For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated, and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. Celebrated historian and writer Jon Meacham joins David M. Rubenstein in a conversation on the power of Lincoln’s story to illustrate the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
Recorded on December 9, 2022
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Mourning the Presidents
The Age of Lincoln
Coolidge
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part Two
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One
John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years
John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
Conflict: The Evolution of Modern Warfare
Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Liberation Trilogy: The War in Sicily, Italy, and North Africa
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Beyond the White House: From George Washington to Donald Trump
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House
Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
American Republics, 1783–1850: Slavery, Native Americans, and American Identity
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