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University of North Carolina constitutional law professor Michael Gerhardt, author of The Forgotten Presidents, talked about the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis talked about his biography of businessman and 1940 presidential candidate Wendell Willkie.

James Mann talked about his biography of former President George W. Bush.

Professor Joel Richard Paul talked about Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times, his biography of the fourth and longest-serving chief justice of the United States. Professor Paul…

Tucker Carlson talked about his book, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution.

Yale University historian Joanne Freeman talked about The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War. In her book she describes 70 violent incidents, meaning incidents…

Southern Methodist University’s Jeffrey Engel discussed his book, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War.

CBS News Chief White House correspondent Major Garrett talked about his book, Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride.

Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith talked about An Uncommon Man, his biography of President Herbert Hoover.

Zachary Wood, assistant editor at The Atlantic, talked about his book, Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America.

Historian Charles Calhoun talked about his book, Benjamin Harrison: The 23rd President.

National Constitutional Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen talked about his biography of William Howard Taft, the 27th president who later served as chief justice of the United States.

Historian John Ferling talked about his book, Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe.

ProPublica senior reporter Ginger Thompson talked about her story, “The Making of a Massacre,” about an attack on a small Mexican town by the Zetas drug cartel.

Congressional historians Richard Baker, Ray Smock, and Donald Ritchie talked about American history and the U.S. Congress.

Constitutional lawyer David Stewart talked about his book, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy.

Grace Kennan Warnecke, daughter of American diplomat George Kennan, talked about her memoir, Daughter of the Cold War.

Gregory Watson talked about his role in getting the 27th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. The amendment deals with pay adjustments for members of Congress. In 1982, while a student at the…

Freelance journalist Tom Dunkel talked about his Washington Post Magazine article on the sons of the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the church they run in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania.…

Professor Tom Cronin talked about his book, Imagining a Great Republic, a survey of American novels that have helped tell the story of the American political experiment.