[Abridged] Presidential Histories
From Yorktown to the Civil War, Pearl Harbor to 9/11, Abridged Presidential Histories explores the successes, setbacks, and scandals that define each president’s legacy, and then asks what lessons we can learn from them.
Podcasting since 2020 • 131 episodes
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
Latest Episodes
The improbable Victoria Woodhull, an interview with Eden Collinsworth
"While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it," - Victoria Woodhull, April 2, 1870, in a newspaper column announcing her candidacy for presidency of the United States.You may know that Victoria Woodhull was the first wom...
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Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 2
Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide.Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the Greek city states were a bunch of backwaters. And that's how history may have remember...
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Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 1
Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide.Athens wasn't always a democracy, but when a tyrant overplayed his hand and a revolutionary proposed something better, it launched a new form of government that changed the Greek w...
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45.) Donald Trump part 1 2017-2021
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now." - Donald Trump, inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 2017.The American presidency had long fascinated Donald Trump. Ever since attending the 1988 GOP National Convention, Trump had w...
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8.A) Martin Van Buren, America's first politician, an interview with James Bradley
Martin Van Buren is known as the "little magician." If he was a magician, he cast a powerful spell. The two party system he championed and helped establish has ruled the United States for two centuries and Democratic party he co-founded is the ...
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