Podcast Episodes

S8E16 Podcast: The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court

Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? Stan’s guest is UCLA law professor ...

S8E13 Podcast: Is Technology Changing What it Means to Be Human?

Do people prefer texting to face-to-face encounters? Will handwriting become obsolete? Have we lost the mental capacity for patience and ...

S8E9 Podcast: The Fascinating But Forgotten Founder

Stan’s guest is historian Jane Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson, published in October ...

S8E8 Podcast: John Lewis: A Life

Stan’s guest this week is historian and journalist David Greenberg of Rutgers University, talking about his new tour-de-force biography of ...

S8E7 Podcast: A Southern Underground Railroad

Stan’s guest this week is historian Paul Pressly, discussing his new book, A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the ...

S8E6 Podcast: “That’s Not Who We Are”—Or is it? An Interview with Pulitzer Prize Winner Steven Hahn

Stan interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn about his latest book, Illiberal America: A History, which argues that what happened ...

S8E5 Podcast: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Stan’s guest this week is historian Evan Friss, author of the bestselling new release, The Bookshop: A History of the ...

S8E4 Podcast: New York Times Reporter Adam Nagourney

Stan interviews veteran New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney about his recent book, The Times: How the Newspaper of Record ...