Studio Conversation: The Cause of the Civil War

Class 13 – Union Victory, Confederate Defeat, and Emancipation

Episode 7: Immigration and Its Discontents

Class 12 – Two Constitutions, Secession and War, 1860-1862

Studio Conversation: Frederick Douglass, The Slave Power, and The Fourth of July

Class 11 – The Road to Disunion: Politics, Dred Scott, and the Crisis of the 1850s

Episode 6: Reconstruction

Jennifer Banks in Conversation with Anthony T. Kronman

Ji Li, At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

Class 10 – The Mexican War and its Aftermath: Compromise or Armistice

Studio Conversation: What is a Republic? Hamilton, Jackson, and more

Class 9 – Whose America? Protest and Reform

Class 8 – Jacksonian “Democracy”

The History of Miracles and Near-Death Experiences with Carlos Eire

Episode 5: The Cause of the Civil War

Class 7 – What Kind of Nation? Democracy, Hamilton, Jefferson, and More

Class 6 – Republican Precedents and Presidents: The Placement of Power

Episode 4: Frederick Douglass, The Slave Power, and The Fourth of July

Studio Conversation: The Federalists, Early Republic, and the real Hamilton

Class 5: Framing a Nation: The Constitution