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Lore of the Founding- Julius Caesar
Jun 24, 2026
38m 02s
Lore of the Founding- Founding of the Roman Republic
Jun 23, 2026
31m 30s
The Lore of the Founding: Checks And Balances in Rome
Jun 22, 2026
35m 47s
What is Juneteenth and Why Do We Celebrate?
Jun 19, 2026
22m 24s
Lore of the Founding- An Introduction
Jun 18, 2026
31m 54s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 | ![]() Lore of the Founding- Julius Caesar | A republic can look stable right up until the moment it isn’t. We sit down with Joanna Kenti to trace how Julius Caesar rises through Roman politics, builds personal loyalty through war, and finally dares the republic to stop him. Along the way, we unpack the real-world pressures behind the legend: dispossessed farmers, bitter factional conflict, escalating political violence, and the way “temporary” exceptions to the rules start to feel normal. We walk through the First Triumvirate, the Gal... | 38m 02s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | ![]() Lore of the Founding- Founding of the Roman Republic | A king gets exiled, a republic gets born, and the story is so brutal it still shapes how people talk about tyranny today. We dig into Rome’s founding legend with Joanna Kenty, starting with the Roman monarchy, the reign of Tarquin the Proud, and the moment one crime becomes the final straw that makes Romans swear off kings forever. It’s not clean hero worship. It’s a reminder that unchecked power can turn private violence into a public crisis, and that “freedom” sometimes begins as a vow made... | 31m 30s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | ![]() The Lore of the Founding: Checks And Balances in Rome | A republic doesn’t fail only because of enemies at the gates. It can fail because someone inside decides the rules are for other people. That’s the tension we wrestle with as we explore checks and balances, starting with the Federalist 51 idea that still cuts through every civics debate: human beings are not angels, so a government must be designed to control itself. We tell two Roman Republic stories that make the stakes feel real. Coriolanus shows what happens when pride, class conflict, a... | 35m 47s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() What is Juneteenth and Why Do We Celebrate? | Juneteenth isn’t just a date; it’s a lesson about how freedom can be promised on paper and still withheld in practice. I’m joined by Clint Smith, the New York Times bestselling author of *How the Word Is Passed* and a staff writer at The Atlantic, to trace why so many Americans grew up barely hearing about Juneteenth and what changes when we finally tell the story plainly. We walk through the history that made Juneteenth necessary: the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the end of the Civil ... | 22m 24s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() Lore of the Founding- An Introduction | America’s founding didn’t spring from a blank page. It grew out of a loud, messy argument that had been running for centuries about how people should govern themselves, and Joanna Kenty helps us follow that argument back to its classical roots. We talk with Joanna, a former classics professor and civic education writer, about what “classical history” actually means beyond “great books.” She maps the Greek and Latin-speaking Mediterranean world, the timelines most people mean when they say “t... | 31m 54s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() The War Powers Act Explained | The Constitution draws a bright line that most of us never hear clearly: Congress declares war, and the President commands the military. So why does modern American conflict so often start without a formal declaration, and why does the “commander in chief” argument keep winning in practice? We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienberg to unpack the War Powers Act, also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973, and the long tug-of-war over constitutional war powers. We connect the founding debates i... | 27m 27s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() How Primaries Pick Candidates And Reshape Elections | Primaries decide far more than most voters think and the process that was supposed to make politics cleaner may be one reason it feels uglier. We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienberg to unpack what primary elections actually are, why they took off in the early 20th century, and how they replaced the old convention system where party leaders and delegates negotiated nominees behind closed doors. If you’ve ever heard “smoke-filled room” and assumed the cure was obvious, this conversation adds the m... | 16m 51s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() The Senate Filibuster Explained | The filibuster gets treated like an ancient feature of the U.S. Senate, but the version that drives today’s gridlock is surprisingly modern. We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienberg to unpack how a procedure that’s not even named in the Constitution ends up acting like a standing 60-vote requirement for most legislation. We start with the basics: what a filibuster is, what it is supposed to do, and why the classic image of someone heroically talking for hours is more myth than daily reality. From... | 17m 59s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Mary Todd Lincoln Unmasked✨ | Mary Todd LincolnCivil War+3 | Vicky Middleswarth | Mary Todd Lincoln House | — | Mary Todd LincolnCivil War+3 | — | 30m 36s | |
| 6/11/26 | ![]() How Lorraine Waxman Pearce Turned The White House Into A Museum✨ | White House historymuseum curation+3 | Leslie Calderone | White House Historical Association | White House | White Housecurator+5 | — | 19m 10s | |
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| 6/10/26 | ![]() How The U.S. Capitol Historical Society Keeps Democracy Real✨ | civic educationU.S. Capitol+3 | Roswell Encina | U.S. Capitol Historical Society | U.S. Capitol | U.S. Capitolcivic education+3 | — | 23m 24s | |
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Elizabeth Willing Powel✨ | influencewomen in history+3 | Samantha Snyder | George Washington Presidential Library | Philadelphia | Elizabeth Willing PowelGeorge Washington+4 | — | 23m 31s | |
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Social Media And Modern Elections✨ | social mediamodern elections+3 | Spencer Burrows | Civics In A YearThe Center for American Civics | AmericaGen Z | TikTokcampaign communication+5 | — | 24m 59s | |
| 6/5/26 | ![]() D-Day: What Does Courage Look Like When History Is Watching✨ | D-Daycourage+4 | Dr. Michael Butler | — | Normandy | D-Daycourage+5 | — | 27m 48s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket✨ | Supreme Courtshadow docket+3 | Spencer Burrows | The Center for American CivicsThe Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket | — | Supreme Courtshadow docket+3 | — | 26m 27s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() How Eleanor Roosevelt And JFK Turned Conflict Into Partnership✨ | political alliancehistorical analysis+4 | Barbara Perry | UVA’s Miller CenterReconcilable Differences: The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt | — | Eleanor RooseveltJohn F. Kennedy+4 | — | 35m 02s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Jackie Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier✨ | First LadyAmerican civic life+3 | Barbara Perry | University of VirginiaJacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier | — | Jacqueline KennedyBarbara Perry+3 | — | 31m 28s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Dolly Madison’s Hidden Power✨ | Dolly MadisonAmerican civic culture+3 | Dr. Lindsay Cormack | Stevens Institute of Technology | — | Dolly Madisoncivic culture+3 | — | 18m 48s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Hamilton Vs Burr | A sitting vice president shoots a Founding Father, the Constitution gets rewritten because of a botched election, and a rivalry that starts as professional respect ends in blood. That’s the real historical arc behind Hamilton and Burr, and it’s even more complicated than the musical makes it look. We’re joined by Dr. Stephen Knott, historian and author who studied Hamilton long before pop culture made him a household name. Together, we map the early connection between Alexander Hamilton and ... | 16m 58s | ||||||
| 5/28/26 | ![]() Place Shapes Civics | Your city is not just where you live. It is a political education you walk through every day. We sit down with Dr. John Harner, professor of geography and environmental studies, to connect cultural geography to civic engagement in the United States. We unpack what “place” really means, including place identity (the image a community projects through architecture, branding, and design rules) and sense of place (the personal ties that make us feel rooted). When those pieces work together, peop... | 20m 22s | ||||||
| 5/27/26 | ![]() Geocivics, Redistricting, and Gerrymandering | A map can look clean and still be unfair, and a “weird” map can exist for reasons most people never learn. That’s why we sit down with Dr. Rebecca Theobald, an associate research professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, to unpack geocivics and the real mechanics behind redistricting and gerrymandering. We walk through what geocivics looks like in practice: learning the US Census and apportionment, understanding state rules, debating criteria, and then using free online mappin... | 36m 44s | ||||||
| 5/26/26 | ![]() After 9/11: Words, Power, And War | A president’s first job after a national trauma is to lead the story people tell themselves about what just happened and what must happen next. After 9/11, George W. Bush had to name the enemy, promise action, and still convince Americans that daily life could continue without surrendering to fear. We talk with historian Dr. Stephen Knott about how Bush framed the attacks in his address to the nation, why that framing shaped public understanding of the conflict that followed, and how presiden... | 16m 21s | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Memorial Day with Arlington National Cemetery | Memorial Day gets marketed like a party, but the real story is heavier and more human. We’re joined by Allison Finkelstein, Senior Historian at Arlington National Cemetery, to trace Memorial Day back to its first name: Decoration Day. From Arlington’s creation during the Civil War to the first official annual observance of National Decoration Day in 1868, we talk about how public rituals, flowers, and community grief shaped the way the United States remembers its war dead. Then we slow down ... | 37m 49s | ||||||
| 5/21/26 | ![]() Lyndon B. Johnson And The Art Of Power | Power rarely looks like a speech. Sometimes it looks like a phone call, a vote count, and a president who knows exactly how the Senate works. We’re joined by LBJ Foundation Chairman and CEO Mark Updgrove for a clear-eyed conversation about Lyndon B. Johnson, the skills that made him so effective, and why his story still belongs in every serious discussion of American civic education. We dig into the Johnson Treatment, LBJ’s legendary ability to persuade, and how his command of the legislativ... | 19m 16s | ||||||
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Presidential Pets And Public Power | A dog on the White House lawn can do what a policy speech can’t: make power feel personal. We’re taking a sharp, surprisingly civic look at presidential pets and why these “small” stories shape how Americans see leadership, character, and credibility. From carefully curated photo ops to messy headlines that remind us the White House is also a home, pets have become part of modern political communication. We walk through some of the most telling examples in presidential history, startin... | 9m 14s | ||||||
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