[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 • 133 episodes
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
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2025 Friendsgiving History Podcast Spectacular
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20.B) Death by Lightning, an interview on the assassination of James Garfield with Candice Millard
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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
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