The Last Best Hope?

A podcast by Adam Smith

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Arts History

75 Episodes

  1. What just happened?

    Published: 11/8/2024

  2. The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 4: 2016

    Published: 10/31/2024

  3. God and Trump: Evangelicals and Politics in today's America

    Published: 10/30/2024

  4. The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 3: 2008

    Published: 10/29/2024

  5. The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 2: 2000

    Published: 10/25/2024

  6. Eugene V. Debs and America as the last, best hope for socialism?

    Published: 10/23/2024

  7. The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992

    Published: 10/18/2024

  8. The Age of Polarization: Election Specials

    Published: 10/17/2024

  9. Dark Money: Can billionaires buy elections in America?

    Published: 10/16/2024

  10. Rigged! Anxiety about election integrity in America

    Published: 6/19/2024

  11. Presidents and the Press

    Published: 6/5/2024

  12. The Black Founders, America and the Claim of Equality

    Published: 5/22/2024

  13. Morning Again in America: The 1984 Election forty years on.

    Published: 5/8/2024

  14. The strange death and curious rebirth of American cricket

    Published: 3/6/2024

  15. How have presidential primaries shaped modern US politics?

    Published: 2/21/2024

  16. How are Latino voters changing America?

    Published: 2/7/2024

  17. American Fascism

    Published: 1/24/2024

  18. The Last Best Hope? Season 11 Trailer

    Published: 1/22/2024

  19. The Destruction of the Tea, 250 Years On.

    Published: 11/29/2023

  20. The Kennedy Assassination and Conspiracy Culture

    Published: 11/15/2023

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Historian and broadcaster Professor Adam Smith explores the America of today through the lens of the past. Is America - as Abraham Lincoln once claimed - the last best hope of Earth?Produced by Oxford University’s world-leading Rothermere American Institute, each story-filled episode looks at the US from the outside in – delving into the political events, conflicts, speeches and songs that have shaped and embodied the soul of a nation.From the bloody battlefields of Gettysburg to fake news and gun control, Professor Smith takes you back in time (and sometimes on location) to uncover fresh insights and commentary from award-winning academics and prominent public figures.Join us as we ask: what does the US stand for – and what does this mean for us all?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.