The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a campaign of violence and intimidation.
Historian Michael Kazin, political scientist Christopher Devine and historian Adriane Lentz-Smith explore how the choice of a vice presidential candidate can shape a presidential campaign and a presidency itself.
Political scientist Yu Ouyang and professor Jeremi Suri speak with Kelly McBride, Senior Vice President at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, about how politicians and the press compete for public attention.
Sportswriter Dave Zirin and Assistant Professor Kendra Gage examine the political motives behind competing at and hosting the Olympics with historian Adriane Lentz-Smith.
America’s first vice president, John Adams, called his job “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” But that would change dramatically over the next two and a half centuries. Discover how the vice presidency has evolved over time.
Una mirada a la vida de Reagan a través del testimonio de familiares, amigos, historiadores y biógrafos, Reagan fue producida con un acceso sin precedentes a la familia Reagan, incluyendo a Nancy Reagan y tres de los cuatro hijos de Reagan, el biógrafo Edmund Morris, miembros del círculo político íntimo de Reagan, su "Gabinete de California", y sus homólogos en el escenario mundial, incluyendo a la exprimera ministra británica Margaret Thatcher y al líder soviético Mijaíl Gorbachov.
LBJ aprovechó su dominio del proceso legislativo para llevar con asombroso éxito al Congreso una serie de programas progresistas, pero su visión de una Gran Sociedad se hundió en el atolladero de Vietnam.
