All Episodes
The Last Best Hope? — 87 episodes
The Battle over the 250th Anniversary
Why America Doesn't Love Soccer (Except When It Does)
1776 and the break up of the United States
The idea of America in British politics
New Series Trailer
Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 2
Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 1
Can federalism save American liberalism?
Hillary Rodham Clinton on how America can save itself
New Series Trailer: What’s Coming Next
Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 2
Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 1
How Will History Judge Joe Biden?
The Myth of the Frontier
Trump’s Second Term Foreign Policy in Historical Context
Journalism and Democracy: Lessons from Walter Lippmann
What just happened?
The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 4: 2016
God and Trump: Evangelicals and Politics in today's America
The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 3: 2008
The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 2: 2000
Eugene V. Debs and America as the last, best hope for socialism?
The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992
Dark Money: Can billionaires buy elections in America?
Rigged! Anxiety about election integrity in America
Presidents and the Press
The Black Founders, America and the Claim of Equality
Morning Again in America: The 1984 Election forty years on.
The strange death and curious rebirth of American cricket
How have presidential primaries shaped modern US politics?
How are Latino voters changing America?
American Fascism
The Last Best Hope? Season 11 Trailer
The Destruction of the Tea, 250 Years On.
The Kennedy Assassination and Conspiracy Culture
What is a “Colorblind Constitution"?
Is there a Paranoid Style in American Politics?
The Last Best Hope? Season 10
The Geordie South: How Northumbrians shaped Appalachia
A City on a Hill: The exceptional history of a powerful metaphor
America's role in Ukraine: a return to the last, best hope?
Was there a Culture War in nineteenth century America?
Are there lessons for Biden from the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson?
The House Divided Episode
The Second Amendment Episode
The Black Ships Episode
The Gettysburg Episode
The Polarisation Episode
The Propaganda Episode
The Memorialising Covid Episode
The Cotton Famine Episode
The Book of Mormon Episode
The Free World Episode
The Dust Bowl Episode
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Episode
The Nixon's the One Episode
The Billy Graham Episode
The 1776 Episode
The State's Rights Episode
The Government is the Solution Episode
The Robert E. Lee Episode
The 9/11 Episode
The Homecoming Episode
The Irish America Episode
The "Crisis" of the Middle Class Episode
The American Dilemma Episode
The What's Wrong With America Episode
The Royal America Episode
The Boycott Episode
The Swedish Nightingale Episode
The From Slavery to Snowdonia Episode
The Confederates who wanted to be Garibaldi Episode
The Reconstruction Episode
The My Whole Soul Episode
The Insurrection Episode
The Elected King Episode
The Uncle Tom Episode
The Better Angels Episode
The Viva La Revolución Episode
The Last Best Hope Shorts: Simone de Beauvoir
The Harmonious Episode
The Did the South Win the Civil War After All Episode
The Last Best Hope Episode
The new New Deal Episode
The "Don't Tread on Me" Episode
The Crisis Episode
The Federalism Episode