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Episode #191: Richard Fox (Professor, “Lincoln’s Body”)

Richard Fox (“Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History”, Professor of History University of Southern California) joins the show. We discuss how a completely unassuming man not only embodied the American spirit, but is still remembered as one of the truly iconic

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Episode #123: Mark Cheathem

Mark Cheathem (Associate Professor of History at Cumberland University, “Andrew Jackson, Southerner”) joins the show. Andrew Jackson was an incredibly controversial and complex man. We discuss how Jackson’s southern identity has largely been ignored up to the present and what

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Episode #105: Amy Greenberg

Amy Greenberg (Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Penn State University and author of “A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico”) joins the show. We discuss the surprise Election of 1844 which lead to

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Episode #86: Kevin Gutzman

Kevin Gutzman (“James Madison and the Making of America”) joins the show. We discuss the incredible breadth of Madison’s career, including his involvement with the Constitution, Federalist Papers, and War of 1812. Show Notes: You can purchase James Madison and the

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