The American Idea
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The American Idea explores America's Founding principles and their effect on American history and government. Through thoughtful conversations with renowned academics and public figures from across the country, we examine the history and political thought behind our country’s greatest documents and debates, as well as contemporary issues, American popular culture, and political statesmanship. The podcast is a production of the Ashbrook Center and hosted by Jeff Sikkenga.
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Energy and the Environment - Are Things as Bad as We're Told?
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May 15, 2024 |
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Did Federal Officials Pressure Social Media Companies to Censor Americans?
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May 08, 2024 |
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A Conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
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May 01, 2024 |
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Bombing Hitler's Hometown - the Untold Story of the Last Mass Bombing Raid Over Europe in WW2 | Documents & Debates
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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World War 1's Far-Reaching Impact on America | Documents & Debates
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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The Importance of Good Local Government | American Core Ideas
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Servant Leadership and Building a Winning Team | American Core Ideas
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Perspectives on Leadership and Current Threats to America with Congressman Jim Jordan
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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China's Trojan Horse? Tik Tok and the Information Wars
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The Harlem Renaissance - A Uniquely American Movement | Documents & Debates
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Clear and Present Danger: The Use and Abuse of Presidential War Powers
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Civilian-Military Relations from the Founding to Today
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Not Getting What We're Paying For: U.S. Healthcare Policy
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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U.S. Energy Policy - The Pursuit of Failure
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Chevron Doctrine: What is it and How Does it Challenge Our Constitutional System?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Political Parties - Not Part of the Plan But There From the Beginning | Documents & Debates
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Hostage Crisis and America's Troubles with Iran | Documents & Debates
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Jefferson, Race, and Slavery: A New Perspective
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Parental Rights in Education | Contemporary Conversations
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Core American Ideas: The Electoral College
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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American Portraits - Jazz: America's Classical Music
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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John Brown - American Extremist | American Portraits
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Shipwrecked - A True Civil War Story
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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All the Troubles in the World: An Update on Israel, Ukraine, and China
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Nixon, China, and Ramifications for Today
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: JFK's Assassination at 60 Years
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: The Gettysburg Address at 160 Years
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: The Battle of Tarawa at 80 Years
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: CRT, Identitarianism, and the Struggle for America's Heart and Mind
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The Battle for the Speaker's Gavel | Contemporary Conversations
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Court Packing Then, and Now?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: American Exceptionalism and the Civil War
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Core American Ideas: Separation of Powers - Why it Matters; Why We Should Care
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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American Portraits: Last Summer Boys
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: Ohio Attorney General David Yost on Constitution Day 2023
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: A "Post-America" American History?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Core American Ideas: Natural Rights and Limited Government
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: A Student's Journey
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: The Summer of Beer & Whiskey
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Oppenheimer - Hollywood and History
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Reconsidering the Atomic Bombs
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Documents & Debate: LBJ, Vietnam, and the Cold War
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy Speaks About the Rule of Law
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: "To Address You As My Friend": African-Americans' Letters to Lincoln
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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American Portraits: James Garfield
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: School Censorship? It's Complicated...
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: The Battle of Gettysburg at 160 Years
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Rapid Reaction: June 2023 Supreme Court Decisions
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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American Portraits: John C. Calhoun - American Heretic
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: FDR, Stalin, and the Rise of Russia as a World Power
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Bank Failures and Federal Reserve Policy
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: Religious Liberty, the First Amendment, and the Courts
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: The Miracle of Lincoln's Nomination in 1860
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May 31, 2023 |
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American Portraits: Ernest Hemingway - American Icon
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May 24, 2023 |
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Documents and Debates: Don't Forget About Vicksburg
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May 17, 2023 |
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American Portraits: Alexander Hamilton
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May 10, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: America's First Constitution - the Articles of Confederation
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May 03, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: War in Ukraine
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Born American, But in the Wrong Place
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Documents and Debates: Stories from the American Revolution
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Remember the Alamo!
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: The Legacy of the Progressives
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: Censorship and Banned Books
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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American Portraits: The Western in American Political Culture
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: The 1619 Project and Telling America's Story
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: War with China?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Documents and Debates: The President and the Freedom Fighter
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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American Portraits: Ulysses S. Grant
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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American Portraits: Calvin Coolidge
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: War - What's It Good For? The Expansion of Presidential Emergency Powers from the Founding to the Present
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: January 2023: The New Congress - Analysis and Historical Commentary
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Documents and Debates: American? Or Victim of America? MLK and Malcom X
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Contemporary Conversations: Back to School and the State of American Education
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Documents & Debates: The Final Emancipation Proclamation
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Ronald Reagan and the Fight for Freedom
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Truck, Barter, and Exchange: Adam Smith’s Views on Trade, Economics, and Interpersonal Relations
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Winston Churchill - Honorary American
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Turning Points in World War 2
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Free Speech and the State of the American University
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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The Great Society - A New History
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Can We Save America? Abraham Lincoln and Our Troubled Politics
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Elections 2022: Analysis and Commentary with UVA's Jim Ceaser
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The American Idea | Secretary Mike Pompeo
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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The Battle for the Suburbs with Congressman Troy Balderson | Contemporary Conversations
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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The 2022 MIdterm Elections: Analysis and Forecasts
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Upcoming Supreme Court Cases Worth Knowing About
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Money is Not Wealth: What History Can Teach Us About Inflation
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 with Gordon Lloyd and Chris Burkett | Documents and Debates
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Critical Race Theory with Peter Myers | Contemporary Conversations
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Feminism and the #MeToo Movement | Taylor
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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John F. Kennedy and the Cold War with Stephen Knott | Documents and Debates
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Rival Friends: The Adams-Jefferson Correspondence with Cara Rogers | Documents and Debates
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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The Declaration of Independence | Documents and Debates
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Roe v. Wade Overturned and Other Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court's 2021-22 Term
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth, and the Connection Between Literature, Culture, and Politics | Documents & Debates
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Heroes of the Civil War | Documents and Debates
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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The Great Triumvirate with Jason Stevens | Documents and Debates
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May 18, 2022 |
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The Crisis of Civic Education: What Can We Do? with David Davenport | Contemporary Conversations
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May 04, 2022 |
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King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail with Greg McBrayer | Documents and Debates
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Chris Burkett | Documents and Debates
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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George W. Bush with Stephen Knott | Presidential Portraits
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Thomas Jefferson and Race with Cara Rogers | Documents and Debates
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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George Washington with Marc Landy | Presidential Portraits
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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The Unbroken Thread with Sohrab Ahmari | Contemporary Conversations
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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The Reagan Revolution with Greg McBrayer and John Moser | Documents and Debates
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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A Year in Review and Donor Conversations | Special Episode
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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The Collapse of Civic Education with Ken Starr | Contemporary Conversations
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Peter W. Schramm's "Born American, but in the Wrong Place" | Special Episode
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" with Peter Myers | Documents and Debates
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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FDR, the Election of 1932, and the Birth of New Deal America with John Moser | Documents and Debates
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The Evolution of the Vice Presidency with Stephen Knott | Contemporary Conversations
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Vice President Mike Pence | Contemporary Conversations
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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How Should We Interpret the Constitution? with Donald Drakeman | Contemporary Conversations
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Why the Progressive Era is Still Relevant Today with Jason Stevens | Documents and Debates
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Susan B. Anthony, Founding Principles, and the Women's Suffrage Movement with Natalie Taylor | Documents and Debates
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Democracy and American Prophets with Daniel Gullotta | Contemporary Conversations
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address with Lucas Morel | Documents and Debates
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Free Speech and Journalism in American History with Joe Fornieri | Contemporary Conversations
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Fox News Contributor Mollie Hemingway | Contemporary Conversations
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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The Gettysburg Address with Jason Stevens | Documents and Debates
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" with Lucas Morel | Documents and Debates
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Jefferson's Letters to Weightman and Lee with Cara Rogers | Documents and Debates
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Washington's Farewell Address with Chris Burkett | Documents and Debates
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Madison's Federalist Papers with Greg McBrayer | Documents and Debates
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Declaration of Independence with Chris Burkett | Documents and Debates
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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What is the American Idea? | Podcast Trailer
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Mar 26, 2021 |