The Past, the Promise, the Presidency Podcast
1) Prioritizing Faith: A Conversation with Dr. Ashlyn Hand
CPH is excited to announce Season 5 of The Past, the Promise, The Presidency. This season will feature brief interviews with historians about their newest books, ranging in topic from religious freedo...Show More
2) Dr. Jeffrey Engel, "Fifty Years Since Watergate: Presidential Power in the Age of Rampant Immunity and Feckless Impeachments"
On October 30th, 2024, CPH Director Dr. Jeffrey Engel presented a lecture as part of the SMU Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Godbey Lecture Series, described below. A few weeks later, we sa...Show More
3) Mourning the Presidents (Lindsay Chervinsky and Matthew Costello)
For the conclusion of this season, we examine conclusions: the deaths of presidents. Not just presidents who died while in office, but those who died years after they retired from the presidency and t...Show More
4) The Peacemaker (William Inboden)
The early 1980s was a time of great political uncertainty. With the threat of nuclear destruction seemingly imminent, the emergence of global terrorism, and the rise of proxy conflicts in Africa, Lati...Show More
5) Framing Reconstruction (Gallagher and Waugh)
Many Americans, if they know about Reconstruction at all, likely think of it as a failed venture. What had begun in 1865 as an opportunity to guarantee equal citizenship and rights for African America...Show More
6) Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts (Blake Ball)
Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang are some of the most recognizable characters in American pop culture. From Snoopy’s doghouse to Linus’s blanket to Lucy’s perpetual football prank, the scenes from t...Show More
7) Petroleum and Progress in Iran (Gregory Brew)
Oil runs the world. From our cars to our houses, most of us can’t live without it. From the 1940s to the 1960s, though, oil played another specific role as a central part of conflict and diplomacy dur...Show More
8) Japanese American Incarceration (Stephanie Hinnershitz)
Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, stands out as a major affront to the promise of American liberty. In 1942, this executive order forced approximately 120,000 Japanese A...Show More
9) Paper Trails: The U.S. Post & the Making of the American West (Cameron Blevins)
When we think about the history of westward expansion and the growth of state power in the United States, the postal system probably isn’t the first institution that comes to mind. But this week, that...Show More
Paper Trails: The U.S. Post & the Making of the American West (Cameron Blevins)
06:21 | Mar 2nd, 2023
10) The Third Reconstruction (Peniel Joseph)
A conversation with Dr. Peniel Joseph (University of Texas at Austin) about his new book, The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.