The Last Best Hope?

History Podcasts

Abraham Lincoln called the United States “the last best hope of Earth.” In this podcast, we ask whether that claim still holds — and whether it ever did. Each episode takes a figure, idea, or moment in American political history and asks what it...

Episodes

1776 and the break up of the United States

The idea of America in British politics

The idea of America in British politics

New Series Coming Soon

Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 2

Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 1

Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 1

Can federalism save American liberalism?

Hillary Rodham Clinton on how America can save itself

New Series Trailer: What’s Coming Next

Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 2

Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 1

How Will History Judge Joe Biden?

The Myth of the Frontier

Trump’s Second Term Foreign Policy in Historical Context

Journalism and Democracy: Lessons from Walter Lippmann

The Last Best Hope: Series 14

What just happened?

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 4: 2016

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