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Citizens' History episodes
- season 2, episode 5 - John and Abigail Adams, part 2
Justin Coffey joins us to discuss the legacy of John and Abigail Adams.
46 min - season 2, episode 4 - John Adams, part 1
the first of a multipart analysis of John and Abigail Adams and their legacy
58 min - season 2, episode 3 - does the common good exist?
We welcome Justin Coffey to follow up on previous episodes discussing the common good. Does the common good even exist?
1 hr 20 min - season 2, episode 2 - Jeffrey Wade Gibbs, The Peril of Remembering Nice Things
We're delighted to welcome Jeff Gibbs to discuss his book, The Peril of Remembering Nice Things, a family memoir illustrating the ways in which one family's joys and sorrows connects to larger global concerns
1 hr 13 min - season 2, episode 1 - the 2024 election
Four historians walk into a bar to discuss the 2024 election. We're delighted to welcome back Sam Swisher and Patrick Hotle to discuss Trump's victory and what it means.
2 hr 13 min - season 1, episode 14 - JMatt Ward's new book Garden of Ruins
JMatt introduces his new book on the civil war
1 hr 30 min - 1 hr 57 min
- season 1, espisode 12 - religion and the common good
featuring philosophers Rob Manning and Jonathan Miles
1 hr 33 min - season 1, episode 11 - Israel and Palestine
with Adam Klempner to discuss the roots and consequences of the ongoing war
1 hr 58 min - season 1, episode 10 - Free will
We're joined by Brian Nolan, professor of psychology, to discuss free will and free will denialism
1 hr 54 min
About Citizens' History
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Today the United States, and the world, appear more divided than ever before. Are we condemned to factionalism, alienation, and ultimately democratic and global collapse? It's easy to be a critic,…
hard to be a good critic, and harder still to take an informed stand on the great issues of the day. In Citizens' History, we pursue a better understanding of the common good, expose assumptions masquerading as self-evident truths, and ask how the academy can better serve society. We explore the contested meanings of the core concepts of our country and world today: truth, freedom, democracy, religion, science, and capitalism. We try to distill these often acrimonious debates for a broad general audience, and to ask the most important questions: who are we and where are we going? How should we be educating our children, and ourselves? Why should anyone care about any of this?
J. Matthew Ward spent his formative years in Mississippi, where he developed a lasting interest in US history and politics. As a professional historian, he writes about the US Civil War, slavery, and gender issues. Also a historian, Padraic Rohan had previous lives as a public school teacher, a nonprofit founder and director, and a foreign correspondent in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria.