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
American Republics, 1783–1850: Democracy and Empire
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Flora MacDonald: Journey to the New World and the Revolutionary War
Flora Macdonald: The Escape of “Bonnie” Prince Charlie
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945
Our Composite Nation: The Reconstruction of American Democracy in the Age of the Civil War
American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
Silent Spring Revolution: American Presidents and the Great Environmental Awakening
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Cuba: An American History
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis: Part II
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis: Part I
Ways and Means: How the Confederacy Financed the Civil War
Ways and Means: How the Union Financed the Civil War
American Inheritance: Slavery and the New Republic
American Inheritance: Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
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