Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Willa Cather, portrayed by Jan Chapman...

Author Zachary Karabell examines Chester Alan Arthur, who was propelled into the presidency by the assassination of James Garfield an...

Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...

Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...

The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

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Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned that Communism was on the march. Historian Philip White...

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by actor Ro...

Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effect d...