My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

By Bruce Carlson

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Sturla Stokvik
 Feb 18, 2022
This may be a fantastic podcast, but I will never listen to it. One reason: It has spammed "The Constant" with the same annoying ad, hundreds of times. And Bruce: You don't need to say www at the start of an internet address. The browser put them in automatically.

Matt
 Aug 18, 2018
I listened to this podcast for years without knowing the personal political views of the author. To me that speaks volumes. This podcast is a great view into history's parallels with current events, presented in an interesting way.

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Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates.  "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review

Episode Date
NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: Part One - Horatio Seymour, Horace Greeley and Others
Mar 25, 2024
Brown vs. The Board of Ed, Swain, PICS Decision, Busing and School Integration
Mar 18, 2024
Sputnik Lands in Wisconsin and Other Stories
Mar 07, 2024
A History of Student Loans and Higher Ed Financing in the U.S.
Mar 05, 2024
The French Revolution and America with Will Clark of "Grey History: The French Revolution and Napoleon Podcast"
Feb 26, 2024
Disco Demolition and The First South Carolina Primary
Feb 22, 2024
Whistlestop Train Campaigns w/ Edward Segal
Feb 19, 2024
One More Story About The 1988 Presidential Election, and a Show Update
Feb 15, 2024
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 6, Theoretical Dukakis
Feb 12, 2024
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 5, Squishy Lead
Feb 05, 2024
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 4 - Showdown In New York
Jan 22, 2024
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 3 - Attack Videotape
Jan 15, 2024
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 2 [You Slayed My Dragon]
Jan 08, 2024
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 1 - Anybody's Race
Jan 02, 2024
Update on UK Politics with Stephen Byrne
Dec 24, 2023
1980 - A Hostage Mom Goes to Iran
Dec 21, 2023
The Jacksonians and Their Role in Today's Politics - John Ellis
Dec 18, 2023
The Asterisk: Bush vs. Reagan in Iowa 1980
Dec 11, 2023
Secrecy and Democracy with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame
Dec 04, 2023
Mississippi Bans Sesame Street (From the Useless Information Podcast)
Nov 27, 2023
Best Rabbit: Dan Quayle
Nov 20, 2023
Special Episode: Three Ways You Can Help My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (Hint: All of them are Free)
Nov 17, 2023
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 5 [Imperialism Just Kind of Happens]
Nov 13, 2023
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 4 [The Republic For Which It Stands]
Nov 09, 2023
Move My Bill! A History of Discharge Petitions
Nov 06, 2023
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 3 [A Voyage to Other Worlds]
Nov 02, 2023
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's Part 2 [Tin Man[
Oct 30, 2023
Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 1 [Mauve Decade]
Oct 25, 2023
Warm Bucket: Vice President John Nance Garner
Oct 22, 2023
Bunch of Topics: House Speakers, Kaiser Permanente, Post Office History, and Poets
Oct 17, 2023
Lebanon 1983 and Other Stories
Oct 16, 2023
Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part Two
Oct 12, 2023
Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part I
Oct 09, 2023
Carter 1981
Oct 02, 2023
History Favors Running Incumbent Presidents, Whenever Possible
Sep 26, 2023
Carter 1979
Sep 18, 2023
Carter 1977
Sep 11, 2023
We Did It Because It Was Fun: The Surprising 1964 New Hampshire Primary
Sep 04, 2023
Washington and The Bill of Rights: A Mystery
Aug 31, 2023
John Quincy Adams w/ Bob Crawford of The Road to Now Podcast
Aug 28, 2023
Running For President From Prison
Aug 21, 2023
Eyewitness Accounts of Columbine, Jonestown, Lake Placid Olympics, Pablo Escobar and Other Events with Josh Cohen of "Eyewitness History Podcast"
Aug 14, 2023
The Cute Little Third Amendment
Aug 07, 2023
17 Years of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, Show Update, Reagan and the 1960 Actors Strike, the 28 Amendments? And more..
Aug 02, 2023
Stop Talking About Momentum: The Race for President 1984
Jul 24, 2023
Three Point Two: The Story of New Deal Beer, Science, Government and Common Sense
Jul 17, 2023
JFK at 106 – Searching for The True Kennedy (Interview with Thomas Oliphant)
Jul 10, 2023
The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Jul 04, 2023
Playing Cards With the Signers of The Declaration w/ Jason Petri
Jul 03, 2023
Extras from the "Undeniably Unconsecutive" Grover Cleveland Episode
Jun 30, 2023
Undeniably Unconsecutive: The Story of Grover Cleveland's Third Election
Jun 26, 2023
Why Didn't Goldwater and LBJ Debate? A Biden-Obama Ticket? Hoover's Children's Charter, Podcast Recommendations and More
Jun 10, 2023
W.E.B. DuBois and The Wounded World w/ Chad L. Williams
Jun 04, 2023
Florida Man: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part III: A Certain Kind of Hari-Kari
May 29, 2023
Florida Man: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part II: Boo Me!
May 22, 2023
Florida Man: The Go-Go Governorship of Claude Kirk - Part I: Flashbulbs
May 15, 2023
Can The President Just Use the 14th To Pay the Debt? [From 2014]
May 11, 2023
Men will Walk Upright and Children Will Laugh! The Risks of Prohibition
May 08, 2023
The Supreme Court Story of Abe Fortas
Apr 22, 2023
Introducing - Founding Son: John Quincy's America
Apr 13, 2023
Presidents In Trouble
Apr 10, 2023
FDR is Saved, Sidney Poitier, Lunar Bases and The Sugar Lobby
Apr 03, 2023
Infringe: The History of a Word and The Gun Debate
Mar 30, 2023
FALL OF USSR: Bonus "Bloknot" (Notebook) Episode
Mar 20, 2023
FALL OF USSR: Part 6 - Two Bears in a Cave
Mar 06, 2023
FALL OF USSR: Part 5 - I Cannot Forsake Principles!
Feb 27, 2023
FALL OF USSR: Part 4 - Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Feb 20, 2023
FALL OF USSR: Part 3 - Athens vs. Sparta
Feb 13, 2023
FALL OF USSR: Part 2 - The Steam Bath of History
Feb 08, 2023
FALL OF USSR: Part 1: Wake Up, Cassandra!
Feb 06, 2023
About Classified Documents and Politics, and our upcoming USSR cast
Feb 01, 2023
A Sense of Humor as a Weapon - Vice President Thomas Marshall
Jan 27, 2023
"Wrong Forever on the Throne!" - William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic Party in His Later Years
Jan 18, 2023
Speaker Election of 1855, 20th Amendment and a Show Update
Jan 08, 2023
We Need to Talk. About the 72nd Congress.
Dec 26, 2022
Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge
Dec 22, 2022
Inflation vs. Space: How The Cost of Things Limited the Space Program
Dec 20, 2022
Leap to Freedom: Hans Konrad Schumann's Story
Dec 13, 2022
Drinking With FDR
Dec 12, 2022
The Mystery of the Black Bands on the Goalposts? and Other Stories
Dec 05, 2022
Soccer and Repression: The 1978 World Cup in Argentina
Dec 02, 2022
Close Encounters of the Congress Kind: Times When the House Membership was Close Between the Parties
Nov 28, 2022
The Youth Vote: John Lennon's Dream, Nixon's Nightmare
Nov 21, 2022
One Vote Grant Didn't Want
Nov 18, 2022
You Can't Always Get What You Want? The 2022 Midterm Result, and Listener Questions
Nov 12, 2022
Once Upon a Time in Westminster
Nov 06, 2022
Something Happened: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Primary Run
Oct 31, 2022
Lonely Midterm, 1970
Oct 17, 2022
Nineteen Seventies Ephemera
Oct 02, 2022
Savings and Loan Crisis
Sep 27, 2022
Midterms: They Don't Always Work Out Badly for Presidents (But Mostly They Do)
Sep 23, 2022
Whiskey, Ice and Federal-State Powers
Sep 18, 2022
That Time when John. F. Kennedy Ran for Vice President
Sep 04, 2022
Truman's Vice: Alben Barkley and the Creation of the "Veep"
Aug 31, 2022
The Force that Could Not Be Stopped
Aug 29, 2022
And to the Republic: Thoughts about Everything Going on in Politics
Aug 27, 2022
Now That's The Right Way to Lose an Election
Aug 21, 2022
Benevolent Policeman? The History of Congressional Committees
Aug 15, 2022
"We Gotta Go and Never Stop Going!" The Modern American Year of 1948
Aug 07, 2022
Smiling Like He Meant It: Vice President Schuyler Colfax
Aug 04, 2022
Small Money and Big Hope / Dasher's Run
Aug 02, 2022
Martyr or Villain?: Thomas A. Hendricks
Aug 01, 2022
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics on C-SPAN - July 30th, 9:15AM - also midterms and inflation.
Jul 27, 2022
Wills On Duty: The Story of Watergate Security Guard Frank Wills
Jul 24, 2022
A Midterm Election About Nothing, and Other Stories
Jul 10, 2022
George B. McClellan Junior Would Like a Word
Jul 04, 2022
About That War of 1812
Jun 27, 2022
Presenting: History Is Us
Jun 22, 2022
Nixon Versus Plywood, and Other Presidential Inflation Stories
Jun 20, 2022
Introducing: History Daily Podcast (Story of D.B. Cooper / The Treaty of Ghent Ending the War of 1812)
Jun 14, 2022
The Underrated Patrick Henry
Jun 13, 2022
Lincoln Over Easy - A Look at a President's Image
Jun 12, 2022
So, There Was No Smoke-Filled Room After All? And Other Presidential Election Stories.
Jun 09, 2022
The Zinger That Saved America: Daniel Webster's Reply to Hayne
Jun 02, 2022
What's Going on Across the Pond w/ Steve Byrne of What Am Politics Podcast
Jun 01, 2022
Free Speech is Easy, and Hard w/ Lynn Greenky of Syracuse University School of Law
May 22, 2022
Nine Kings, One Room: Introducing the Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast
May 18, 2022
Stare Decisis and Spider Man, and Other Stories
May 16, 2022
History of a History: Ken Burn's "The Civil War"
May 09, 2022
Like the Visions of a Fever: America in Pre-War 1941
Apr 25, 2022
Politics and Margarine
Apr 22, 2022
In The Arena - Adlai Stevenson and Other Losing Candidates w/ Peter Shea
Apr 18, 2022
Didn't Mean to Make a Country: First Congress, 1774
Apr 11, 2022
The Man Who Saved Biden, And Other Stories
Apr 06, 2022
Ukraine and History w/ Ben Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State and "The Road to Now Podcast"
Mar 30, 2022
Millions Fall: The Destruction of Trees During The Civil War / Taft and Television
Mar 27, 2022
The War in the Former Yugoslavia (Bosnian War) and the Dayton Accords, w/ Alex Hastie of "Ohio v. The World" Podcast
Mar 14, 2022
The Anguish of Calvin Coolidge ( w/ David Priess )
Mar 07, 2022
Abyssinia: The Italian-Ethiopian War and its Consequences
Mar 01, 2022
Congressional Stock Trading and The Pan-Electric Scandal
Feb 21, 2022
I'll Take Presidents and Canadian Prime Ministers For $1000.
Feb 17, 2022
Ramsay MacDonald / What Happened to the Gold Standard?
Feb 14, 2022
The "Send a Dime" Chain Letters of 1935 and The Lost Subway System
Feb 07, 2022
Listener Questions: Jan 6th, Gingrich, Inflation, Free Speech, Medical Speech, Rogan Controversy, Size of The House
Feb 02, 2022
Judge Lincoln, Orval Faubus and Bill Clinton, Millard Fillmore
Jan 30, 2022
The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and Other Disasters
Jan 27, 2022
The Iranian Side of Iran Contra, Gladstone and Disraeli, Cranks at the White House, Unknown Facts About Presidents
Jan 23, 2022
The History Behind a Holiday: Martin Luther King Day
Jan 17, 2022
Drug Legalization Before it Was Cool: The Story of Kurt Schmoke
Jan 10, 2022
Disorder at the Capitol in History
Jan 05, 2022
The Forgotten Forage War of 1777: Realities of the Revolution
Jan 03, 2022
Tricornes and Tomahawks - Realities of the Revolution Part I
Dec 27, 2021
About Those Hessians: Realities of the Revolution
Dec 24, 2021
Shooting Behind Trees? Realities of The Revolution
Dec 20, 2021
What Would Cicero Say? Interview with Professor Rob Goodman of Ryerson University on Speech Issues, Modern and Ancient
Dec 17, 2021
Lincoln on Infrastructure
Dec 13, 2021
Harris and the Vice Presidency in a Historical Context
Dec 11, 2021
The 1890's Part IV: Imperialism Just Happened
Dec 06, 2021
Near-President Bob Dole? Biden v. Dukakis, Gary Hart Tries to Save America, For Real and Other Fables of the 1988 Election
Dec 05, 2021
The 1890's Part III: No, Not That Winston Churchill
Nov 29, 2021
The 1890's Part II: Tin Man
Nov 22, 2021
The 1890's: Part I : Mauve Decade
Nov 15, 2021
Inflation Gardens and Other Stories
Nov 04, 2021
News Stories From 1921 That Matter Today - with Jon Blackwell
Nov 01, 2021
Ashamed in the Day of Judgment - Resistance to Jackson Indian Removal Policy in its Time
Oct 25, 2021
The Miserable Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President
Oct 18, 2021
The Anti-Masonic Party and Conspiracy Theory Politics Old & New
Oct 11, 2021
Elephant in the Room: Former Presidents and Their Parties
Oct 04, 2021
Joe Manchins of History, Clinton's 50-50 Senate, and Harold Wilson's 1970's Virtual School
Oct 04, 2021
Biden, Crime Bill, How and Why He Was Elected and More: Interview w/ The Political Darkside Podcast
Sep 27, 2021
Grover Cleveland Cake and Other Stories
Sep 20, 2021
Andrew Carnegie Questions
Sep 14, 2021
Snack, Dessert, Dinner, Supper: The Paris Peace Accords
Sep 06, 2021
Mike Duncan on The Marquis de Lafayette and His Two Worlds
Aug 30, 2021
D.C. Representation: A Love Story
Aug 23, 2021
Saigon Comparisons: The Events of April 29th and 30th 1975 and Today
Aug 19, 2021
Charles Dawes: The Anti-Filibustering Musician Vice-President
Aug 09, 2021
Richard Bey of "The Richard Bey Show" on Cancel Culture, Iraq War, The Alamo and The Truth - 15th Anniversary Episode Part II
Jul 28, 2021
15th Anniversary Show Part I: Speaking w/ Listeners, Reviewing Clips of Past Episodes - James Monroe and Lyndon Johnson and More
Jul 25, 2021
Afghanistan - The Soviet War
Jul 16, 2021
Vaccines Then and Now
Jul 15, 2021
What You May Not Know About Lexington and Concord
Jul 13, 2021
Dennis Kucinich on Public Service, Public Power and His Book - "The Division of Light and Power'
Jul 12, 2021
The Man in the Cave and Other Stories of the Signers of The Declaration of Independence
Jul 04, 2021
1866 Mechanics Institute Attack
Jun 17, 2021
Hannibal Hamlin Stood Up: A Look At an Overlooked Vice President
Jun 10, 2021
Terrible Tuesday 1987 (The Ark of Commerce, Part 6b)
Jun 02, 2021
On The Lincoln Train: The 13-Day Journey of a President-Elect
Jun 01, 2021
Black Monday 1987 and The Shock of Risk (Final Ark of Commerce Series, Part 6a)
May 23, 2021
American Epidemic: Philadelphia's Yellow Fever of 1793
May 21, 2021
We've Got Problems. We've Always Had Problems.
May 08, 2021
1995: A Story of Politics On The Information Superhighway
May 01, 2021
Leftovers From the Black Monday and Terrible Tuesday Casts.
May 01, 2021
Leftovers from the Mechanics Institute Attack Podcast Episode - About Mayor Monroe and Lt. Governor Dunn
Apr 22, 2021
The Man Behind the UN Who Never Got Credit - Edward Stettinius, Jr. w/Bill Scher
Apr 20, 2021
Golden Beauty Boss: Madame Sara Spencer Washington w/ Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
Apr 05, 2021
The Young Dick Cheney
Mar 31, 2021
1921 - One Hundred Years Ago
Mar 24, 2021
The 25th Amendment, Section Four Explained, w/ Brian C. Kalt
Mar 19, 2021
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
Mar 18, 2021
Mario Cuomo is Not Running: A Tale of Politics
Mar 15, 2021
Cholera and Benjamin Harrison
Mar 12, 2021
Unfriending From Jefferson and Adams, to today
Mar 11, 2021
Statue Removal: National Valhalla: Statues, Confederates, Slaveowners, Washington, Trump, Memory and Time
Mar 10, 2021
Elvis Meets Nixon - The Insider Story
Mar 10, 2021
You Break Everybody's Back Part II: The 1988 Election
Mar 05, 2021
You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Election - Part One
Mar 04, 2021
Enemies: Nixon Goes to China
Feb 19, 2021
George Romney
Feb 18, 2021
16 Obscure Facts About Presidents w/ Jeremy Anderberg of The Art of Manliness and Readmorebooks.co
Feb 14, 2021
Calvin Coolidge Became Somebody
Feb 01, 2021
The Power to Pardon
Jan 17, 2021
Alcatraz: The American Indian Movement
Jan 14, 2021
Why is There an Electoral College?
Jan 13, 2021
Democracy w/ Dr. Paul Cartledge of Cambridge University: The Life, and Hopefully Not Death, of Democracy (2017)
Jan 09, 2021
The Original Adlai Stevenson, Cleveland's 2nd Vice President
Jan 06, 2021
Your TV Lied To You...All About Presidential Scandals
Jan 04, 2021
The Story of Samantha Smith
Jan 01, 2021
Masks Then and Now, 1960 Election Presidents Leaving and Not Leaving Oval, Also 14 Years of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Dec 31, 2020
Geeks, Orcs and Herbert Hoover
Dec 31, 2020
I Don't Want to Trick You: The Lyndon Johnson - Richard Nixon Presidential Transition, and Other Stories
Dec 29, 2020
There Must Be Some Trick in It - Constitution Advocates Take on Conspiracy: Madison, Wilson, "Mr Union" and Others.
Dec 25, 2020
Etiquette and Social Media: Where are Our Manners? Social Etiquette from Ben Franklin to Dale Carnegie to Today, w Jessica Weisberg
Dec 18, 2020
Pirates and America, w/ Rebecca Simon, Author of "Why We Love Pirates"
Dec 17, 2020
Why Do Nebraska and Maine Vote for President The Way They Do? And Other Esoterica of The 2020 Election
Dec 12, 2020
Did Nixon Win the Popular Vote in 1960? And Other Stories
Dec 07, 2020
The Creation of Children: Child Labor in the U.S. and Child Labor Laws
Dec 02, 2020
Flotsam and Jetsam of the 2020 Election
Dec 01, 2020
I Am James Buchanan
Nov 26, 2020
Post Election Talk w/ Chris Novembrino of Dont Worry About the Government
Nov 26, 2020
Kent State: After the Bullets
Nov 17, 2020
You Must Run if Drafted: Blaine and General Sherman, McKinley and Admiral Dewey
Nov 09, 2020
Notes of 1884: Thoughts on That Election, and the Current One
Nov 09, 2020
The 1796 Presidential Election: Placing us in a Point of Opposition to Each Other
Oct 30, 2020
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
Oct 25, 2020
What You Haven't Been Told About The 1860 Election: Houston vs. Lincoln, Woke Volunteers, Fossil Politicians and More
Oct 21, 2020
The "Gaffe-a-thon" of the 1976 Election
Oct 19, 2020
Dewey Gets Mad: Another Look at the 1948 Election
Oct 15, 2020
The Fifth Debate That Never Happened - 1960
Oct 09, 2020
Blaine's Faint, Washington's Flu, Defoe's London and SARS: Stories of Health and Sickness and Politics
Oct 07, 2020
John W. Davis Also Ran
Oct 06, 2020
Earl Warren Replacement, Election Year SCOTUS Battles, Mario Cuomo and Court Packing
Sep 20, 2020
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
Sep 17, 2020
George Washington's English Ancestors, Coolidge's Electric Horse and Other Stories
Sep 15, 2020
All That Stuff Before the Debate Happens
Sep 08, 2020
"It Looked Like Hell" - The Story of The 1980 DNC Convention w/ Rick Perlstein, Author of 'Reaganland'
Aug 18, 2020
A Mystery of The 1992 Election: Did Clinton Win, Or Did Perot Put Him in Office?
Aug 13, 2020
Granting of Certiorari: The Hidden Process Behind the Supreme Court
Aug 12, 2020
Top 10 Worst VP Picks in History
Aug 11, 2020
What the Old Country America Was Like, per William Monks
Aug 11, 2020
Most Effective Political Convention Ever? New York, 1976 DNC
Jul 27, 2020
Bruce Interviewed on Intellectual Property...Frequently Podcast with David Pridham and Brad Sheafe
Jul 15, 2020
King Corn, Story of Ethanol (from 2013)
Jul 14, 2020
Valley Forge Myth and Reality - Interview with Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Authors of Valley Forge
Jul 10, 2020
Operation Eagle Claw and the 1979 Iran Embassy Storming
Jul 02, 2020
Partisanship, 1850's Style w/ Josh Mensch, co-author of The Lincoln Conspiracy
Jul 01, 2020
A Powder Keg About to Explode: Newark, NJ 1967
Jun 08, 2020
The Cabinet, George Washington's Creation, with Lindsay M. Chervinsky
May 26, 2020
What The Great Depression Felt Like, And Other Things
May 17, 2020
Protests: The Whole World is Watching - Chicago 1968
May 13, 2020
History's Nine Most Insane Rulers w Scott Rank of "History Unplugged" Podcast
May 12, 2020
Rules of Political Debate: Godwin's Law is Not a Law
May 01, 2020
Eyewitness to Kent State Shootings: Paula Stone Tucker
May 01, 2020
Measure Everything: Ark of Commerce Part 5
Apr 19, 2020
Make It Stop: When Commerce Stopped (Ark of Commerce Part 4 Replay)
Apr 18, 2020
Truman, the Marshall Plan and the 1948 Election w/ A.J. Baime
Apr 02, 2020
Stop Carter: A Story of 1976 Politics
Mar 23, 2020
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion - The 3 Words That Changed Presidential History
Mar 18, 2020
The Spanish Flu of 1918 and Its Aftermath - Conversation with Laura Spinney
Mar 02, 2020
Iowa, Impeachment and the Universe
Feb 02, 2020
Too Minnesota Nice - Examining 1968 Even Closer
Feb 02, 2020
Skokie, Neo-Nazis and Free Speech
Jan 24, 2020
The Surprising, Perhaps, History of Martin Luther King Day
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
Jan 18, 2020
Truman's Mild Support of JFK
Jan 17, 2020
Mister 22 and Mister 24: Grover Cleveland
Jan 01, 2020
Impeachment - Conversation with David Priess and Bruce Carlson
Dec 02, 2019
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"
Dec 02, 2019
Lincoln and Zachary Taylor
Nov 18, 2019
A Deep Dive into The Emancipation Proclamation
Nov 14, 2019
Switching VIces
Nov 11, 2019
Butterfield: Nixon’s Watergate Frenemy
Nov 05, 2019
The Mystery of Impeachment - How it Works, What Happened in 1868 and More
Oct 20, 2019
Beam Me Up: The James Traficant Story w/ Alex Hastie of The Ohio v. The World Podcast
Oct 20, 2019
Bruce Talks About Everything, Dem Debates Trump 2020 and Clinton 1996, Supreme Court
Oct 01, 2019
Brown vs. The Board of Education
Sep 10, 2019
Brexit, Boris and UK and Irish Politics w/ Steven Byrne from What am Politics
Aug 31, 2019
Holden Caufield and Xerox: The Corporate Personhood Debate (from 2013)
Aug 20, 2019
How to Rank The Presidents, with Susan Swain and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN
Jul 24, 2019
Colonel Franklin - Benjamin Franklin's Decision to Use Force (from THEY SIGNED PODCAST)
Jun 28, 2019
The Ark of Commerce Part IV: Make It Stop
May 23, 2019
Sedition, Presidents and the Press
May 01, 2019
Surprising Facts About Accidental Presidents - Interview w Jared Cohen
Apr 19, 2019
Young Jefferson, Signer of The Declaration and Other Virginia Signers (FROM THEY SIGNED PODCAST)
Apr 01, 2019
Third Parties: The Moped and the Maserati - Why Third Parties Haven't Won in American Politics
Mar 20, 2019
Woodrow Wilson Has No Friends: Wilson, His Politics and His Image Today with Patricia O'Toole
Mar 18, 2019
The Slaughter Could Not Be Ignored -
Mar 15, 2019
The Making of the Franklin Pierce Cast
Mar 01, 2019
Nixon in Full
Feb 20, 2019
LBJ 's Cell Phone and His Decision to Jump on the Ticket in 1960
Feb 20, 2019
Interview with Sidney Blumenthal - Putting Lincoln in a Political Context, Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, The Whigs and More
Feb 12, 2019
28 Minutes: A Classic Debate Moment of Silence
Feb 01, 2019
Mexico's Contribution to World War II and Other Stories
Jan 07, 2019
The Shays Rebellion and Its Implications
Jan 05, 2019
Investigating the Executive Branch: The Trial of Thomas Jefferson, Governor
Jan 02, 2019
Searching for Eisenhower: Ike on War, Civil Rights, Big Government and Political Moderation (with William Hitchcock)
Jan 01, 2019
Economy and Jobs: Debunking "The Good Old Days" Argument with Gregg Easterbrook
Jan 01, 2019
The Ark of Commerce, Part III: Loco
Dec 29, 2018
Curtis LeMay, Warrior, Candidate - with Alex Hastie of Ohio v. The World Podcast
Dec 28, 2018
LBJ and The Creation of Medicare - 50 Years Ago
Dec 28, 2018
The Ark of Commerce, Part II: Two If By Sea
Dec 28, 2018
The Ark of Commerce - Part I: Crash Party
Dec 27, 2018
The Craziest Speaker of The House Election, Indian Removal Petitions and Other Thoughts
Dec 25, 2018
Saturday Night Nixon: The Firing That Sealed Watergate
Dec 17, 2018
George H.W. Bush, 03 30 81
Dec 02, 2018
Presidents After Midterms with Matt K. Lewis
Nov 20, 2018
David Priess on the Realities of Impeachment and the History of Presidential Removal
Nov 14, 2018
The Black Bands on the Goal Post -'Leftovers' from the Argentina 1978 Episode
Nov 07, 2018
Posse Comitatus and Billy The Kid
Nov 04, 2018
Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The American Mind
Oct 16, 2018
About That Court-Packing Idea. SCOTUS Discussion Part II w/ Chris Novembrino
Oct 16, 2018
Healthcare: Doctor Nixon, President Nixon on Healthcare
Sep 18, 2018
Presidential Scandals: Watergate, Whiskey Ring and Others
Sep 03, 2018
Midterms: They Don't Always Work Out Badly for Presidents (But Mostly They Do)
Aug 06, 2018
Leon Neyfakh of The 'Slow Burn' Podcast on Watergate and Whitewater
Aug 01, 2018
War: 1983 and How Close We Came to Nuclear War w/ Marc Ambinder
Jul 29, 2018
Tariffs: Smoot - The Man Behind the Tariff
Jul 28, 2018
RFK Anniversary: Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy and the Missing Element in Today's Politics
Jul 28, 2018
Wild Times in the North Dakota Bakken Fields w/ Maya Rao = Dark Side of Booms Part 2:
Jul 22, 2018
Russia: Everything You Know About The Russian Revolution is Wrong - Russian Journalist Mikhail Zygar on 1917, History, Putin, Democracy and More
Jul 18, 2018
Gerrymandering: Gerry and His "Mander" (from 2013, with an Update on Gerrymandering Supreme Court case)
Jul 18, 2018
Good Economic Times: The Dark Side of Booms: The 1920s
Jul 17, 2018
Civil War Bonds - The Importance of Commerce to the Civil War
Jul 10, 2018
Soccer and Repression: 1978 and the World Cup in Argentina
Jul 08, 2018
Tariffs: Taft Walks Away - The Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909
Jun 10, 2018
Marc Ambinder on Being a White House Correspondent
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
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
May 14, 2018
Rigged Elections: That Time the DNC Rigged a Nomination
Apr 26, 2018
America and Rome: w/ Mike Duncan
Apr 01, 2018
Movies and Politics: Writing History With Lightning: The Controversial Mix of Movies and Politics and History
Apr 01, 2018
Presidential Power: Democracy's Diet? The Two-Term Presidential Limit of the 22nd Amendment
Feb 27, 2018
U.S.-Mexico Relations w/ Bob Crawford and Ben Sawyer of "The Road to Now " Podcast Live in Mexico
Feb 24, 2018
Where's Reagan? Reagan in Our Politics Today - The Final of the Dozen Ronald Reagans Series - Episode Twelve
Jan 22, 2018
Did Reagan Win the Cold War? A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Episode Eleven
Jan 21, 2018
Year of the Missile: Reagan's First Term Cold War Steps - A Dozen Ronald Reagans, Part 10
Jan 20, 2018
Shockwave 1981 - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Nine
Jan 11, 2018
White House on Fire: Iran Contra - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part 8 -REPLAY
Jan 09, 2018
Reformation: Tax Reform , Immigration, S&Ls - A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Seven
Jan 06, 2018
Hands Across America:: A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Six
Jan 04, 2018
1976 Convention: A Dozen Ronald Reagans - Part Five
Jan 02, 2018
That "Other Part" of The Declaration of Independence: The Grievances and What They Say About Executive Power, Immigration, and Other Issues
Jan 01, 2018
A Telephone Scandal, and People Giving Their Money to the Treasury
Jan 01, 2018
Witches' Brew: Central America, Lebanon, Poland - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Four
Dec 31, 2017
Rubik's Cube: Two Reagan Mysteries Solved - A Dozen Ronald Reagans: Part Three -
Dec 29, 2017
A Taxing Second Year - A Dozen Ronald Reagans Part Two
Dec 26, 2017
Rawhide is OK - First of Our Series on a 'Dozen Ronald Reagans'
Dec 23, 2017
The Making of A Dozen Ronald Reagans
Dec 20, 2017
Briefing Ronald Reagan
Dec 18, 2017
Bruce Takes Twenty Questions on History and Politics
Nov 09, 2017
What if there was no Constitution? Emoluments, Tariffs, the 17th
Nov 02, 2017
Rutherford B Hayes Presidency
Oct 24, 2017
President by Accident: Truman, Atomic Warfare, Russians and Trump w/ A.J. Baime
Oct 17, 2017
A Question on Multiple Impeachments, from 2017
Oct 04, 2017
The Grand Ol' Democratic Party?
Oct 03, 2017
How JFK's Death was Felt in The Soviet Union
Oct 02, 2017
Patrick Henry, Underrated Founder - Interview with Jon Kukla
Sep 05, 2017
The Split on The Left of Politics and Why it Matters, w/ Chris Novembrino
Aug 22, 2017
Elvis Presley and America
Aug 15, 2017
Sinking of the Lusitania
Aug 09, 2017
The Sculptor, The Activist and The Senator - More Characters from Andrew Johnson's 1868 Impeachment
Aug 01, 2017
Written Out of History? Robert Yates, Luther Martin, Mercy Otis Warren
Aug 01, 2017
Charleston 1860 and Secession: Interview with Paul Starobin
Jul 22, 2017
John Jay's Horse , George Washington's Mill and the Emoluments Clause
Jul 08, 2017
Interview with Kevin Lacz, Decorated Navy SEAL and Star of "American Sniper"
Jun 23, 2017
The Strange Story of John Morrissey
Jun 14, 2017
A Bit About Gorsuch
Jun 13, 2017
We Almost Got Rid of the Vice Presidency
May 29, 2017
Public Sector vs. Blue Collar Unions and Other Questiions
May 29, 2017
It's Not Common to Be Unconstitutional
May 28, 2017
Lincoln Over Easy: The Creation of a President's Image
May 20, 2017
Explaining Brexit and The U.K Election to Americans – Conversation with Stephen Byrne of WhatAmPolitics Podcast
May 16, 2017
Bryan On the Tariff
May 06, 2017
Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court
Apr 13, 2017
The President’s Book of Secrets: Interview with David Priess
Apr 02, 2017
That Time When a Presidential Candidate Actually Was Bugged
Mar 04, 2017
How to Use George Washington in a Debate
Feb 28, 2017
Interview w/ John Avlon, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast, Author of Washington’s Farewell
Feb 13, 2017
The First Hundred Days from Wilson to Trump
Feb 05, 2017
How Mandates Were Invented
Jan 30, 2017
The Census - The Original Big Data
Jan 26, 2017
The (Very Few) Rejected Cabinet Choices
Jan 11, 2017
Emerson Ethridge - The Man Who Tried to Steal Congress
Jan 09, 2017
Russian Intelligence and Control from Soviet Times to Putin
Jan 01, 2017
Were Nazis Right or Left?
Jan 01, 2017
Fib That American President Creates Jobs
Dec 01, 2016
More Post Election Thoughts (2016)
Nov 24, 2016
Why Do Vice Presidents Out Number Presidents? And Other Questions?
Nov 24, 2016
The 2016 Election, Taken with a Swig of History
Nov 10, 2016
Bruce Carlson Interviewed on the Road to Now
Nov 07, 2016
The Real Story of the 1948 Election
Nov 01, 2016
Nasty Campaign Attacks, Set to Jazz Music
Oct 27, 2016
Navy Blue Nixon and Other Stories
Oct 13, 2016
1884: A Very Unpleasant Election - Cleveland vs. Blaine
Oct 02, 2016
Walter Jenkins and the 1964 Election
Sep 29, 2016
Concession
Sep 14, 2016
The Incredibly Shrinking Fourth
Sep 05, 2016
In the End You Become Yourself: Talk with Chris Novembrino of Dont Worry About the Government
Aug 17, 2016
Bob Seeger and the Steelworker - Manufacturing vs. Service in Political Debates
Aug 02, 2016
1840 -Clowns With Pink Noses and Lofty Tumbling
Jul 07, 2016
Rottenborough Delegates: A Quirk in Party Nominations From Lincoln to Trump
Jul 07, 2016
Schedule of Conventions: Why is the GOP Convention First, Democrats Second, Brexit Other Topics.
Jun 16, 2016
Bruce Carlson Interviewed on DWATG Cast - Trump VP, Conventions, If Biden Had Run, and More
May 25, 2016
The First Presidential Farewell
May 11, 2016
How Much Did The Hostage Issue Affect 1980 Election: One Take
May 11, 2016
The "Manhattan Project" in the Clinton 1992 Campaign
May 09, 2016
Madison Can't Get a Seat at the Starbucks, and How to Read a Constitution
Mar 09, 2016
The Fib That Your Side is Going to Win
Mar 09, 2016
Scots Irish in American History and Politics
Jan 21, 2016
Huey Long and Trump, Vetoes, and Other Stories
Jan 19, 2016
The Craziest Speaker Election Ever and Other Ephemra
Dec 20, 2015
Why Did the Founders, Signers, Framers Wear Wigs And Other Stories... (FROM THEY SIGNED PODCAST)
Dec 15, 2015
LIncoln Goes to China
Nov 25, 2015
How Wilson Carried Ohio in 1916, and Other Listener Questions
Nov 19, 2015
Damned Fool Mistake: Eisenhower's Real Feelings About the Supreme Court
Oct 21, 2015
The Man Who Saved Boston But Never Got Credit, Also - the Last Lincoln?
Oct 15, 2015
Pigasus and Odd Presidential Candidates (2015)
Jun 16, 2015
Representation: A History
Jun 15, 2015
Mad Man Finale, 1980 Election and Many Other Side Dishes
May 20, 2015
Your Inner Karl Rove
Feb 01, 2015
The War Powers Act (from 2011)
Jan 21, 2015
The Return and Return of Nativism
Jan 06, 2015
Social Security Had Its Glitches Too
Dec 25, 2014
Midterm Defeats and Presidential Coattail in Previous Election
Dec 11, 2014
They Shall from Time to Time?: History of The Opposition Answer to President's SOTU
Sep 03, 2014
The Fitzsimmons Challenge: How a 1790's Race Got Nasty and Maybe Started a Trend
Aug 15, 2014
Logan Act
Jul 16, 2014
History of Education in the US and Other Thoughts
Feb 02, 2014
King's Rook: When the President's Party Has the Senate, Not the House
Feb 02, 2014
What's All This Talk About Swapping Horses?
Oct 10, 2013
Wilson Battles with is own Secretary of State, and Other Stories
Aug 01, 2013
Abolish the Senate!
Apr 05, 2013
DC Statehood - from 2013
Jan 02, 2013
Second Terms Worst Than the First
Jan 02, 2013
Transitions from one President to Another
Dec 05, 2012
Debates Matter Because They Do
Nov 23, 2012
A Bunch of Topics, VP Hobart, Deportation
Oct 04, 2012
The Key Bridge Factor
Sep 19, 2012
Losing VP Candidates
Aug 09, 2012
Strange Days at Conventions
Aug 01, 2012
Why The 1916 Election Matters
Jun 07, 2012
Events of 1916
Jun 06, 2012
Did the Founders Care if We Starve?
Jun 03, 2012
Wendell Willkie and a Lighting Nomination
Mar 12, 2012
In Which the Winner of the '12 Election is Revealed
Mar 03, 2012
FDR's Newsreels, Coolidge's Microphone - Presidents and Their Fave Media
Feb 02, 2012
The Whole 'Do Nothing Congress' Gambit
Jan 01, 2012
A Cast from 2011 - Obama, Egypt, More..
Oct 10, 2011
The Boston Police Strike of 1919 and Public Sector Unions
Jun 27, 2011
Game Time in Politics and The Court
Jun 08, 2011
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's Way of Writing
Jun 06, 2011
Tucson Shooting and American Political Violence
May 12, 2011
A Little About Anarchism
May 04, 2011
Does the Challenger Even Matter?
Feb 20, 2011
Does a President Lose the Presidency When they Lose the House? "The 2 Year Ditch" of American Politics
Dec 11, 2010
Autopsy of a Midterm 2010
Nov 18, 2010
The Forgotten Other Great Depression (1893)
Oct 11, 2010
Clayton's Meetings and Other Thoughts
Oct 07, 2010
Bicameral Thoughts: Reflection on the 2010 Midterm Results
Sep 16, 2010
Heller Decision on Guns and the 2A
Sep 13, 2010
Should A President Campaign in Midterms?
Sep 01, 2010
Social Security, Civil War Pensions
Mar 16, 2010
Al Haig and Other Stories
Mar 15, 2010
How the Battle for California Statehood Defined America
Mar 01, 2010
Nobel Prize, Clue of '62? Minicare
Jan 10, 2010
Is Healthcare a "Second Third Rail" of American Politics?
Jan 10, 2010
How Primary Became a Verb
Jan 03, 2010
Famous Brokered Conventions
Jan 01, 2010
You Don't Take on Sitting Presidents Anymore, Because of 2 Elections
Jan 01, 2010
The Aughts the Ohs, Burr, Fox, Cuba, Taxes
Jan 01, 2010
What George W. Bush Says for Himself - A Brief Read of Decision Points
Oct 10, 2009
Incredible Passages - Passing BIg Legislation is Not Easy
Sep 09, 2009
History of the Primaries
Sep 08, 2009
Obama and Bush Compared (2009)
Aug 11, 2009
The Terrible Twos?
Aug 08, 2009
Presidents in Times of Anxiety
Jun 01, 2009
Did Stimulus Work? (2009)
Jun 01, 2009
Souter, Torture Memos, Tun Tavern and the Marines, and Other Listener Questions
May 04, 2009
Assessing TARP
Mar 10, 2009
'Squeaker' Re-elections
Mar 03, 2009
Pennsylvania Swing State
Feb 10, 2009
Ex Presidents
Feb 09, 2009
Washington's First Year 1789
Feb 01, 2009
Beer and Politics, Tea and Taxes, and Other Listener Questions
Jan 01, 2009
An Historic Election, for Many Reasons, Episode from 2008
Dec 02, 2008
Hillary Clinton as SecState, Obama's Chances in 2012, Chester Arthur and Other Listener Questions
Dec 01, 2008
Election of 2008 Review, with an eye to history
Dec 01, 2008
Flotsam and Jetsom of the 2008 Election
Nov 12, 2008
Why Cant We Lean on a Shovel?
Nov 11, 2008
Financial Panics in America
Nov 08, 2008
Obama Picks Biden for VP - Other Topics (2008)
Sep 17, 2008
Guns and 2nd Amendment (2008)
Sep 09, 2008
Monroe's First Year as President - 1817
Aug 20, 2008
Drifting into Military Involvement in Lebanon 1983 and Mexico 1913
Aug 14, 2008
All About Coattails -Does the President Wear a Coat, or a Windbreaker?
Aug 02, 2008
Ferraro
Aug 01, 2008
The Palin Pick (2008)
Jul 24, 2008
Staying in Iraq, Staying in Vietnam
Jun 19, 2008
Missouri - The Show Me Swing State
Jun 12, 2008
Filibuster-Proof Majorities, Palin and Teddy, Why Look at History, Whigs: Listener Questions#9
Jun 05, 2008
History Picks the President 2008
May 14, 2008
Charles II is Messing With Us, And Other Stories
May 12, 2008
President of the Senate
Apr 10, 2008
Fifth and Market Moment - Jefferson and Adams, President and Vice President at Odds
Feb 07, 2008
Tax Cuts - Historical Perspective
Feb 02, 2008
Old Dominion
Jan 13, 2008
Fixing the Primaries
Jan 09, 2008
"Super Duper" Tuesday
Jan 01, 2008
British Prime Ministers and US Presidents
Dec 01, 2007
Survivor Island and the Bill of Rights
Nov 22, 2007
Gerald Ford and His Times
Oct 11, 2007
Three-Way Elections
Aug 08, 2007
The Constitutional Conventioneers
May 19, 2007
Jefferson and Adams Letters - What Did They Write To Each Other?
May 14, 2007
History of Objectivity in the Media
Apr 10, 2007
The Veto Override
Mar 04, 2007
American Zig Zag on Immigration Policy
Feb 03, 2007
The History of the Federal Reserve
Jan 20, 2007
The Veto and its History
Jan 12, 2007
Forty Years of One Party In Congress
Jan 01, 2007
All About Polls
Nov 01, 2006
Nevada and its Politics
Sep 21, 2006
History of Fannie Mae
Sep 15, 2006
Objectivity and The Media (2006)
Sep 06, 2006
Filibuster: A Brief History
Sep 01, 2006
How Do You End A War?
Aug 17, 2006
Abe Lincoln That NeoCon, That Liberal...
Aug 16, 2006
A History of Speakers of The House
Aug 01, 2006
Presidents and the Media - Coddling, Manipulating from Lincoln to Bush
Jul 02, 2006
Has Television Really Changed Politics? An Examination (from 2006)
Jul 01, 2006