My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
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
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Does the Challenger Even Matter?
The last days of Ford and Carter 76 illustrates how close an election can get when the President is not popular but not unpopular. When it's a sitting President - does the person the party picks even matter or is it all about the Incumbent?...
62 min
252
The Forgotten Other Great Depression (1893)
40 min
253
Heller Decision on Guns and the 2A
looking at the decision, its meaning, its interpretation.
30 min
254
Social Security, Civil War Pensions
While Social Security was developed in the 1930's, it's possible to say that there were always some mechanisms for older persons, though not universal ones.
36 min
255
How the Battle for California Statehood Define...
All About Statehood. What it means, how did Hawaii and Alaska get added, why aren't there more states?
43 min
256
How Primary Became a Verb
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25 min
257
Famous Brokered Conventions
from 2008
51 min
258
What George W. Bush Says for Himself - A Brief ...
we look at former President Bush's memoir.
16 min
259
History of the Primaries
History of the Primaries
18 min
260
The Terrible Twos?
Second years just seem to bring trouble...
30 min
261
Did Stimulus Work? (2009)
19 min
262
An Historic Election, for Many Reasons, Episode...
About the 2008 Election
31 min
263
Election of 2008 Review, with an eye to history
Why did the 2008 election go the way it did? we look at that.
36 min
264
Flotsam and Jetsom of the 2008 Election
The 2008 Election was big news, but a lot of little news happened too.
18 min
265
Why Cant We Lean on a Shovel?
Would a WPA style program work in modern times?
42 min
266
Financial Panics in America
a look at America's financial panics
41 min
267
Guns and 2nd Amendment (2008)
a look at the origins of the Second
26 min
268
Monroe's First Year as President - 1817
15 min
269
Drifting into Military Involvement in Lebanon 1...
49 min
270
All About Coattails -Does the President Wear a ...
Presidential elections and the House
19 min
271
Staying in Iraq, Staying in Vietnam
a bit of history
10 min
272
Missouri - The Show Me Swing State
a look at Missouri as a swing state
6 min
273
History Picks the President 2008
Using History to Decide the 2008 election and telling some stories along the way.
120 min
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Fixing the Primaries
Attempts to make the primaries work better over time.
16 min
275
British Prime Ministers and US Presidents
From MacDonald to Churchill to Blair, a little bit about British Prime Ministers and U.S. Presidents
10 min