[Abridged] Presidential Histories

by Kenny Ryan Austin

From Yorktown to the Civil War, Pearl Harbor to 9/11, Abridged Presidential Histories explores the successes, setbacks, and scandals that define each president’s legacy, and then asks what lessons we can learn from them.

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2025 Friendsgiving History Podcast Spectacular

It's the week of Thanksgiving, which means its time for the fourth annual Friendsgiving Podcast Spectacular. Four compelling podcast hosts sit down fo...

1h 03m

•Nov 24, 2025

20.B) Death by Lightning, an interview on the assassination of James Garfield with Candice Millard

Historian Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic, discusses what it's like to have your book turned into a major Netflix Miniseries, Death...

34m

•Nov 13, 2025

The improbable Victoria Woodhull, an interview with Eden Collinsworth

"While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it," - Victoria Woodhull, April 2, 1870, in a newspaper column announcing her candidacy fo...

55m

•Sep 1, 2025

Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 2

Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide.Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the...

21m

•Jun 14, 2025

Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 1

Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide.Athens wasn't always a democracy, but when a tyrant overplayed his hand and a revolutionary p...

25m

•Jun 14, 2025

45.) Donald Trump part 1 2017-2021

"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now." - Donald Trump, inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 2017.The American presidency had long fasc...

52m

•Jun 9, 2025