2022 Season: What Can History Tell Us? |
January 7, 2022 |
January 6 One Year On: What Can History Tell Us? |
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January 14, 2022 |
Washington's Farewell Address: What Was He Warning? |
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January 21, 2022 |
Congressional Representation Matters. A Lot. |
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January 28, 2022 |
Politicians: When Can You Believe Them? |
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February 4, 2022 |
Cartoons as Politics |
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February 11, 2022 |
Propaganda: It's Just What You Think It Is--And More |
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February 18, 2022 |
A Presidents' Day Special: What Do We Think When We Think of Presidents? |
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February 25, 2022 |
Stating the State of the Union |
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March 4, 2022 |
The 100th Episode!! |
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March 11, 2022 |
The Trap of Nostalgia |
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March 18, 2022 |
Framing Matters |
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March 25, 2022 |
The Bully Pulpit |
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April 1, 2022 |
Anything Goes! |
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April 8, 2022 |
John Adams and Justice |
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April 15, 2022 |
Othering as Politics |
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April 22, 2022 |
Does "WE the People" Exist? |
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April 29, 2022 |
Macho Rodeo Politics |
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May 6, 2022 |
The Power of Rights Removed |
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May 13, 2022 |
The Power of Public Opinion |
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May 20, 2022 |
The Founders: What Are They Good For? Part One |
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May 27, 2022 |
The Founders: What Are They Good For? Part Two |
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June 3, 2022 |
Broadening the American Story |
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June 10, 2022 |
Why Hearings Matter -- And They DO! |
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June 17, 2022 |
A Brief History Matters Episode |
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June 24, 2022 |
An Open Discussion of the Hearings |
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July 1, 2022 |
Why History Matters |
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2021 Season: Talking Democracy |
Date |
Topic |
Video and Documents |
January 7, 2021 |
Democracy and Violence |
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January 14, 2021 |
A Conversation: When There Are No Words |
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January 21, 2021 |
On the Meaning of Ceremonies: Inaugurations and U.S. (and us) |
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January 28, 2021 |
Wearing the "President Suit": Why Styles of Government Matter |
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February 5, 2021 |
Political Parties: What Are They Good For? |
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February 12, 2021 |
Impeachment: The Whats, Whys, and Wherefores |
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February 19, 2021 |
Representatives: What Are They Good For? |
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February 26, 2021 |
The First Hundred Days: Why Beginnings Matter |
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March 5, 2021 |
Democracy + Technology |
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March 12, 2021 |
The Filibuster |
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March 19, 2021 |
Processing the Now |
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March 26, 2021 |
Foreign Affairs |
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April 2, 2021 |
The Life We're Living: Lessons Learned (Part 1) |
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April 9, 2021 |
Where We Go From Here - A One Year Celebration |
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April 16, 2021 |
Playing By the Rules: When One Party Does and the Other Doesn't |
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April 23, 2021 |
When You Know You're Watching History: What it Means...and What it Doesn't |
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April 30, 2021 |
The Women Behind the President: Women and Public Power |
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May 7, 2021 |
On Lies and Lying |
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May 14, 2021 |
Rewriting History |
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May 21, 2021 |
NOT Trivial: When Small Things Reveal Big Things |
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May 28, 2021 |
Insurrections |
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June 4, 2021 |
Attacking Democracy: A User's Guide |
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June 11, 2021 |
The "Founders": The Who, the What, and the Why |
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June 18, 2021 |
The Core of Democracy: The Power of Norms and Trust |
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June 25, 2021 |
Humor in History |
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July 2, 2021 |
Fireworks, Parades, and National Identity: How We Use July Fourth |
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July 9, 2021 |
Here Comes the Judge!: The Founders and the Supreme Court |
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July 16, 2021 |
Who Tells Our Stories and Whose Stories Do They Tell? |
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July 23, 2021 |
Primary Documents I Have Loved, or, The Power of Primary Sources |
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July 30, 2021 |
National Character: Why It Matters |
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August 6, 2021 |
The "W's" Part 1: Who/What |
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August 13, 2021 |
The "W's" Part 2: When |
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August 20, 2021 |
The "W's" Part 3: Why |
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August 27, 2021 |
Special repeat episode |
Regretfully, the video for this day is not available |
September 3, 2021 |
Can the Press be Neutral? |
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September 10, 2021 |
Remembering the Past: The Power of Pain |
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September 17, 2021 |
The Constitution: Why It Does and Doesn't Matter |
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September 24, 2021 |
The Problem with Posturing |
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October 1, 2021 |
The American Union |
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October 8, 2021 |
The US Congress: What Do We Need to Know? |
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October 15, 2021 |
The Power of Hate |
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October 22, 2021 |
Historian's Greatest Hits: Evidence or Realizations that Surprise and Move |
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October 29, 2021 |
Fear and Power: A Scary Story |
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November 5, 2021 |
Anger and Change |
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November 12, 2021 |
Bullying as Politics, Part 2 |
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November 19, 2021 |
Censure Matters |
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November 25, 2021 |
Happy Thanksgiving |
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December 3, 2021 |
The IDEA of Rights |
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December 10, 2021 |
Morality and Politics: It's Complicated |
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December 17, 2021 |
Why History REALLY Matters |
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December 24, 2021 |
Holiday Moments in the Early Republic |
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December 31, 2021 |
Lessons and Hope for the New Year |
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2020 Season: History: There and Back Again |
Date |
Topic |
Video and Documents |
April 9, 2020 |
Contingency Matters |
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April 16, 2020 |
Feelings...Nothing More Than Feelings |
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April 23, 2020 |
Fouled Foundations |
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April 30, 2020 |
The Truth and Lies of Diaries |
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May 7, 2020 |
Insights from the Everyday |
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May 14, 2020 |
Being Persnickety with the Press Part One |
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May 21, 2020 |
Being Persnickety with the Press Part Two |
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May 28, 2020 |
Politics: It's Here, It's There, It's Everywhere |
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June 4, 2020 |
"Nobody But a Regular Woman": Women and Resistance |
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June 11, 2020 |
"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" |
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June 18, 2020 |
Hissings, Coughings, and Hootings: The Nature of Protest -- Past and Present |
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June 25, 2020 |
Fanatical Mobs and Government Plots: The Power and Pull of Conspiracy Theories |
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July 2, 2020 |
Hamilton and Hamilton: The Past, the Present, and How History Matters |
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July 9, 2020 |
Fears of Foreign Influence (and a brief Hamilton debriefing) |
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July 16, 2020 |
Picking a President: The Founders Had Thoughts |
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July 23, 2020 |
Words Can Be Worth A Thousand Pictures: The Political Power of Words |
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July 30, 2020 |
Queries, Questions, Thoughts, Ideas: A Conversation |
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August 6, 2020 |
(Not) Talking About Slavery in Early America (Part of the NCHE Equity Summit) |
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August 13, 2020 |
Attack of the Amazon Women: Fears of Women and Political Power, 1789 Edition |
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August 20, 2020 |
Why The Postal System Matters: A User's Guide to the Postmaster General's Testimony |
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August 27, 2020 |
Doomsday Politics: The Late 1790s and Now |
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September 3, 2020 |
Campaigning for Office Past and Present: The Dangers of Demagogues |
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September 10, 2020 |
Anything Goes |
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September 17, 2020 |
"WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A REVOLUTION!": The Push and Pull of Extreme Rhetoric |
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September 24, 2020 |
Hope |
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October 1, 2020 |
Debates and Democracy: A Conversation with Joanne Freeman and Heather Cox Richardson |
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October 8, 2020 |
When Political Parties Die |
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October 15, 2020 |
Democracy in Action? What Do We Hear During Hearings? |
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October 22, 2020 |
Talking Dirty: Discussing Crises at Home and in School |
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October 29, 2020 |
Democracy: A Plea |
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November 5, 2020 |
The Election: A Conversation |
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November 12, 2020 |
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Difficult Transitions in Politics |
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November 17, 2020 |
The Supreme(s) |
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November 26, 2020 |
Special Thanksgiving Day Messsage from History Matters (...and so does coffee!) |
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December 3, 2020 |
The Founders and Democracy: It's Complicated |
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December 10, 2020 |
Anything Goes, the Reboot! |
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December 17, 2020 |
The Bully Pulpit: Bullying as Politics |
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December 24, 2020 |
Special Holiday Episode |
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December 31, 2020 |
Special New Year's Eve Episode |
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