Τα καλύτερα Listening To America podcast (2025)

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#1641 Author, Hampton Sides on Captain James Cook’s Amazing Third Voyage 56:18

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Clay interviews Hampton Sides, the author of a dozen outstanding books, including studies of Kit Carson, Martin Luther King’s assassin James Earl Ray, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in Korea, and most recently, The Wide, Wide Sea, Sides’ study of the third and fatal voyage of Captain James Cook. How does one write about a British explorer like Jame…

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#1640 Traveling America in Search of Its History and Stories 52:28

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Clay sits down with Nolan Johnson, fellow North Dakotan and Listening to America’s talented videographer and podcast editor. Nolan joined Clay with cameras and drone in hand at key points along Clay’s 21,000-mile Travels with Charley journey in 2024. The two discuss plans for this year’s Lewis and Clark trek from Monticello to Astoria, Oregon, and …

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#1639 Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition 56:57

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Guest host Russ Eagle interviews Thomas Jefferson about the American West. When he became the third president in the spring of 1801, Jefferson hired Meriwether Lewis to be his private correspondence secretary. Two years later, he selected Lewis to explore the American West by traveling up the Missouri River to its source, crossing the continental d…

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#1638 Joe Ellis on the 2024 Presidential Election 57:21

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Clay's discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning historian Joseph Ellis, author of over a dozen outstanding, award-winning books on the Founding Fathers and America's early national period. Joe shares his comments and insights on the 2024 election and the return of Donald Trump to the White House, only the second time this has occurred in American his…

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#1637 Historical Integrity in a Hyper-Partisan Time 1:00:59

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Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky and Clay discuss the challenge of maintaining historical integrity during political turmoil and uncertainty. How does a professional historian differentiate between her personal politics, her status as an American citizen, and her responsibilities as a professional historian? In other words, how can the public trust a histori…

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#1636 Special Episode: Listener Mail On Clay's Great Steinbeck Adventure 56:23

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Clay and special guest Russ Eagle take up listener mail about Clay's recently completed Travels with Charley tour of America. Thousands of people followed Clay's 210-day, 21,400-mile journey across America and sent along numerous suggestions and questions; these included recommended detours, great places to camp, restaurants to visit, and great spo…

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#1635 Peaceful Transfer of Power 55:52

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Clay is joined by David Marchick, the author of the acclaimed book, The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions. The transfer of power in 2021 was not peaceful and it was not efficient. The transfer of power in 2025 will certainly be peaceful, but President-elect Trump is deliberately violating norms that h…

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#1634 AI and Quantum Computing, Ready or Not 54:19

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Clay and frequent guest David Horton talk about the coming Artificial Intelligence revolution. Like it or not, we are already wading (if not rushing) into that brave new world, and we all better come to terms with what’s ahead of us. Horton’s portfolio at Radford University includes questions of technology, appropriate technology, and the laws of u…

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#1633 The History of Presidential Transitions 56:30

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Clay and frequent guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky discuss how an incoming president prepares to govern the United States. In what ways does the outgoing administration advise and guide the one coming in, particularly when the new president wants to make a sharp break with his predecessor’s policies and style? We examine the first four presidencies: Wa…

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#1632 A Survival Guide for the Next Four Years 55:13

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Guest host David Horton and Clay discuss New Year’s resolutions. Never more important than at present. People across the political spectrum are nervous about the next years of American life. But what’s to be done? Clay offers several ways of coping—taking up a craft that involves one’s hands and not merely one’s brain, reading with discipline and p…

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#1631 The Annual Christmas Show 55:00

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Guest host David Horton of Radford University and Clay discuss the history of Christmas, especially its modern invention during the mid 19th century in England and the United States. Thomas Jefferson, a deist, did not celebrate Christmas, but as someone who grew up in the Anglican tradition, he did not shun it the way New England Puritans of the pe…

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#1630 The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro 50:31

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Clay welcomes University of North Texas historian Geoffrey Wawro for a discussion of the War in Vietnam (1961–1975), which cost more than 58,000 American lives and hundreds of thousands of deaths in North and South Vietnam. Wawro, the author of seven books on the history of war, explains how a superpower got into a quagmire in a small Asian country…

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#1629 The Declaration of Independence and Conspiracy Theories 55:09

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One of Clay’s favorite guests, Beau Breslin, talks about the early National Period as rife with conspiracy theories. The Declaration of Independence, for example, argued that the ministry and crown of England were engaged in a systematic conspiracy to “enslave” the colonists. Beau argues that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was a conspiracy—e…

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#1628 Civil Rights Pilgrimage with Russ Eagle 1:04:28

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Clay's and his close friend, Russ Eagle, journey from New Orleans to Shreveport. Then, from Jackson, Mississippi, to Birmingham, Alabama to visit civil rights sites and shrines. John Steinbeck witnessed the appauling white response to the integration of the schools in New Orleans in December of 1960 and was so repulsed by what he saw that he gave u…

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#1627 Clay and Steven Duchrow Talk Chautauqua 50:31

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Clay welcomes fellow Chautauquan Steve Duchrow of Illinois for a conversation about portraying historical characters. Clay does six or seven; Steve portrays the poets Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay. They discuss how to choose a character. How do you prepare for your first performance and the five hundredth? Why is it important not to work from a …

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#1626 America’s Fascination with Conspiracy Theories 50:49

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Clay talks with guest host David Horton about America’s obsession with conspiracy theories, from the notion that the moon landing in 1969 was faked on a Hollywood sound stage to the view that 9-11 was an inside job designed to secure more oil for the United States and justify a war against Islam. What is the psychology of this strange phenomenon? D…

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#1625 Do We Have an American Narrative? 59:01

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In an interview recorded on October 29, 2024, Clay interviews the eminent classicist, Edward Watts of the University of California, San Diego, on the collapse of the American narrative. The old narrative that began when Columbus bumped into the New World and then moved through the colonial period, the American Revolution, the Westering movement, th…

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#1624 Thomas Jefferson on American Elections 51:33

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Guest host David Horton welcomes the Third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, to the program to talk about what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they designed the system of American elections. Why did the Founders give two senators to each state? How was the controversy between big and little states resolved, and how has it infl…

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#1623 Reflections on the Nation of Texas 55:35

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Clay discusses his foray into Texas on Phase Three of the great John Steinbeck Travels with Charley 2024 tour. How is Texas different from other states? Can anyone really eat at the Big Texas Steak Ranch and survive? Is the Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo as worthy as Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska? Why are Texans nicer IN Texas than when they drive t…

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#1622 Clay's John Steinbeck America Tour Resumes 59:39

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Guest host Russ Eagle interviews Clay about the third phase of his 2024 Steinbeck "Travels with Charley" tour. Russ was in North Carolina, Clay, at an RV park in eastern New Mexico on the legendary Route 66. They discussed Steinbeck's purpose for his 1960 truck camper Odyssey. Did he achieve his goal? Why wasn't Steinbeck interested in America's Na…

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#1621 The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon 50:33

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by sports historian Kurt Kemper of Dakota State University and sports fan David Nicandri of Washington State. Our subject: the Caitlin Clark phenomenon. Clark of the University of Iowa now holds the NCAA collegiate basketball record for most career points in either the men’s or women’s league. What is next for her? How does…

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#1620 The Hollowing Out of Rural America 59:13

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Clay speaks with Richard Rhodes, eminent author of numerous books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb. The subject: industrial agriculture and the death of rural America. Other countries pass legislation protecting small family farms, but the U.S. government throws its weight behind agribusiness and industrial gigantism. Rhodes believes we nee…

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#1619 A Conversation With Lindsay Chervinsky 1:02:11

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Clay interviews author and frequent guest Lindsay Chervinsky about her splendid new book on the John Adams administration: Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic. In the second of two conversations about the book, Clay asks Lindsay to justify some of her unscrupulous attacks on the life and character of Thomas…

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#1618 Are We Still a Republic? 1:00:14

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Clay talks with eminent historian Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of over a dozen books. Today’s question? Were we ever a republic, and are we now a republic? What did the Founding Fathers mean when they created the American republic? How is a republic different from a democracy? Was Jefferson’s small-r republican idealism realistic…

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#1617 Clay’s Steinbeck Travels With Charley Tour: Phase Two 59:14

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Guest host Russ Eagle interviews Clay about Phase II of his 2024 Travels with Charley tour. What has Clay learned from retracing Steinbeck's famous 1960 cross-country journey? This time from Bismarck to Seattle, then Monterey, Salinas, and Route 66. Clay describes a few mishaps that have occurred. Plus, a visit to the Sylvia Beach literary hotel in…

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#1641 Author, Hampton Sides on Captain James Cook’s Amazing Third Voyage 56:18

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#1640 Traveling America in Search of Its History and Stories 52:28

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#1639 Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition 56:57

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#1638 Joe Ellis on the 2024 Presidential Election 57:21

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#1637 Historical Integrity in a Hyper-Partisan Time 1:00:59

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#1636 Special Episode: Listener Mail On Clay's Great Steinbeck Adventure 56:23

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#1635 Peaceful Transfer of Power 55:52

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#1634 AI and Quantum Computing, Ready or Not 54:19

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#1633 The History of Presidential Transitions 56:30

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#1632 A Survival Guide for the Next Four Years 55:13

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#1631 The Annual Christmas Show 55:00

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#1630 The Vietnam War: An Interview with Historian Geoffrey Wawro 50:31

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#1629 The Declaration of Independence and Conspiracy Theories 55:09

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#1628 Civil Rights Pilgrimage with Russ Eagle 1:04:28

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#1627 Clay and Steven Duchrow Talk Chautauqua 50:31

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#1626 America’s Fascination with Conspiracy Theories 50:49

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#1625 Do We Have an American Narrative? 59:01

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#1624 Thomas Jefferson on American Elections 51:33

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#1623 Reflections on the Nation of Texas 55:35

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#1622 Clay's John Steinbeck America Tour Resumes 59:39

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#1621 The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon 50:33

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#1620 The Hollowing Out of Rural America 59:13

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#1619 A Conversation With Lindsay Chervinsky 1:02:11

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#1618 Are We Still a Republic? 1:00:14

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#1617 Clay’s Steinbeck Travels With Charley Tour: Phase Two 59:14

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