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1

David McKean and M. Todd Bennett, "The Flag Was Still There"

2

Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan, "Regime Change"

3

Mollie Hemingway, "Alito"

4

Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing" – Part Two

5

Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing" – Part One

6

Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory"

7

Gayle Feldman, "Nothing Random"

8

Lamar Alexander, "Education of a Senator"

9

Adam Szetela, "That Book Is Dangerous!"

10

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776

11

Historian & Biographer Robert Caro

12

Jean Becker & Tom Collamore, "Don't Tell the President"

13

Howard Mortman, "Extreme Mortman" Podcast Host

14

Carla Kaplan, "Troublemaker"

15

Jennifer Levasseur, Space History Curator

16

Lloyd Blankfein Discusses “Streetwise,” Wall Street Power, and the 2008 Financial Crisis

17

New York Times Photographer Doug Mills on Covering the White House

18

Lee Bollinger, "University: A Reckoning"

19

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), "Young Man in a Hurry"

20

Steve Israel Explores Espionage and Science in The Einstein Conspiracy

21

Wil Haygood Explores Race, Conflict, and the Vietnam War in The War Within a War

22

Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

23

Teasel Muir-Harmony, History of the U.S. Space Program

24

Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story"

25

ABC News Journalist Jonathan Karl on "Retribution"

26

Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

27

Gary Walters, "White House Memories 1970-2007"

28

America250 Chair Rosie Rios on Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence

29

Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

30

Charles Murray, "Taking Religion Seriously"

31

Charles Ferguson, "Presidential Seclusion"

32

Eugene Kranz, Former NASA Flight Director & Author

33

Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

34

Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

35

Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership

36

Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

37

Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

38

Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood

39

Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin

40

FEED DROP BOOKNOTES+: Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

41

Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"

42

Every Screen on the Planet: Emily Baker-White on the Future of Technology and Society

43

Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

44

Ann Butler, "Wife, Mother, Spy" - Women, Espionage, and the CIA

45

John Malone, "Born to Be Wired"

46

Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

47

Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

48

Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

49

Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

50

Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

51

Cornel West & Robert George, "Truth Matters"

52

Presidential Legacies

53

Dr. Robert Malone, "PsyWar"

54

Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

55

Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

56

Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

57

Mark Whitaker, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X"

58

Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-Founder

59

Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

60

Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

61

Christopher Cox, "Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn"

62

John Kasich, "Heaven Help Us"

63

Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

64

Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

65

Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

66

Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

67

Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

68

Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

69

Loretta Ross, "Calling In"

70

Meryl Gordon, "The Woman Who Knew Everyone"

71

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), "All the President's Money"

72

Tara Roberts, "Written in the Waters"

73

Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 2

74

Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 1

75

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

76

Judge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance"

77

Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 2

78

Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 1

79

Sharon McMahon, "The Small and the Mighty"

80

Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

81

Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

82

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

83

Larry Silverstein, "The Rising"

84

Malcolm Gladwell, "Revenge of the Tipping Point"

85

Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

86

Peggy Noonan, "A Certain Idea of America"

87

Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

88

Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

89

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

90

Pamela Toler, "The Dragon from Chicago"

91

John Mackey, "The Whole Story" & Steven Pinker, "Rationality"

92

Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

93

Francis Collins, "The Road to Wisdom"

94

Michael & Robert Meeropol, Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg on the Rosenberg Spy Case

95

James Allen, Jr., "Not My Chair"

96

Peter Osnos, "LBJ and McNamara"

97

Steven Ford on Gerald Ford's Presidency

98

Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

99

Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

100

George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

101

World War II Veterans Steven Ellis & Rolf Slen

102

Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

103

Tammy Bruce, "Fear Itself"

104

J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"

105

Riley Gaines, "Swimming Against the Current"

106

David Charter, "Royal Audience"

107

Frank Bruni, "The Age of Grievance"

108

Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

109

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

110

George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

111

World War II Veterans Steve Ellis & Rolf Slen

112

Betty Koed, "Scenes"

113

Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"

114

Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife"

115

Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

116

Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

117

Zachary Treitz & Christian Hansen, "American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders"

118

Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

119

David Charter, "Royal Audience"

120

Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"

121

Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"

122

Rob Henderson, "Troubled"

123

Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"

124

Katie Rogers, "American Woman"

125

Patti Davis, "Dear Mom and Dad"

126

Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

127

Charles Scribner III, "Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing"

128

Sebastian Thrun, AI Pioneer & Tech Entrepreneur

129

Betty Koed, "Scenes"

130

FEED DROP: Martin Baron, "Collision of Power"

131

Cassandra Good, "First Family"

132

Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

133

BONUS EPISODE: Conversation w/ Q&A host Peter Slen

134

Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for a Reason"

135

Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"

136

Daryl Davis, Musician & Author

137

Erik Larson, "In the Garden of Beasts"

138

Jesse Holland, "The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House"

139

Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence.”

140

Rosemary Stevens, "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau"

141

Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment"

142

Tom Cronin, "Imagining a Great Republic"

143

Elizabeth Papez on Chief Justices of the Supreme Court

144

Amy Zegart, "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms"

145

Michael Green, "The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership"

146

Randall Eliason, On Senator Bob Menendez's First Political Corruption Trial

147

FEED DROP: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay "The Federalist Papers"

148

Cliff Sloan, "The Court at War"

149

Richard Striner, "Ike in Love and War"

150

Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

151

Jean Twenge, "Generations"

152

Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.

153

James Rosen, "Scalia"

154

Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848

155

Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"

156

Felix Salmon, "The Phoenix Economy"

157

Joshua Zeitz, "Lincoln's God"

158

Tania Branigan, "Red Memory"

159

Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"

160

Cassandra Good, "First Family"

161

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. on the Murder of Emmett Till and the Search for Justice

162

Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise"

163

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), "Lost and Broken"

164

Daniel Weiss, "In That Time"

165

Ashlee Vance, "When the Heavens Went on Sale"

166

Cal Thomas, "A Watchman in the Night"

167

Jean Twenge, "Generations"

168

Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

169

Rebecca Roberts, "Untold Power"

170

David Bonior & Father Peter Daly on Aiding Ukrainian War Refugees

171

Joan Biskupic, "Nine Black Robes"

172

Neil King, Walking to New York City

173

Jeff Hobbs, "Children of the State"

174

Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women"

175

James Rosen, "Scalia"

176

Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book"

177

Matthew Connelly, "The Declassification Engine"

178

Alex Prud'homme, "Dinner with the President"

179

Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848

180

Tracy Kidder, "Rough Sleepers"

181

Philip K. Howard, "Not Accountable"

182

Jim Popkin, "Code Name Blue Wren"

183

Author Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. on the Murder of Emmett Till and the Search for Justice

184

Joel Richard Paul, "Indivisible"

185

John Agresto, "The Death of Learning"

186

Javier Zamora on Migrating from El Salvador to the United States as a Nine-Year-Old

187

Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.

188

Rick Wartzman "Still Broke"

189

Glory Liu "Adam Smith's America"

190

Chris Arnade, "Dignity"

191

Douglas Brinkley "Silent Spring Revolution"

192

John Farrell "Ted Kennedy: A Life"

193

Elliott Morris, "Strength in Numbers"

194

Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide"

195

William Doyle on the Life and Legislative Achievements of U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah

196

Margaret Burnham, "By Hands Now Known"

197

John Agresto, "The Death of Learning"

198

Javier Zamora on Migrating from El Salvador to the United States as a Nine-Year-Old

199

Alan Maimon, "Twilight in Hazard"

200

Hal Brands, "Danger Zone"

201

Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins, "Salmon Wars"

202

C-SPAN in the Classroom Trailer: Season 2

203

The Weekly Podcast: At The Movies With Boris Johnson

204

Booknotes + Beverley Eddy, "Ritchie Boy Secrets"

205

Presidential Recordings: All Politics Are Local: The Pentagon Papers & Conversations with Members of Congress

206

After Words: Kellyanne Conway, "Here's the Deal"

207

After Words: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), "A Way Out of No Way"

208

Kathy Kleiman, "Proving Ground"

209

Michael Smith & Jonathan Franklin, "Cabin Fever"

210

Elliott Morris, "Strength in Numbers"

211

Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Facemaker"

212

Presidential Recordings: Ep. 1 Bad Moon Rising - Watergate Calls from April 1973 Part 1

213

Presidential Recordings Trailer: Season 2 President Richard Nixon

214

Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"

215

Author John Bainbridge, Jr., on the Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

216

Janna Levin on Black Holes/Sagittarius A* & Jessica Whiteside on the Mars Perseverance Rover

217

Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground"

218

Booknotes+ Mark Vonnegut, "The Heart of Caring"

219

Louisa Lim, "Indelible City"

220

Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide"

221

Darlene Superville, "Jill"

222

David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

223

Matthew Continetti, "The Right"

224

Mary Sarotte, "Not One Inch"

225

Kostya Kennedy, "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson"

226

Michael Meyer, "Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet"

227

Benjamin Barton, "The Credentialed Court"

228

Andrew Rice, "The Year That Broke America"

229

Renee Knake Jefferson, “Shortlisted”

230

Dana Rubin, Speaking While Female Speech Bank

231

V. P. Franklin, "The Young Crusaders"

232

Ryan Walters, "The Jazz Age President"

233

Erin Thompson, "Smashing Statues"

234

Amy Zegart, "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms"

235

Ben Raines, "The Last Slave Ship"

236

Robert Sutton, "Nazis on the Potomac"

237

NASA's DART Mission & James Webb Space Telescope

238

Jorge Contreras, "The Genome Defense"

239

Presidential Recordings Ep. 2 - Creation of the Warren Commission

240

Presidential Recordings Ep. 1 - What are The LBJ Tapes? with Marc Selverstone of The Miller Center at the University of Virginia

241

Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe"

242

Jim Byron, President & CEO of the Nixon Foundation

243

J.B. MacKinnon, "The Day the World Stops Shopping"

244

About Books: Former Rep. Steve Israel D-NY on Opening a New Bookstore

245

Mayukh Sen, "Taste Makers"

246

Randy Barnett & Evan Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment

247

Beth Levison & Jerry Risius, "Storm Lake"

248

Howard Husock, "The Poor Side of Town"

249

LaDoris Cordell, "Her Honor"

250

David Wessel, "Only the Rich Can Play"

251

Martin Dugard "Taking Paris"

252

Peter Canellos, "The Great Dissenter"

253

Lawrence Wright "The Plague Year"

254

Jason Riley, "Maverick"

255

Jessica DuLong, "Saved at the Seawall"

256

January 6th: Views from the House Reps. Markwayne Mullin, Jason Crow and Tom Malinowski

257

Lectures in History: Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War

258

After Words w/ Alex Marlow, "Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption"

259

Booknotes+ w/ Harlow Giles Unger: "Thomas Paine, Forgotten Hero of the American Revolution"

260

Booknotes+ w/ Eleanor Herman: "Sex with Presidents"

261

Gary Ginsberg, "First Friends"

262

Michelle Singletary, "What to Do with Your Money When Crisis Hits"

263

Jessica DuLong, "Saved at the Seawall"

264

Don Ritchie, Senate Historian Emeritus

265

Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

266

Edward Slingerland, Author, "Drunk"

267

John Tamny, Author, "When Politicians Panicked"

268

Annette Gordon-Reed, Author, "On Juneteenth"

269

Peter Osnos, Author, "An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen"

270

Rick Beyer, Author, "The Ghost Army of World War II"

271

Greg Francis, Author, "Just Harvest"

272

Neil King, Walking to New York City

273

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Mysteries of the Universe

274

Lawrence Roberts, Author of "Mayday 1971"

275

Susan Page, Author, "Madame Speaker"

276

Karen Tumulty, Author, "The Triumph of Nancy Reagan"

277

Julia Sweig, Author, "Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight"

278

Frederick Hess & Pedro Noguera, "A Search for Common Ground"

279

Elizabeth Becker, Author, "You Don't Belong Here"

280

The History Chicks

281

George Weigel, Author, "Not Forgotten"

282

Jayme Lemke, Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center's Hayek Program

283

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Author, "She Came to Slay"

284

Peniel Joseph, Professor of History, University of Texas

285

Vice President Kamala Harris's Mother and History of Indian Americans

286

Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ Reporter, & Max Abrahms, Northeastern University political science professor

287

Lawrence Roberts, Author of "Mayday 1971"

288

Elena Conis, Author of "Vaccine Nation"

289

Presidential Inaugural Addresses

290

Helen Andrews, Author, "Boomers"

291

Nic Novicki, Founder and Director, Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

292

Jake Wood, Author of "Once a Warrior"

293

New Members of Congress

294

Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway, Historians on contentious presidential transitions

295

Elaine Weiss, Author "The Woman's Hour"

296

James Taing, Documentary Filmmaker

297

Sarah Brayne, Author "Predict and Surveil"

298

David Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20th Anniversary of Bush v. Gore SCOTUS Case

299

Matthew Weil and Laura Hautala on Election Security

300

Kathleen Belew and Jillian Melchior on Proud Boys and Antifa

301

Nic Novicki, Founder and Director, Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

302

Isabel Wilkerson, Author, 'Caste: The Origin of our Discontent'

303

Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

304

Eric Jay Dolin, Author, "A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes"

305

Harold Holzer, Author and Historian, Part Two

306

Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

307

Pamela Constable, Former Bureau Chief of Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Washington Post

308

Harold Holzer, Author and Historian

309

Katherine Gehl, Founder, Institute for Political Innovation

310

Elaine Weiss, Author "The Woman's Hour"

311

Reihan Salam, President, Manhattan Institute

312

Chris Wallace, Author of "Countdown 1945" and Fox News Host

313

Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia)

314

John Burtka, Executive Director and Acting Editor, The American Conservative

315

Erin Geiger Smith, Voting in America

316

Siddhartha Mukherjee, U.S. Response to Covid-19

317

Elena Conis, "Vaccine Nation"

318

Peniel Joseph, Professor of History, University of Texas

319

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition”

320

Peggy Wallace Kennedy, "The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation"

321

Malcom Gladwell, "Talking to Strangers"

322

Jeff Guinn, "The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip"

323

Susannah Cahalan, Journalist, "The Great Pretender"

324

Craig Fehrman, Journalist, "Author in Chief"

325

Lual Mayen, South Sudanese Refugee

326

Chris Arnade, Photojournalist

327

James Wallner, Historian and Professor at American University

328

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

329

Amity Shlaes, Author and Economic Historian on U.S. Response to Crises

330

Christian McMillen, Author of "Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction"

331

Steve Inskeep, Author of "Imperfect Union"

332

Peggy Wallace Kennedy, Author of "The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter's Journey to Reconciliation"

333

Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief of RealClearPolitics on Super Tuesday

334

Notable Speakers of the House with Matthew Green

335

Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

336

Q&A with Lual Mayen

337

Kathryn Sullivan, "Handprints on Hubble"

338

Iowa Caucuses History

339

History of the New Hampshire Primary

340

History of Impeachment in the Senate

341

Daniel Weiss, "In That Time"

342

Dr. Azra Raza, "The First Cell"

343

Holly Jackson, "American Radicals"

344

Presidential Press Coverage

345

Presidential Nominating Process

346

A Reporter's View of Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq

347

Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"

348

Supreme Court Chief Justices

349

Chris Arnade, "Dignity"

350

Alan Kraut

351

Jeff Guinn, "The Vagabonds"

352

History of Tariffs

353

James Banner, "Presidential Misconduct"

354

Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James

355

Malcolm Gladwell, "Talking to Strangers"

356

Margaret O'Mara, "The Code"

357

Q&A

358

David McCullough

359

David Maraniss

360

Harold Holzer and Amity Shlaes

361

David Brooks

362

Q&A with Senate Youth Program

363

Susan Page

364

Doug Brinkley

365

Joan Buskupic

366

Robert Caro

367

Matthew Hoh

368

Amy Greenberg

369

Eileen Rivers

370

Elizabeth Samet

371

Monica Norton

372

Jackie Speier

373

Joanne Freeman

374

Jeffrey Engel

375

Grace Kennan Warnecke

376

Amy Wax

377

Michio Kaku

378

Amy Chua

379

Kate Bowler

380

Doug Mills

381

Caitriona Perry

382

Daryl Davis

383

Allison Stanger

384

Manal Al-Sharif

385

Pat Buchanan

386

Q&A with Mark Cheathem

387

Q&A with Heather McGhee

388

Q&A with Benjamin Ginsberg

389

Q&A with Robert Strauss

390

Q&A with Candice Millard

391

Q&A with Corey Pegues

392

Q&A with Michael Ramirez

393

Q&A with Edmund Morris

394

Q&A with Robert Dallek

395

Q&A with Amity Shlaes

396

Q&A with John Paul Stevens

397

Q&A with John Doar

398

Q&A with William Seale