All Episodes

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776

Historian & Biographer Robert Caro

Jennifer Levasseur, Space History Curator

Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll, Jr., "Ghosts of Sicily"

Tad Devine, "How the Democrats Screwed Bernie"

Mike Leinbach, Former Space Shuttle Launch Director & Co-Author, "Bringing Columbia Home"

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

Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan, "Regime Change"

Mollie Hemingway, "Alito"

Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing" – Part Two

Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing" – Part One

Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory"

Gayle Feldman, "Nothing Random"

Lamar Alexander, "Education of a Senator"

Adam Szetela, "That Book Is Dangerous!"

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776

Historian & Biographer Robert Caro

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

Howard Mortman, "Extreme Mortman" Podcast Host

Carla Kaplan, "Troublemaker"

Jennifer Levasseur, Space History Curator

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

New York Times Photographer Doug Mills on Covering the White House

Lee Bollinger, "University: A Reckoning"

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

Steve Israel Explores Espionage and Science in The Einstein Conspiracy

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

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

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

Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story"

ABC News Journalist Jonathan Karl on "Retribution"

Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

Gary Walters, "White House Memories 1970-2007"

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

Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

Charles Murray, "Taking Religion Seriously"

Charles Ferguson, "Presidential Seclusion"

Eugene Kranz, Former NASA Flight Director & Author

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

Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Malone, "Born to Be Wired"

Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

Cornel West & Robert George, "Truth Matters"

Presidential Legacies

Dr. Robert Malone, "PsyWar"

Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

Mark Whitaker, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X"

Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-Founder

Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

Christopher Cox, "Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn"

John Kasich, "Heaven Help Us"

Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

Loretta Ross, "Calling In"

Meryl Gordon, "The Woman Who Knew Everyone"

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

Tara Roberts, "Written in the Waters"

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

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

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

Judge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance"

Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 2

Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 1

Sharon McMahon, "The Small and the Mighty"

Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

Larry Silverstein, "The Rising"

Malcolm Gladwell, "Revenge of the Tipping Point"

Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

Peggy Noonan, "A Certain Idea of America"

Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

Pamela Toler, "The Dragon from Chicago"

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

Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

Francis Collins, "The Road to Wisdom"

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

James Allen, Jr., "Not My Chair"

Peter Osnos, "LBJ and McNamara"

Steven Ford on Gerald Ford's Presidency

Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

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

George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

World War II Veterans Steven Ellis & Rolf Slen

Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

Tammy Bruce, "Fear Itself"

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

Riley Gaines, "Swimming Against the Current"

David Charter, "Royal Audience"

Frank Bruni, "The Age of Grievance"

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

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

World War II Veterans Steve Ellis & Rolf Slen

Betty Koed, "Scenes"

Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"

Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife"

Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

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

Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

David Charter, "Royal Audience"

Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"

Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"

Rob Henderson, "Troubled"

Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"

Katie Rogers, "American Woman"

Patti Davis, "Dear Mom and Dad"

Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

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

Sebastian Thrun, AI Pioneer & Tech Entrepreneur

Betty Koed, "Scenes"

FEED DROP: Martin Baron, "Collision of Power"

Cassandra Good, "First Family"

Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

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

Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for a Reason"

Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"

Daryl Davis, Musician & Author

Erik Larson, "In the Garden of Beasts"

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

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

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

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

Tom Cronin, "Imagining a Great Republic"

Elizabeth Papez on Chief Justices of the Supreme Court

Amy Zegart, "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms"

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

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

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

Cliff Sloan, "The Court at War"

Richard Striner, "Ike in Love and War"

Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

Jean Twenge, "Generations"

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

James Rosen, "Scalia"

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

Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"

Felix Salmon, "The Phoenix Economy"

Joshua Zeitz, "Lincoln's God"

Tania Branigan, "Red Memory"

Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"

Cassandra Good, "First Family"

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

Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise"

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

Daniel Weiss, "In That Time"

Ashlee Vance, "When the Heavens Went on Sale"

Cal Thomas, "A Watchman in the Night"

Jean Twenge, "Generations"

Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

Rebecca Roberts, "Untold Power"

David Bonior & Father Peter Daly on Aiding Ukrainian War Refugees

Joan Biskupic, "Nine Black Robes"

Neil King, Walking to New York City

Jeff Hobbs, "Children of the State"

Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women"

James Rosen, "Scalia"

Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book"

Matthew Connelly, "The Declassification Engine"

Alex Prud'homme, "Dinner with the President"

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

Tracy Kidder, "Rough Sleepers"

Philip K. Howard, "Not Accountable"

Jim Popkin, "Code Name Blue Wren"

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

Joel Richard Paul, "Indivisible"

John Agresto, "The Death of Learning"

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

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

Rick Wartzman "Still Broke"

Glory Liu "Adam Smith's America"

Chris Arnade, "Dignity"

Douglas Brinkley "Silent Spring Revolution"

John Farrell "Ted Kennedy: A Life"

Elliott Morris, "Strength in Numbers"

Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide"

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

Margaret Burnham, "By Hands Now Known"

John Agresto, "The Death of Learning"

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

Alan Maimon, "Twilight in Hazard"

Hal Brands, "Danger Zone"

Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins, "Salmon Wars"

C-SPAN in the Classroom Trailer: Season 2

The Weekly Podcast: At The Movies With Boris Johnson

Booknotes + Beverley Eddy, "Ritchie Boy Secrets"

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

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

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

Kathy Kleiman, "Proving Ground"

Michael Smith & Jonathan Franklin, "Cabin Fever"

Elliott Morris, "Strength in Numbers"

Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Facemaker"

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

Presidential Recordings Trailer: Season 2 President Richard Nixon

Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"

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

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

Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground"

Booknotes+ Mark Vonnegut, "The Heart of Caring"

Louisa Lim, "Indelible City"

Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide"

Darlene Superville, "Jill"

David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

Matthew Continetti, "The Right"

Mary Sarotte, "Not One Inch"

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

Michael Meyer, "Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet"

Benjamin Barton, "The Credentialed Court"

Andrew Rice, "The Year That Broke America"

Renee Knake Jefferson, “Shortlisted”

Dana Rubin, Speaking While Female Speech Bank

V. P. Franklin, "The Young Crusaders"

Ryan Walters, "The Jazz Age President"

Erin Thompson, "Smashing Statues"

Amy Zegart, "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms"

Ben Raines, "The Last Slave Ship"

Robert Sutton, "Nazis on the Potomac"

NASA's DART Mission & James Webb Space Telescope

Jorge Contreras, "The Genome Defense"

Presidential Recordings Ep. 2 - Creation of the Warren Commission

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

Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe"

Jim Byron, President & CEO of the Nixon Foundation

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

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

Mayukh Sen, "Taste Makers"

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

Beth Levison & Jerry Risius, "Storm Lake"

Howard Husock, "The Poor Side of Town"

LaDoris Cordell, "Her Honor"

David Wessel, "Only the Rich Can Play"

Martin Dugard "Taking Paris"

Peter Canellos, "The Great Dissenter"

Lawrence Wright "The Plague Year"

Jason Riley, "Maverick"

Jessica DuLong, "Saved at the Seawall"

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

Lectures in History: Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War

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

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

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

Gary Ginsberg, "First Friends"

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

Jessica DuLong, "Saved at the Seawall"

Don Ritchie, Senate Historian Emeritus

Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

Edward Slingerland, Author, "Drunk"

John Tamny, Author, "When Politicians Panicked"

Annette Gordon-Reed, Author, "On Juneteenth"

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

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

Greg Francis, Author, "Just Harvest"

Neil King, Walking to New York City

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Mysteries of the Universe

Lawrence Roberts, Author of "Mayday 1971"

Susan Page, Author, "Madame Speaker"

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

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

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

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

The History Chicks

George Weigel, Author, "Not Forgotten"

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

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

Peniel Joseph, Professor of History, University of Texas

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

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

Lawrence Roberts, Author of "Mayday 1971"

Elena Conis, Author of "Vaccine Nation"

Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Helen Andrews, Author, "Boomers"

Nic Novicki, Founder and Director, Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Jake Wood, Author of "Once a Warrior"

New Members of Congress

Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway, Historians on contentious presidential transitions

Elaine Weiss, Author "The Woman's Hour"

James Taing, Documentary Filmmaker

Sarah Brayne, Author "Predict and Surveil"

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

Matthew Weil and Laura Hautala on Election Security

Kathleen Belew and Jillian Melchior on Proud Boys and Antifa

Nic Novicki, Founder and Director, Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

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

Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

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

Harold Holzer, Author and Historian, Part Two

Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

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

Harold Holzer, Author and Historian

Katherine Gehl, Founder, Institute for Political Innovation

Elaine Weiss, Author "The Woman's Hour"

Reihan Salam, President, Manhattan Institute

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

Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia)

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

Erin Geiger Smith, Voting in America

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

Elena Conis, "Vaccine Nation"

Peniel Joseph, Professor of History, University of Texas

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

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

Malcom Gladwell, "Talking to Strangers"

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

Susannah Cahalan, Journalist, "The Great Pretender"

Craig Fehrman, Journalist, "Author in Chief"

Lual Mayen, South Sudanese Refugee

Chris Arnade, Photojournalist

James Wallner, Historian and Professor at American University

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

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

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

Steve Inskeep, Author of "Imperfect Union"

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

Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief of RealClearPolitics on Super Tuesday

Notable Speakers of the House with Matthew Green

Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

Q&A with Lual Mayen

Kathryn Sullivan, "Handprints on Hubble"

Iowa Caucuses History

History of the New Hampshire Primary

History of Impeachment in the Senate

Daniel Weiss, "In That Time"

Dr. Azra Raza, "The First Cell"

Holly Jackson, "American Radicals"

Presidential Press Coverage

Presidential Nominating Process

A Reporter's View of Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq

Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"

Supreme Court Chief Justices

Chris Arnade, "Dignity"

Alan Kraut

Jeff Guinn, "The Vagabonds"

History of Tariffs

James Banner, "Presidential Misconduct"

Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James

Malcolm Gladwell, "Talking to Strangers"

Margaret O'Mara, "The Code"

Q&A

David McCullough

David Maraniss

Harold Holzer and Amity Shlaes

David Brooks

Q&A with Senate Youth Program

Susan Page

Doug Brinkley

Joan Buskupic

Robert Caro

Matthew Hoh

Amy Greenberg

Eileen Rivers

Elizabeth Samet

Monica Norton

Jackie Speier

Joanne Freeman

Jeffrey Engel

Grace Kennan Warnecke

Amy Wax

Michio Kaku

Amy Chua

Kate Bowler

Doug Mills

Caitriona Perry

Daryl Davis

Allison Stanger

Manal Al-Sharif

Pat Buchanan

Q&A with Mark Cheathem

Q&A with Heather McGhee

Q&A with Benjamin Ginsberg

Q&A with Robert Strauss

Q&A with Candice Millard

Q&A with Corey Pegues

Q&A with Michael Ramirez

Q&A with Edmund Morris

Q&A with Robert Dallek

Q&A with Amity Shlaes

Q&A with John Paul Stevens

Q&A with John Doar

Q&A with William Seale