garfield: Shot down

Rutherford B. Hayes: The most contested election

Ulysses S. Grant: Lover, fighter, writer

Andrew Johnson: Stitching up a torn country

Abraham Lincoln: His hand and his pen

James Buchanan: The bachelor and the bloodshed

Franklin Pierce: Rolling off the tracks

Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents

Zachary Taylor: War heroes and conspiracy theory

James K. Polk: Getting it done

John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency

William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death

Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system

Andrew Jackson: The violence, the fight

John Quincy Adams: The trait that broke a presidency

James Monroe: The Forrest Gump of presidents

James Madison: Burning down the house

Thomas Jefferson: On food and freedom

John Adams: The case of the missing monument

George Washington: The man, the myth, the legend

Introduction: Welcome to Presidential