Chester A. Arthur: Accidental President, The

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John Tyler, the Accidental President

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James Garfield: The Life and Legacy of the Second President to Be Assassinated

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The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur

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Martin Van Buren: A Captivating Guide to the Man Who Served as the Eighth President of the United States

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Wilson

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Grant

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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

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Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989

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Jackson

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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

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Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

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The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880

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The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953

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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace

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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

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Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President

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The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

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Thomas Jefferson: American Revolutionary

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Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency--21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories

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George Washington on Leadership

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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

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Henry Clay: The Essential American

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Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President

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Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897

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Andrew Jackson: A Captivating Guide to the Man Who Served as the Seventh President of the United States

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1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler---the Election Amid the Storm

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George H. W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 41st President, 1989-1993

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Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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And Then There Were None

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From Blood and Ash

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Fairy Tale

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The Bell Jar

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Divine Rivals: A Novel

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The House in the Cerulean Sea

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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

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The Dutch House: A Novel

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Twisted Love

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Local Woman Missing

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The Institute: A Novel

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How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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The Overstory

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The Paris Apartment: A Novel

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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The Ivy League Counterfeiter

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A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

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Good Girls Don't

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The Dead Zone

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What Lies Between Us

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Nothing to See Here

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If He Had Been with Me

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death: Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, along with Barbara Bair and Dr. Philip Mackowiak, deconstruct Harrison's transformative presidential campaign and debunk the myth of what killed him after only 32 days in office.

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128 Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History: Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about freedom to American independence from Great Britain and the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. But...

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Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents: Should we teach the presidency of Millard Fillmore? What do we lose if we don't? Historians Jean Baker and James McPherson, along with Washington Post education reporter T. Rees Shapiro, tackle these questions in our 13th episode.

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Best of - David McCullough, Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald: Time Travelers: It is the rare writer who can make history so compelling, so alive, that people will flock to read it. David McCullough, who died last Sunday, was one of those writers. He was the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books: one about President Harry Truman and one about President John Adams. In honor of Mr. McCullough, we are reposting this episode from 2020 which featured him and two other great presidential historians: Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald. They talk here about their subjects as if they had gone back in time and returned, breathless, to share the stories they'd heard. And each writer explains how he fell under the spell of history and made it his life's work.

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Lincoln on Infrastructure: Known in history for his role in ending slavery and prosecuting the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's most important issue in his time as an elected official was infrastructure. And in that, he was little different than his pioneer constituents. In this episode, we talk about Lincoln's roots, his arguments countering objections to improvement projects (that have relevance today), and how it shaped slavery and other political issues of his time.

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Bill O'Reilly | Killing the Witches: James and Bill O'Reilly embark on a harrowing journey back to the Salem Witch Trials through O'Reilly's latest book, "Killing The Witches." The discussion unveils the madness of the era, the emergence of a young Benjamin Franklin, and the profound impact of unchecked religious fervor on the course of American history.

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Gallipoli: James and Sean discuss the 1981 Australian film Gallipoli, which tells the story of a group of Australian young men who are introduced to the horrors of war at the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli.

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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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The collapse of the Third Reich: Frank McDonough discusses his new book charting the demise of Hitler’s Germany from 1940-45.

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I Am James Buchanan: He's the President that is on the bottom of most lists.  But why?  And is it fair?  What did he think about his place in history?  We talk about POTUS 15 and look at the events of the run-up to the American Civil War, and we hear...

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Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system: Martin Van Buren did much to create the political party establishments we have today. Experts Barbara Bair and Mark Cheathem, along with Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza, examine his mark on modern politics.

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Ron Chernow on 'Grant'

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#32 LINCOLN'S INAUGURATION: In which we look at Abraham Lincoln's inaugural journey from Illinois to Washington, D.C. and then his inauguration as the sixteenth President of the United States on March 4, 1861. 

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150 Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator: Abigail Adams lived through and participated in the American Revolution. As the wife of John Adams, she used her position to famously remind Adams and his colleagues to "remember the ladies" when they created laws for the new, independent United...

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O'Reilly Joins Joe Piscopo to Discuss the Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Climate Change& Reactions to Killing the SS: Bill O'Reilly joins Joe Piscopo's radio show to discuss the Ocasio Cortez's Tweet Relating the Migrants apart of the Caravan to Jews Escaping Germany, The Advancements of Climate Change & Reactions to 'Killing the...

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Max Boot: The Road Not Taken: Author Max Boot returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to talk about his book "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam"

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Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction: In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of the Civil War. Even before the war's end, various constituencies in the North attempted to control the shape of the post-war Reconstruction of the South. In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered his lenient "Ten Percent Plan." Six months later, Congressional Republicans concerned by Lincoln's charity rallied behind the more radical provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill. Despite their struggle for control over Reconstruction, Congressional Radicals and President Lincoln managed to work together on two vital pieces of Reconstruction legislation in the first months of 1865--the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States, and the Freedmen's Bureau bill. Transcript Lecture Page

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Franklin Pierce: Alexis and Elliott delve into the life of a handsome yet disappointing president, number 14, Franklin Pierce. They speak to a presidential grief specialist about how Pierce dealt with a tragic death two months before his inauguration, examine how the...

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Welcome to Reflections of History, with Jon Meacham

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Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor: Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congressional Republicans radically altered the direction of Reconstruction. The Act invalidated the reconstituted Southern legislatures, establishing five military districts in the South and insisting upon black suffrage as a condition to readmission. The eventful year 1868 saw the impeachment of one president (Andrew Johnson) and the election of another (Ulysses S. Grant). Meanwhile, southern African Americans struggle to reap the promises of freedom in the face of economic disempowerment and a committed campaign of white supremacist violence. Transcript Lecture Page

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1 - The Churchill of Asia: “They started with me on Diem,” LBJ told an old friend, “that he was corrupt, and he ought to be killed. So, we killed him.”  Not quite true, it turns out, but the brutal assassination of South Vietnam’s...

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John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency: When Vice President Tyler took over the White House, he set a precedent that would forever shape the office. This episode features experts Barbara Bair and Joel Goldstein, as well as descendants who talk about the ghost who haunts the Tyler home.

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Jon Meacham Rewrites Abraham Lincoln's Story

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MURDERING THE PRESIDENT-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield: Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to...

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101: The Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard - A True Crime History Podcast: On July 2nd, 1881, a disappointed and mentally unstable office-seeker named Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in a Washington D.C. train station. Over the next weeks, Garfield would linger, bedridden, as infection set in, caused by poor...

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Episode 209 The Secret Service Question Part 20 The Chicago Plot

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Episode 185 Richard Case Nagell Part 3 Bonus Episode 1

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Episode 184 Richard Case Nagell Part 2

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Episode 183 Richard Case Nagell Part 1

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Episode 115: Hoover, Patton & The Bonus Army: We close the loop on our series focusing on J Edgar Hoover and just a few of the major events he certainly had a hand in. Shortly before he died, his home was broken into. Some people believe his toiletries were poisoned. Just 6 short weeks later...