• Intro to "Fall of USSR" Podcast and Classified Documents Discussion (Wed, Feb 01, 2023)
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• A Sense of Humor as a Weapon - Vice President Thomas Marshall (Fri, Jan 27, 2023)
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• "Wrong Forever on the Throne!" - William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic Party in His Later Years (Wed, Jan 18, 2023)
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• Speaker Election of 1855, 20th Amendment and a Show Update (Sun, Jan 08, 2023)
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• We Need to Talk. About the 72nd Congress. (Mon, Dec 26, 2022)
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• Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge (Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
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• Inflation vs. Space: How The Cost of Things Limited the Space Program (Tue, Dec 20, 2022)
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• Leap to Freedom: Hans Konrad Schumann's Story (Tue, Dec 13, 2022)
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• Drinking With FDR (Mon, Dec 12, 2022)
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• The Mystery of the Black Bands on the Goalposts? and Other Stories (Mon, Dec 05, 2022)
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• Soccer and Repression: The 1978 World Cup in Argentina (Fri, Dec 02, 2022)
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• Close Encounters of the Congress Kind: Times When the House Membership was Close Between the Parties (Mon, Nov 28, 2022)
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• The Youth Vote: John Lennon's Dream, Nixon's Nightmare (Mon, Nov 21, 2022)
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• One Vote Grant Didn't Want (Fri, Nov 18, 2022)
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• You Can't Always Get What You Want? The 2022 Midterm Result, and Listener Questions (Sat, Nov 12, 2022)
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• Once Upon a Time in Westminster (Sun, Nov 06, 2022)
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• Something Happened: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Primary Run (Mon, Oct 31, 2022)
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• Introducing: They Did That (Thu, Oct 27, 2022)
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• Lonely Midterm, 1970 (Mon, Oct 17, 2022)
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• Nineteen Seventies Ephemera (Sun, Oct 02, 2022)
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• Savings and Loan Crisis (Tue, Sep 27, 2022)
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• Midterms: They Don't Always Work Out Badly for Presidents (But Mostly They Do) (Fri, Sep 23, 2022)
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• Whiskey, Ice and Federal-State Powers (Sun, Sep 18, 2022)
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• That Time when John. F. Kennedy Ran for Vice President (Sun, Sep 04, 2022)
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• Truman's Vice: Alben Barkley and the Creation of the "Veep" (Wed, Aug 31, 2022)
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• The Force that Could Not Be Stopped (Mon, Aug 29, 2022)
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• And to the Republic: Thoughts about Everything Going on in Politics (Sat, Aug 27, 2022)
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• Now That's The Right Way to Lose an Election (Sun, Aug 21, 2022)
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• Benevolent Policeman? The History of Congressional Committees (Mon, Aug 15, 2022)
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• "We Gotta Go and Never Stop Going!" The Modern American Year of 1948 (Sun, Aug 07, 2022)
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• Smiling Like He Meant It: Vice President Schuyler Colfax (Thu, Aug 04, 2022)
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• Martyr or Villain?: Thomas A. Hendricks (Mon, Aug 01, 2022)
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• My History Can Beat Up Your Politics on C-SPAN - July 30th, 9:15AM - also midterms and inflation. (Wed, Jul 27, 2022)
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• Wills On Duty: The Story of Watergate Security Guard Frank Wills (Sun, Jul 24, 2022)
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• A History of Student Loans and Higher Ed Financing in the U.S. (Sun, Jul 17, 2022)
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• A Midterm Election About Nothing, and Other Stories (Sun, Jul 10, 2022)
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• George B. McClellan Junior Would Like a Word (Mon, Jul 04, 2022)
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• About That War of 1812 (Mon, Jun 27, 2022)
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• Presenting: History Is Us (Wed, Jun 22, 2022)
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• Nixon Versus Plywood, and Other Presidential Inflation Stories (Mon, Jun 20, 2022)
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• Introducing: History Daily Podcast (Story of D.B. Cooper / The Treaty of Ghent Ending the War of 1812) (Tue, Jun 14, 2022)
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• The Underrated Patrick Henry (Mon, Jun 13, 2022)
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• Lincoln Over Easy - A Look at a President's Image (Sun, Jun 12, 2022)
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• So, There Was No Smoke-Filled Room After All? And Other Presidential Election Stories. (Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
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• Infringe: The History of a Word and The Gun Debate (Mon, Jun 06, 2022)
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• The Zinger That Saved America: Daniel Webster's Reply to Hayne (Thu, Jun 02, 2022)
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• What's Going on Across the Pond w/ Steve Byrne of What Am Politics Podcast (Wed, Jun 01, 2022)
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• Free Speech is Easy, and Hard w/ Lynn Greenky of Syracuse University School of Law (Sun, May 22, 2022)
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• Nine Kings, One Room: Introducing the Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast (Wed, May 18, 2022)
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• Stare Decisis and Spider Man, and Other Stories (Mon, May 16, 2022)
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• History of a History: Ken Burn's "The Civil War" (Mon, May 09, 2022)
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• Like the Visions of a Fever: America in Pre-War 1941 (Mon, Apr 25, 2022)
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• Politics and Margarine (Fri, Apr 22, 2022)
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• In The Arena - Adlai Stevenson and Other Losing Candidates w/ Peter Shea (Mon, Apr 18, 2022)
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• Didn't Mean to Make a Country: First Congress, 1774 (Mon, Apr 11, 2022)
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• The Man Who Saved Biden, And Other Stories (Wed, Apr 06, 2022)
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• Ukraine and History w/ Ben Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State and "The Road to Now Podcast" (Wed, Mar 30, 2022)
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• Millions Fall: The Destruction of Trees During The Civil War / Taft and Television (Sun, Mar 27, 2022)
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• The War in the Former Yugoslavia (Bosnian War) and the Dayton Accords, w/ Alex Hastie of "Ohio v. The World" Podcast (Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
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• The Anguish of Calvin Coolidge ( w/ David Priess ) (Mon, Mar 07, 2022)
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• Abyssinia: The Italian-Ethiopian War and its Consequences (Tue, Mar 01, 2022)
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• Congressional Stock Trading and The Pan-Electric Scandal (Mon, Feb 21, 2022)
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• I'll Take Presidents and Canadian Prime Ministers For $1000. (Thu, Feb 17, 2022)
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• Ramsay MacDonald / What Happened to the Gold Standard? (Mon, Feb 14, 2022)
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• The "Send a Dime" Chain Letters of 1935 and The Lost Subway System (Mon, Feb 07, 2022)
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• Listener Questions: Jan 6th, Gingrich, Inflation, Free Speech, Medical Speech, Rogan Controversy, Size of The House (Wed, Feb 02, 2022)
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• Judge Lincoln, Orval Faubus and Bill Clinton, Millard Fillmore (Sun, Jan 30, 2022)
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• The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and Other Disasters (Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
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• The Iranian Side of Iran Contra, Gladstone and Disraeli, Cranks at the White House, Unknown Facts About Presidents (Sun, Jan 23, 2022)
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• The History Behind a Holiday: Martin Luther King Day (Mon, Jan 17, 2022)
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• Drug Legalization Before it Was Cool: The Story of Kurt Schmoke (Mon, Jan 10, 2022)
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• Disorder at the Capitol in History (Wed, Jan 05, 2022)
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• The Forgotten Forage War of 1777: Realities of the Revolution (Mon, Jan 03, 2022)
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• Tricornes and Tomahawks - Realities of the Revolution Part I (Mon, Dec 27, 2021)
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• About Those Hessians: Realities of the Revolution (Fri, Dec 24, 2021)
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• Shooting Behind Trees? Realities of The Revolution (Mon, Dec 20, 2021)
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• What Would Cicero Say? Interview with Professor Rob Goodman of Ryerson University on Speech Issues, Modern and Ancient (Fri, Dec 17, 2021)
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• Lincoln on Infrastructure (Mon, Dec 13, 2021)
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• Harris and the Vice Presidency in a Historical Context (Sat, Dec 11, 2021)
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• The 1890's Part IV: Imperialism Just Happened (Mon, Dec 06, 2021)
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• Near-President Bob Dole? Biden v. Dukakis, Gary Hart Tries to Save America, For Real and Other Fables of the 1988 Election (Sun, Dec 05, 2021)
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• The 1890's Part III: No, Not That Winston Churchill (Mon, Nov 29, 2021)
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• The 1890's Part II: Tin Man (Mon, Nov 22, 2021)
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• The 1890's: Part I : Mauve Decade (Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
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• Inflation Gardens and Other Stories (Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
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• News Stories From 1921 That Matter Today - with Jon Blackwell (Mon, Nov 01, 2021)
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• Introducing "Smoke Screen: The Sellout" (Tue, Oct 26, 2021)
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• Ashamed in the Day of Judgment - Resistance to Jackson Indian Removal Policy in its Time (Mon, Oct 25, 2021)
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• The Miserable Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President (Mon, Oct 18, 2021)
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• The Anti-Masonic Party and Conspiracy Theory Politics Old & New (Mon, Oct 11, 2021)
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• Joe Manchins of History, Clinton's 50-50 Senate, and Harold Wilson's 1970's Virtual School (Mon, Oct 04, 2021)
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• Biden, Crime Bill, How and Why He Was Elected and More: Interview w/ The Political Darkside Podcast (Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
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• Grover Cleveland Cake and Other Stories (Mon, Sep 20, 2021)
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• Andrew Carnegie Questions (Tue, Sep 14, 2021)
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• Introducing "9/12" from Wondery (Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
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• Snack, Dessert, Dinner, Supper: The Paris Peace Accords (Mon, Sep 06, 2021)
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• Mike Duncan on The Marquis de Lafayette and His Two Worlds (Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
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• Saigon Comparisons: The Events of April 29th and 30th 1975 and Today (Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
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• Playing Cards With the Signers of The Declaration w/ Jason Petri (Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
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• Charles Dawes: The Anti-Filibustering Musician Vice-President (Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
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• Extras from the Airline Deregulation Episode (Tue, Aug 03, 2021)
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• Friendly Skies? - The Story of Airline Deregulation (Mon, Aug 02, 2021)
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• Richard Bey of "The Richard Bey Show" on Cancel Culture, Iraq War, The Alamo and The Truth - 15th Anniversary Episode Part II (Wed, Jul 28, 2021)
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• 15th Anniversary Show Part I: Speaking w/ Listeners, Reviewing Clips of Past Episodes - James Monroe and Lyndon Johnson and More (Sun, Jul 25, 2021)
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• Afghanistan - The Soviet War (Fri, Jul 16, 2021)
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• Vaccines Then and Now (Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
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• What You May Not Know About Lexington and Concord (Tue, Jul 13, 2021)
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• Dennis Kucinich on Public Service, Public Power and His Book - "The Division of Light and Power' (Mon, Jul 12, 2021)
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• The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of the Signers of The Declaration of Independence (Sun, Jul 04, 2021)
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• 1866 Mechanics Institute Attack (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
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• D.C. Representation: A Love Story (Mon, Jun 14, 2021)
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• Hannibal Hamlin Stood Up: A Look At an Overlooked Vice President (Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
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• Terrible Tuesday 1987 (The Ark of Commerce, Part 6b) (Wed, Jun 02, 2021)
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• On The Lincoln Train: The 13-Day Journey of a President-Elect (Tue, Jun 01, 2021)
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• Black Monday 1987 and The Shock of Risk (Final Ark of Commerce Series, Part 6a) (Sun, May 23, 2021)
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• American Epidemic: Philadelphia's Yellow Fever of 1793 (Fri, May 21, 2021)
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• We've Got Problems. We've Always Had Problems. (Sat, May 08, 2021)
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• Elephant in the Room: Former Presidents and Their Parties (Sat, May 01, 2021)
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• 1995: A Story of Politics On The Information Superhighway (Sat, May 01, 2021)
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• Leftovers From the Black Monday and Terrible Tuesday Casts. (Sat, May 01, 2021)
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• Leftovers from the Mechanics Institute Attack Podcast Episode - About Mayor Monroe and Lt. Governor Dunn (Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
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• The Man Behind the UN Who Never Got Credit - Edward Stettinius, Jr. w/Bill Scher (Tue, Apr 20, 2021)
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• Golden Beauty Boss: Madame Sara Spencer Washington w/ Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks (Mon, Apr 05, 2021)
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• The Young Dick Cheney (Wed, Mar 31, 2021)
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• 1921 - One Hundred Years Ago (Wed, Mar 24, 2021)
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• The 25th Amendment, Section Four Explained, w/ Brian C. Kalt (Fri, Mar 19, 2021)
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• This is William Rufus King w/ Thomas Balcerski - The Forgotten VP, His Role in The Compromise of 1850, His Relationship with James Buchanan and More (Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
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• Mario Cuomo is Not Running: A Tale of Politics (Mon, Mar 15, 2021)
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• Cholera and Benjamin Harrison (Fri, Mar 12, 2021)
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• Unfriending From Jefferson and Adams, to today (Thu, Mar 11, 2021)
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• Statue Removal: National Valhalla: Statues, Confederates, Slaveowners, Washington, Trump, Memory and Time (Wed, Mar 10, 2021)
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• Elvis Meets Nixon - The Insider Story (Wed, Mar 10, 2021)
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• You Break Everybody's Back Part II: The 1988 Election (Fri, Mar 05, 2021)
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• You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Election - Part One (Thu, Mar 04, 2021)
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• Enemies: Nixon Goes to China (Fri, Feb 19, 2021)
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• George Romney (Thu, Feb 18, 2021)
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• 16 Obscure Facts About Presidents w/ Jeremy Anderberg of The Art of Manliness and Readmorebooks.co (Sun, Feb 14, 2021)
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• Calvin Coolidge Became Somebody (Mon, Feb 01, 2021)
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• The Power to Pardon (Sun, Jan 17, 2021)
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• Alcatraz: The American Indian Movement (Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
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• Why is There an Electoral College? (Wed, Jan 13, 2021)
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• Democracy w/ Dr. Paul Cartledge of Cambridge University: The Life, and Hopefully Not Death, of Democracy (2017) (Sat, Jan 09, 2021)
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• The Original Adlai Stevenson, Cleveland's 2nd Vice President (Wed, Jan 06, 2021)
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• Your TV Lied To You...All About Presidential Scandals (Mon, Jan 04, 2021)
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• The Story of Samantha Smith (Fri, Jan 01, 2021)
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• Masks Then and Now, 1960 Election Presidents Leaving and Not Leaving Oval, Also 14 Years of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
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• Geeks, Orcs and Herbert Hoover (Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
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• I Don't Want to Trick You: The Lyndon Johnson - Richard Nixon Presidential Transition, and Other Stories (Tue, Dec 29, 2020)
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• There Must Be Some Trick in It - Constitution Advocates Take on Conspiracy: Madison, Wilson, "Mr Union" and Others. (Fri, Dec 25, 2020)
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• Etiquette and Social Media: Where are Our Manners? Social Etiquette from Ben Franklin to Dale Carnegie to Today, w Jessica Weisberg (Fri, Dec 18, 2020)
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• Pirates and America, w/ Rebecca Simon, Author of "Why We Love Pirates" (Thu, Dec 17, 2020)
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• Why Do Nebraska and Maine Vote for President The Way They Do? And Other Esoterica of The 2020 Election (Sat, Dec 12, 2020)
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• Did Nixon Win the Popular Vote in 1960? And Other Stories (Mon, Dec 07, 2020)
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• The Creation of Children: Child Labor in the U.S. and Child Labor Laws (Wed, Dec 02, 2020)
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• Flotsam and Jetsam of the 2020 Election (Tue, Dec 01, 2020)
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• I Am James Buchanan (Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
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• Post Election Talk w/ Chris Novembrino of Dont Worry About the Government (Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
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• Kent State: After the Bullets (Tue, Nov 17, 2020)
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• You Must Run if Drafted: Blaine and General Sherman, McKinley and Admiral Dewey (Mon, Nov 09, 2020)
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• Notes of 1884: Thoughts on That Election, and the Current One (Mon, Nov 09, 2020)
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• The 1796 Presidential Election: Placing us in a Point of Opposition to Each Other (Fri, Oct 30, 2020)
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• Don't Run for President: Candidates Who Ran, Didn't Run, Didn't Want to Run, Couldn't Run or Didn't Know They Were Running for President (Sun, Oct 25, 2020)
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• What You Haven't Been Told About The 1860 Election: Houston vs. Lincoln, Woke Volunteers, Fossil Politicians and More (Wed, Oct 21, 2020)
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• The "Gaffe-a-thon" of the 1976 Election (Mon, Oct 19, 2020)
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• Dewey Gets Mad: Another Look at the 1948 Election (Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
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• The Fifth Debate That Never Happened - 1960 (Fri, Oct 09, 2020)
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• Blaine's Faint, Washington's Flu, Defoe's London and SARS: Stories of Health and Sickness and Politics (Wed, Oct 07, 2020)
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• John W. Davis Also Ran (Tue, Oct 06, 2020)
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• Earl Warren Replacement, Election Year SCOTUS Battles, Mario Cuomo and Court Packing (Sun, Sep 20, 2020)
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• The 1880 Election and The Morey Letter: a Tale of October Surprise, Immigration, Memes and Counter Memes and Nothing to Do with Today's Politics (Thu, Sep 17, 2020)
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• George Washington's English Ancestors, Coolidge's Electric Horse and Other Stories (Tue, Sep 15, 2020)
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• All That Stuff Before the Debate Happens (Tue, Sep 08, 2020)
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• "It Looked Like Hell" - The Story of The 1980 DNC Convention w/ Rick Perlstein, Author of 'Reaganland' (Tue, Aug 18, 2020)
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• A Mystery of The 1992 Election: Did Clinton Win, Or Did Perot Put Him in Office? (Thu, Aug 13, 2020)
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• Granting of Certiorari: The Hidden Process Behind the Supreme Court (Wed, Aug 12, 2020)
";
• Top 10 Worst VP Picks in History (Tue, Aug 11, 2020)
";
• What the Old Country America Was Like, per William Monks (Tue, Aug 11, 2020)
";
• Most Effective Political Convention Ever? New York, 1976 DNC (Mon, Jul 27, 2020)
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• Bruce Interviewed on Intellectual Property...Frequently Podcast with David Pridham and Brad Sheafe (Wed, Jul 15, 2020)
";
• King Corn, Story of Ethanol (from 2013) (Tue, Jul 14, 2020)
";
• Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge (Fri, Jul 10, 2020)
";
• Operation Eagle Claw and the 1979 Iran Embassy Storming (Thu, Jul 02, 2020)
";
• Partisanship, 1850's Style w/ Josh Mensch, co-author of The Lincoln Conspiracy (Wed, Jul 01, 2020)
";
• A Powder Keg About to Explode: Newark, NJ 1967 (Mon, Jun 08, 2020)
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• The Cabinet, George Washington's Creation, with Lindsay M. Chervinsky (Tue, May 26, 2020)
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• What The Great Depression Felt Like, And Other Things (Sun, May 17, 2020)
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• Protests: The Whole World is Watching - Chicago 1968 (Wed, May 13, 2020)
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• History's Nine Most Insane Rulers w Scott Rank of "History Unplugged" Podcast (Tue, May 12, 2020)
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• Eyewitness to Kent State Shootings: Paula Stone Tucker (Fri, May 01, 2020)
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• Rules of Political Debate: Godwin's Law is Not a Law (Fri, May 01, 2020)
";
• Measure Everything: Ark of Commerce Part 5 (Sun, Apr 19, 2020)
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• Make It Stop: When Commerce Stopped (Ark of Commerce Part 4 Replay) (Sat, Apr 18, 2020)
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• Truman, the Marshall Plan and the 1948 Election w/ A.J. Baime (Thu, Apr 02, 2020)
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• Stop Carter: A Story of 1976 Politics (Mon, Mar 23, 2020)
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• Rum, Romanism and Rebellion - The 3 Words That Changed Presidential History (Wed, Mar 18, 2020)
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• The Spanish Flu of 1918 and Its Aftermath - Conversation with Laura Spinney (Mon, Mar 02, 2020)
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• Disco Demolition and The First South Carolina Primary (Sun, Feb 23, 2020)
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• Washington and The Bill of Rights: A Mystery (Sat, Feb 15, 2020)
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• Iowa, Impeachment and the Universe (Sun, Feb 02, 2020)
";
• Too Minnesota Nice - Examining 1968 Even Closer (Sun, Feb 02, 2020)
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• Skokie, Neo-Nazis and Free Speech (Fri, Jan 24, 2020)
";
• The Surprising, Perhaps, History of Martin Luther King Day (Mon, Jan 20, 2020)
";
• More Obscure Facts About Presidents - Congress in the 1890's from one Congressman's Point of View: Racism, Regionalism, Party Conflict and Intra Party Conflict (Sat, Jan 18, 2020)
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• Truman's Mild Support of JFK (Fri, Jan 17, 2020)
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• Mister 22 and Mister 24: Grover Cleveland (Wed, Jan 01, 2020)
";
• Impeachment - Conversation with David Priess and Bruce Carlson (Mon, Dec 02, 2019)
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• A World Disrupted - Interview w/ Charles Emmerson, Author of "Crucible - The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924" (Mon, Dec 02, 2019)
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• Lincoln and Zachary Taylor (Mon, Nov 18, 2019)
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• A Deep Dive into The Emancipation Proclamation (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
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• Switching VIces (Mon, Nov 11, 2019)
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• Butterfield: Nixon’s Watergate Frenemy (Tue, Nov 05, 2019)
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• Stop Talking About Momentum: The Race for President 1984 (Tue, Oct 22, 2019)
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• The Mystery of Impeachment - How it Works, What Happened in 1868 and More (Sun, Oct 20, 2019)
";
• Beam Me Up: The James Traficant Story w/ Alex Hastie of The Ohio v. The World Podcast (Sun, Oct 20, 2019)
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• Bruce Talks About Everything, Dem Debates Trump 2020 and Clinton 1996, Supreme Court (Tue, Oct 01, 2019)
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• Brown vs. The Board of Education (Tue, Sep 10, 2019)
";
• Brexit, Boris and UK and Irish Politics w/ Steven Byrne from What am Politics (Sat, Aug 31, 2019)
";
• Holden Caufield and Xerox: The Corporate Personhood Debate (from 2013) (Tue, Aug 20, 2019)
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• How to Rank The Presidents, with Susan Swain and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN (Wed, Jul 24, 2019)
";
• Colonel Franklin - Benjamin Franklin's Decision to Use Force (from THEY SIGNED PODCAST) (Fri, Jun 28, 2019)
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• The Ark of Commerce Part IV: Make It Stop (Thu, May 23, 2019)
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• Sedition, Presidents and the Press (Wed, May 01, 2019)
";
• Surprising Facts About Accidental Presidents - Interview w Jared Cohen (Fri, Apr 19, 2019)
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• Young Jefferson, Signer of The Declaration and Other Virginia Signers (FROM THEY SIGNED PODCAST) (Mon, Apr 01, 2019)
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• Third Parties: The Moped and the Maserati - Why Third Parties Haven't Won in American Politics (Wed, Mar 20, 2019)
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• Woodrow Wilson Has No Friends: Wilson, His Politics and His Image Today with Patricia O'Toole (Mon, Mar 18, 2019)
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• The Slaughter Could Not Be Ignored - (Fri, Mar 15, 2019)
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• The Making of the Franklin Pierce Cast (Fri, Mar 01, 2019)
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• LBJ 's Cell Phone and His Decision to Jump on the Ticket in 1960 (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
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• Nixon in Full (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
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• Interview with Sidney Blumenthal - Putting Lincoln in a Political Context, Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, The Whigs and More (Tue, Feb 12, 2019)
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• 28 Minutes: A Classic Debate Moment of Silence (Fri, Feb 01, 2019)
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• Mexico's Contribution to World War II and Other Stories (Mon, Jan 07, 2019)
";
• The Shays Rebellion and Its Implications (Sat, Jan 05, 2019)
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• Investigating the Executive Branch: The Trial of Thomas Jefferson, Governor (Wed, Jan 02, 2019)
";
• Economy and Jobs: Debunking "The Good Old Days" Argument with Gregg Easterbrook (Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
";
• Searching for Eisenhower: Ike on War, Civil Rights, Big Government and Political Moderation (with William Hitchcock) (Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
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• The Ark of Commerce, Part III: Loco (Sat, Dec 29, 2018)
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• Curtis LeMay, Warrior, Candidate - with Alex Hastie of Ohio v. The World Podcast (Fri, Dec 28, 2018)
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• The Ark of Commerce, Part II: Two If By Sea (Fri, Dec 28, 2018)
";
• LBJ and The Creation of Medicare - 50 Years Ago (Fri, Dec 28, 2018)
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• The Ark of Commerce - Part I: Crash Party (Thu, Dec 27, 2018)
";
• The Craziest Speaker of The House Election, Indian Removal Petitions and Other Thoughts (Tue, Dec 25, 2018)
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• Saturday Night Nixon: The Firing That Sealed Watergate (Mon, Dec 17, 2018)
";
• George H.W. Bush, 03 30 81 (Sun, Dec 02, 2018)
";
• Presidents After Midterms with Matt K. Lewis (Tue, Nov 20, 2018)
";
• David Priess on the Realities of Impeachment and the History of Presidential Removal (Wed, Nov 14, 2018)
";
• The Black Bands on the Goal Post -'Leftovers' from the Argentina 1978 Episode (Wed, Nov 07, 2018)
";
• Posse Comitatus and Billy The Kid (Sun, Nov 04, 2018)
";
• Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The American Mind (Tue, Oct 16, 2018)
";
• About That Court-Packing Idea. SCOTUS Discussion Part II w/ Chris Novembrino (Tue, Oct 16, 2018)
";
• Healthcare: Doctor Nixon, President Nixon on Healthcare (Tue, Sep 18, 2018)
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• Presidential Scandals: Watergate, Whiskey Ring and Others (Mon, Sep 03, 2018)
";
• Midterms: They Don't Always Work Out Badly for Presidents (But Mostly They Do) (Mon, Aug 06, 2018)
";
• Leon Neyfakh of The 'Slow Burn' Podcast on Watergate and Whitewater (Wed, Aug 01, 2018)
";
• War: 1983 and How Close We Came to Nuclear War w/ Marc Ambinder (Sun, Jul 29, 2018)
";
• RFK Anniversary: Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy and the Missing Element in Today's Politics (Sat, Jul 28, 2018)
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• Tariffs: Smoot - The Man Behind the Tariff (Sat, Jul 28, 2018)
";
• Wild Times in the North Dakota Bakken Fields w/ Maya Rao = Dark Side of Booms Part 2: (Sun, Jul 22, 2018)
";
• Gerrymandering: Gerry and His "Mander" (from 2013, with an Update on Gerrymandering Supreme Court case) (Wed, Jul 18, 2018)
";
• Russia: Everything You Know About The Russian Revolution is Wrong - Russian Journalist Mikhail Zygar on 1917, History, Putin, Democracy and More (Wed, Jul 18, 2018)
";
• Good Economic Times: The Dark Side of Booms: The 1920s (Tue, Jul 17, 2018)
";
• Civil War Bonds - The Importance of Commerce to the Civil War (Tue, Jul 10, 2018)
";
• Soccer and Repression: 1978 and the World Cup in Argentina (Sun, Jul 08, 2018)
";
• Tariffs: Taft Walks Away - The Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 (Sun, Jun 10, 2018)
";
• Marc Ambinder on Being a White House Correspondent (Sun, Jun 03, 2018)
";
• Infrastructure: The Bad Side and Good Side of Infrastructure - Robert Moses and Other Tales with Greg Young of the Bowery Boys NYC Podcast (Thu, May 31, 2018)
";
• US Intelligence Services: The Secret Intelligence of All The President's Men: Interview with David Priess on CIA Briefings, History, Trump, Mueller and More (Mon, May 14, 2018)
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• Rigged Elections: That Time the DNC Rigged a Nomination (Thu, Apr 26, 2018)
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• Movies and Politics: Writing History With Lightning: The Controversial Mix of Movies and Politics and History (Sun, Apr 01, 2018)
";
• America and Rome: w/ Mike Duncan (Sun, Apr 01, 2018)
";
• Presidential Power: Democracy's Diet? The Two-Term Presidential Limit of the 22nd Amendment (Tue, Feb 27, 2018)
";
• U.S.-Mexico Relations w/ Bob Crawford and Ben Sawyer of "The Road to Now " Podcast Live in Mexico (Sat, Feb 24, 2018)
";
• Where's Reagan? Reagan in Our Politics Today - The Final of the Dozen Ronald Reagans Series - Episode Twelve (Mon, Jan 22, 2018)
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• Did Reagan Win the Cold War? A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Episode Eleven (Sun, Jan 21, 2018)
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• Year of the Missile: Reagan's First Term Cold War Steps - A Dozen Ronald Reagans, Part 10 (Sat, Jan 20, 2018)
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• Shockwave 1981 - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Nine (Thu, Jan 11, 2018)
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• White House on Fire: Iran Contra - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part 8 -REPLAY (Tue, Jan 09, 2018)
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• Reformation: Tax Reform , Immigration, S&Ls - A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Seven (Sat, Jan 06, 2018)
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• Hands Across America:: A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Six (Thu, Jan 04, 2018)
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• 1976 Convention: A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Five (Tue, Jan 02, 2018)
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• A Telephone Scandal, and People Giving Their Money to the Treasury (Mon, Jan 01, 2018)
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• That "Other Part" of The Declaration of Independence: The Grievances and What They Say About Executive Power, Immigration, and Other Issues (Mon, Jan 01, 2018)
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• Witches' Brew: Central America, Lebanon, Poland - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Four (Sun, Dec 31, 2017)
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• Rubik's Cube: Two Reagan Mysteries Solved - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Three - (Fri, Dec 29, 2017)
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• A Taxing Second Year - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Two (Tue, Dec 26, 2017)
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• Rawhide is OK - First of Our Series on a 'Dozen Ronald Reagans' (Sat, Dec 23, 2017)
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• The Making of A Dozen Ronald Reagans (Wed, Dec 20, 2017)
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• Briefing Ronald Reagan (Mon, Dec 18, 2017)
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• Bruce Takes Twenty Questions on History and Politics (Thu, Nov 09, 2017)
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• What if there was no Constitution? Emoluments, Tariffs, the 17th (Thu, Nov 02, 2017)
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• Rutherford B Hayes Presidency (Tue, Oct 24, 2017)
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• President by Accident: Truman, Atomic Warfare, Russians and Trump w/ A.J. Baime (Tue, Oct 17, 2017)
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• A Question on Multiple Impeachments, from 2017 (Wed, Oct 04, 2017)
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• The Grand Ol' Democratic Party? (Tue, Oct 03, 2017)
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• How JFK's Death was Felt in The Soviet Union (Mon, Oct 02, 2017)
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• Patrick Henry, Underrated Founder - Interview with Jon Kukla (Tue, Sep 05, 2017)
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• The Split on The Left of Politics and Why it Matters, w/ Chris Novembrino (Tue, Aug 22, 2017)
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• Elvis Presley and America (Tue, Aug 15, 2017)
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• Sinking of the Lusitania (Wed, Aug 09, 2017)
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• The Sculptor, The Activist and The Senator - More Characters from Andrew Johnson's 1868 Impeachment (Tue, Aug 01, 2017)
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• Written Out of History? Robert Yates, Luther Martin, Mercy Otis Warren (Tue, Aug 01, 2017)
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• Charleston 1860 and Secession: Interview with Paul Starobin (Sat, Jul 22, 2017)
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• John Jay's Horse , George Washington's Mill and the Emoluments Clause (Sat, Jul 08, 2017)
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• Interview with Kevin Lacz, Decorated Navy SEAL and Star of "American Sniper" (Fri, Jun 23, 2017)
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• The Strange Story of John Morrissey (Wed, Jun 14, 2017)
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• A Bit About Gorsuch (Tue, Jun 13, 2017)
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• We Almost Got Rid of the Vice Presidency (Mon, May 29, 2017)
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• Public Sector vs. Blue Collar Unions and Other Questiions (Mon, May 29, 2017)
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• It's Not Common to Be Unconstitutional (Sun, May 28, 2017)
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• Lincoln Over Easy: The Creation of a President's Image (Sat, May 20, 2017)
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• Explaining Brexit and The U.K Election to Americans – Conversation with Stephen Byrne of WhatAmPolitics Podcast (Tue, May 16, 2017)
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• Bryan On the Tariff (Sat, May 06, 2017)
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• Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court (Thu, Apr 13, 2017)
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• The President’s Book of Secrets: Interview with David Priess (Sun, Apr 02, 2017)
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• That Time When a Presidential Candidate Actually Was Bugged (Sat, Mar 04, 2017)
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• How to Use George Washington in a Debate (Tue, Feb 28, 2017)
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• Interview w/ John Avlon, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast, Author of Washington’s Farewell (Mon, Feb 13, 2017)
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• The First Hundred Days from Wilson to Trump (Sun, Feb 05, 2017)
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• How Mandates Were Invented (Mon, Jan 30, 2017)
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• The Census - The Original Big Data (Thu, Jan 26, 2017)
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• The (Very Few) Rejected Cabinet Choices (Wed, Jan 11, 2017)
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• Emerson Ethridge - The Man Who Tried to Steal Congress (Mon, Jan 09, 2017)
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• Russian Intelligence and Control from Soviet Times to Putin (Sun, Jan 01, 2017)
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• Were Nazis Right or Left? (Sun, Jan 01, 2017)
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• Fib That American President Creates Jobs (Thu, Dec 01, 2016)
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• Why Do Vice Presidents Out Number Presidents? And Other Questions? (Thu, Nov 24, 2016)
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• More Post Election Thoughts (2016) (Thu, Nov 24, 2016)
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• The 2016 Election, Taken with a Swig of History (Thu, Nov 10, 2016)
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• Bruce Carlson Interviewed on the Road to Now (Mon, Nov 07, 2016)
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• The Real Story of the 1948 Election (Tue, Nov 01, 2016)
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• Nasty Campaign Attacks, Set to Jazz Music (Thu, Oct 27, 2016)
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• Navy Blue Nixon and Other Stories (Thu, Oct 13, 2016)
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• 1884: A Very Unpleasant Election - Cleveland vs. Blaine (Sun, Oct 02, 2016)
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• Walter Jenkins and the 1964 Election (Thu, Sep 29, 2016)
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• Concession (Wed, Sep 14, 2016)
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• The Incredibly Shrinking Fourth (Mon, Sep 05, 2016)
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• In the End You Become Yourself: Talk with Chris Novembrino of Dont Worry About the Government (Wed, Aug 17, 2016)
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• Bob Seeger and the Steelworker - Manufacturing vs. Service in Political Debates (Tue, Aug 02, 2016)
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• 1840 -Clowns With Pink Noses and Lofty Tumbling (Thu, Jul 07, 2016)
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• Rottenborough Delegates: A Quirk in Party Nominations From Lincoln to Trump (Thu, Jul 07, 2016)
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• Schedule of Conventions: Why is the GOP Convention First, Democrats Second, Brexit Other Topics. (Thu, Jun 16, 2016)
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• Bruce Carlson Interviewed on DWATG Cast - Trump VP, Conventions, If Biden Had Run, and More (Wed, May 25, 2016)
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• The First Presidential Farewell (Wed, May 11, 2016)
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• How Much Did The Hostage Issue Affect 1980 Election: One Take (Wed, May 11, 2016)
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• The "Manhattan Project" in the Clinton 1992 Campaign (Mon, May 09, 2016)
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• The Fib That Your Side is Going to Win (Wed, Mar 09, 2016)
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• Madison Can't Get a Seat at the Starbucks, and How to Read a Constitution (Wed, Mar 09, 2016)
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• Scots Irish in American History and Politics (Thu, Jan 21, 2016)
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• Huey Long and Trump, Vetoes, and Other Stories (Tue, Jan 19, 2016)
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• The Craziest Speaker Election Ever and Other Ephemra (Sun, Dec 20, 2015)
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• Why Did the Founders, Signers, Framers Wear Wigs And Other Stories... (FROM THEY SIGNED PODCAST) (Tue, Dec 15, 2015)
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• LIncoln Goes to China (Wed, Nov 25, 2015)
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• How Wilson Carried Ohio in 1916, and Other Listener Questions (Thu, Nov 19, 2015)
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• Damned Fool Mistake: Eisenhower's Real Feelings About the Supreme Court (Wed, Oct 21, 2015)
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• The Man Who Saved Boston But Never Got Credit, Also - the Last Lincoln? (Thu, Oct 15, 2015)
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• Pigasus and Odd Presidential Candidates (2015) (Tue, Jun 16, 2015)
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• Representation: A History (Mon, Jun 15, 2015)
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• Mad Man Finale, 1980 Election and Many Other Side Dishes (Wed, May 20, 2015)
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• Your Inner Karl Rove (Sun, Feb 01, 2015)
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• The Return and Return of Nativism (Tue, Jan 06, 2015)
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• Social Security Had Its Glitches Too (Thu, Dec 25, 2014)
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• Midterm Defeats and Presidential Coattail in Previous Election (Thu, Dec 11, 2014)
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• They Shall from Time to Time?: History of The Opposition Answer to President's SOTU (Wed, Sep 03, 2014)
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• The Fitzsimmons Challenge: How a 1790's Race Got Nasty and Maybe Started a Trend (Fri, Aug 15, 2014)
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• Logan Act (Wed, Jul 16, 2014)
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• History of Education in the US and Other Thoughts (Sun, Feb 02, 2014)
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• King's Rook: When the President's Party Has the Senate, Not the House (Sun, Feb 02, 2014)
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• Can The President Just Use the 14th To Pay the Debt? (Wed, Jan 01, 2014)
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• What's All This Talk About Swapping Horses? (Thu, Oct 10, 2013)
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• Wilson Battles with is own Secretary of State, and Other Stories (Thu, Aug 01, 2013)
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• Abolish the Senate! (Fri, Apr 05, 2013)
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• Second Terms Worst Than the First (Wed, Jan 02, 2013)
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• DC Statehood - from 2013 (Wed, Jan 02, 2013)
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• Transitions from one President to Another (Wed, Dec 05, 2012)
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• Debates Matter Because They Do (Fri, Nov 23, 2012)
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• A Bunch of Topics, VP Hobart, Deportation (Thu, Oct 04, 2012)
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• The Key Bridge Factor (Wed, Sep 19, 2012)
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• Losing VP Candidates (Thu, Aug 09, 2012)
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• Strange Days at Conventions (Wed, Aug 01, 2012)
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• Why The 1916 Election Matters (Thu, Jun 07, 2012)
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• Events of 1916 (Wed, Jun 06, 2012)
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• Did the Founders Care if We Starve? (Sun, Jun 03, 2012)
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• Wendell Willkie and a Lighting Nomination (Mon, Mar 12, 2012)
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• In Which the Winner of the '12 Election is Revealed (Sat, Mar 03, 2012)
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• FDR's Newsreels, Coolidge's Microphone - Presidents and Their Fave Media (Thu, Feb 02, 2012)
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• The Whole 'Do Nothing Congress' Gambit (Sun, Jan 01, 2012)
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• A Cast from 2011 - Obama, Egypt, More.. (Mon, Oct 10, 2011)
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• The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Public Sector Unions (Mon, Jun 27, 2011)
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• Game Time in Politics and The Court (Wed, Jun 08, 2011)
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• F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's Way of Writing (Mon, Jun 06, 2011)
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• Tucson Shooting and American Political Violence (Thu, May 12, 2011)
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• A Little About Anarchism (Wed, May 04, 2011)
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• Does the Challenger Even Matter? (Sun, Feb 20, 2011)
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• Does a President Lose the Presidency When they Lose the House? "The 2 Year Ditch" of American Politics (Sat, Dec 11, 2010)
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• Autopsy of a Midterm 2010 (Thu, Nov 18, 2010)
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• The Forgotten Other Great Depression (1893) (Mon, Oct 11, 2010)
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• Clayton's Meetings and Other Thoughts (Thu, Oct 07, 2010)
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• Bicameral Thoughts: Reflection on the 2010 Midterm Results (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
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• Heller Decision on Guns and the 2A (Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
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• Should A President Campaign in Midterms? (Wed, Sep 01, 2010)
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• Social Security, Civil War Pensions (Tue, Mar 16, 2010)
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• Al Haig and Other Stories (Mon, Mar 15, 2010)
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• How the Battle for California Statehood Defined America (Mon, Mar 01, 2010)
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• Is Healthcare a "Second Third Rail" of American Politics? (Sun, Jan 10, 2010)
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• Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? Minicare (Sun, Jan 10, 2010)
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• How Primary Became a Verb (Sun, Jan 03, 2010)
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• The Aughts the Ohs, Burr, Fox, Cuba, Taxes (Fri, Jan 01, 2010)
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• Famous Brokered Conventions (Fri, Jan 01, 2010)
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• You Don't Take on Sitting Presidents Anymore, Because of 2 Elections (Fri, Jan 01, 2010)
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• What George W. Bush Says for Himself - A Brief Read of Decision Points (Sat, Oct 10, 2009)
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• Incredible Passages - Passing BIg Legislation is Not Easy (Wed, Sep 09, 2009)
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• History of the Primaries (Tue, Sep 08, 2009)
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• Obama and Bush Compared (2009) (Tue, Aug 11, 2009)
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• The Terrible Twos? (Sat, Aug 08, 2009)
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• Presidents in Times of Anxiety (Mon, Jun 01, 2009)
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• Did Stimulus Work? (2009) (Mon, Jun 01, 2009)
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• Souter, Torture Memos, Tun Tavern and the Marines, and Other Listener Questions (Mon, May 04, 2009)
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• Assessing TARP (Tue, Mar 10, 2009)
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• 'Squeaker' Re-elections (Tue, Mar 03, 2009)
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• Pennsylvania Swing State (Tue, Feb 10, 2009)
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• Ex Presidents (Mon, Feb 09, 2009)
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• Washington's First Year 1789 (Sun, Feb 01, 2009)
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• Carter 1977 (Fri, Jan 02, 2009)
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• Beer and Politics, Tea and Taxes, and Other Listener Questions (Thu, Jan 01, 2009)
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• An Historic Election, for Many Reasons, Episode from 2008 (Tue, Dec 02, 2008)
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• Election of 2008 Review, with an eye to history (Mon, Dec 01, 2008)
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• Hillary Clinton as SecState, Obama's Chances in 2012, Chester Arthur and Other Listener Questions (Mon, Dec 01, 2008)
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• Flotsam and Jetsom of the 2008 Election (Wed, Nov 12, 2008)
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• Why Cant We Lean on a Shovel? (Tue, Nov 11, 2008)
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• Financial Panics in America (Sat, Nov 08, 2008)
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• Obama Picks Biden for VP - Other Topics (2008) (Wed, Sep 17, 2008)
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• Guns and 2nd Amendment (2008) (Tue, Sep 09, 2008)
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• Monroe's First Year as President - 1817 (Wed, Aug 20, 2008)
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• Drifting into Military Involvement in Lebanon 1983 and Mexico 1913 (Thu, Aug 14, 2008)
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• All About Coattails -Does the President Wear a Coat, or a Windbreaker? (Sat, Aug 02, 2008)
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• Ferraro (Fri, Aug 01, 2008)
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• The Palin Pick (2008) (Thu, Jul 24, 2008)
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• Staying in Iraq, Staying in Vietnam (Thu, Jun 19, 2008)
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• Missouri - The Show Me Swing State (Thu, Jun 12, 2008)
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• Filibuster-Proof Majorities, Palin and Teddy, Why Look at History, Whigs: Listener Questions#9 (Thu, Jun 05, 2008)
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• History Picks the President 2008 (Wed, May 14, 2008)
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• Charles II is Messing With Us, And Other Stories (Mon, May 12, 2008)
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• President of the Senate (Thu, Apr 10, 2008)
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• Fifth and Market Moment - Jefferson and Adams, President and Vice President at Odds (Thu, Feb 07, 2008)
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• Tax Cuts - Historical Perspective (Sat, Feb 02, 2008)
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• Old Dominion (Sun, Jan 13, 2008)
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• Fixing the Primaries (Wed, Jan 09, 2008)
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• "Super Duper" Tuesday (Tue, Jan 01, 2008)
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• British Prime Ministers and US Presidents (Sat, Dec 01, 2007)
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• Survivor Island and the Bill of Rights (Thu, Nov 22, 2007)
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• Gerald Ford and His Times (Thu, Oct 11, 2007)
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• Three-Way Elections (Wed, Aug 08, 2007)
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• The Constitutional Conventioneers (Sat, May 19, 2007)
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• Jefferson and Adams Letters - What Did They Write To Each Other? (Mon, May 14, 2007)
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• History of Objectivity in the Media (Tue, Apr 10, 2007)
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• The Veto Override (Sun, Mar 04, 2007)
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• American Zig Zag on Immigration Policy (Sat, Feb 03, 2007)
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• The History of the Federal Reserve (Sat, Jan 20, 2007)
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• The Veto and its History (Fri, Jan 12, 2007)
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• Forty Years of One Party In Congress (Mon, Jan 01, 2007)
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• All About Polls (Wed, Nov 01, 2006)
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• Nevada and its Politics (Thu, Sep 21, 2006)
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• History of Fannie Mae (Fri, Sep 15, 2006)
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• Objectivity and The Media (2006) (Wed, Sep 06, 2006)
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• Filibuster: A Brief History (Fri, Sep 01, 2006)
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• How Do You End A War? (Thu, Aug 17, 2006)
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• Abe Lincoln That NeoCon, That Liberal... (Wed, Aug 16, 2006)
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• A History of Speakers of The House (Tue, Aug 01, 2006)
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• Presidents and the Media - Coddling, Manipulating from Lincoln to Bush (Sun, Jul 02, 2006)
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• Has Television Really Changed Politics? An Examination (from 2006) (Sat, Jul 01, 2006)
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