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All Episodes

The Last Best Hope? — 84 episodes

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The idea of America in British politics

2

New Series Trailer

3

Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 2

4

Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 1

5

Can federalism save American liberalism?

6

Hillary Rodham Clinton on how America can save itself

7

New Series Trailer: What’s Coming Next

8

Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 2

9

Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 1

10

How Will History Judge Joe Biden?

11

The Myth of the Frontier

12

Trump’s Second Term Foreign Policy in Historical Context

13

Journalism and Democracy: Lessons from Walter Lippmann

14

What just happened?

15

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 4: 2016

16

God and Trump: Evangelicals and Politics in today's America

17

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 3: 2008

18

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 2: 2000

19

Eugene V. Debs and America as the last, best hope for socialism?

20

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992

21

Dark Money: Can billionaires buy elections in America?

22

Rigged! Anxiety about election integrity in America

23

Presidents and the Press

24

The Black Founders, America and the Claim of Equality

25

Morning Again in America: The 1984 Election forty years on.

26

The strange death and curious rebirth of American cricket

27

How have presidential primaries shaped modern US politics?

28

How are Latino voters changing America?

29

American Fascism

30

The Last Best Hope? Season 11 Trailer

31

The Destruction of the Tea, 250 Years On.

32

The Kennedy Assassination and Conspiracy Culture

33

What is a “Colorblind Constitution"?

34

Is there a Paranoid Style in American Politics?

35

The Last Best Hope? Season 10

36

The Geordie South: How Northumbrians shaped Appalachia

37

A City on a Hill: The exceptional history of a powerful metaphor

38

America's role in Ukraine: a return to the last, best hope?

39

Was there a Culture War in nineteenth century America?

40

Are there lessons for Biden from the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson?

41

The House Divided Episode

42

The Second Amendment Episode

43

The Black Ships Episode

44

The Gettysburg Episode

45

The Polarisation Episode

46

The Propaganda Episode

47

The Memorialising Covid Episode

48

The Cotton Famine Episode

49

The Book of Mormon Episode

50

The Free World Episode

51

The Dust Bowl Episode

52

The Battle Hymn of the Republic Episode

53

The Nixon's the One Episode

54

The Billy Graham Episode

55

The 1776 Episode

56

The State's Rights Episode

57

The Government is the Solution Episode

58

The Robert E. Lee Episode

59

The 9/11 Episode

60

The Homecoming Episode

61

The Irish America Episode

62

The "Crisis" of the Middle Class Episode

63

The American Dilemma Episode

64

The What's Wrong With America Episode

65

The Royal America Episode

66

The Boycott Episode

67

The Swedish Nightingale Episode

68

The From Slavery to Snowdonia Episode

69

The Confederates who wanted to be Garibaldi Episode

70

The Reconstruction Episode

71

The My Whole Soul Episode

72

The Insurrection Episode

73

The Elected King Episode

74

The Uncle Tom Episode

75

The Better Angels Episode

76

The Viva La Revolución Episode

77

The Last Best Hope Shorts: Simone de Beauvoir

78

The Harmonious Episode

79

The Did the South Win the Civil War After All Episode

80

The Last Best Hope Episode

81

The new New Deal Episode

82

The "Don't Tread on Me" Episode

83

The Crisis Episode

84

The Federalism Episode