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#1576 Ten Things About the Louisiana Purchase 1:04:47

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This week on Listening to America, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky: Ten Things about the Louisiana Purchase. In the spring of 1803 Napoleon sold the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States for three cents per acre. At 525 million acres, or 828,000 square miles, it was the greatest land sale in human h…

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#1575 Mind the Gap: Between Presidential Administrations 57:51

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with guest host David Horton about three remarkable moments in American history between administrations. First, the tragedy of Meriwether Lewis, who got caught between the outgoing administration of his mentor Thomas Jefferson and the incoming administration of President James Madison, who was no admirer of …

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#1574 John Steinbeck and the Western Flyer 56:49

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with fellow Steinbeck scholar Russ Eagle of North Carolina about the relaunch of the Western Flyer, the boat that took Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck’s wife Carol, and four others to the Sea of Cortez in the spring of 1940. After eighty years the Western Flyer has been completely refurbished and now takes…

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#1573 Overrated and Underrated Presidents 58:08

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by regular guests Lindsay Chervinsky and David Nicandri to discuss the most overrated and underrated Presidents in American history, present company excluded. We evaluate the 46 presidencies, not the overall character or achievement. Woodrow Wilson does not fare well, but Richard Nixon has considerable support, in spite of …

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#1572 Ten Things: The Post-Civil War Amendments 58:01

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This week, Clay’s conversation with favorite guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. All ratified between December 1865 and February 1870, these three key amendments are in some respects the second founding of the United States. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th insisted on equal…

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#1571 A Conversation With David Nicandri 1:08:06

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This week, Clay’s conversation with Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri about four subjects: Ken Burns’ documentary on the buffalo; the solar eclipse of Saturday, October 15; a new book by former Secret Service Agent Paul Landis about the Kennedy assassination — Landis actually tampered with the evidence in the presidential limo, and now, at…

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#1570 Clay’s 10 Propositions About Thomas Jefferson 1:03:07

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This week on Listening to America, after a lifetime of thinking about the third president of the United States, Clay Jenkinson has made a list of 10 insights about the great man. Clay puts these propositions to our favorite guest historian Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky.

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#1569 Ten Things About the Constitutional Convention 1:00:45

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the creation of the Constitution in the summer of 1787. What did they get right, what did they get wrong, and which issues did they simply kick down the road? Was the true divide between big states and little states, or as James Madison said, between slave states and free st…

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#1568 The American Buffalo: a New Documentary by Ken Burns 1:07:45

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Guest host David Horton of Radford University talks with Clay Jenkinson about Ken Burns' latest documentary, The American Buffalo, which premiers on PBS on October 16. Clay has now been in five of Ken Burns' documentaries, and has been one of the historical advisers in two of the films. Among the topics of discussion: Who was William Hornaday and w…

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#1567 Rebuilding Trust in American Institutions 56:10

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s interview with Dr. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute about how we can turn America around from this funk of profound disillusionment and cynicism. Dr. Levin is the author of many books, the most recent of which is A Time to Build: How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream. As the U…

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#1566 How To Be a Chautauquan 1:01:32

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with actor Steven Duchrow about taking on historical characters. Steven has been performing as the poet Vachel Lindsay for many years, but now he is taking on the character of the poet Carl Sandburg. Where do you start? How do you figure out what has to be in any performance whether it is five minutes long o…

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#1565 Ten Things about Writing a Book 50:24

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the agony and ecstasy of writing a book. Among the topics: Do you do all the research before you start to write or just begin and research as you go along? How do you pace yourself and not burn out? How do you know if the book is any good? What do you do to power through the…

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#1564 The New Look of the Jefferson Hour: Listening to America 1:00:31

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This week, guest host David Horton of Radford University returns to engage Clay Jenkinson about the plans and purposes of Listening to America. Why the name change on the highly successful Jefferson Hour? What will the new program title enable Clay to explore over the next decade? Did the New Enlightenment Radio Network change the name because Jeff…

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#1563 The Formation of Thomas Jefferson 1:03:30

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This week, guest host David Horton of Radford University questions Mr. Jefferson about his formation, about the path he took to national greatness. What were the particular influences of Jefferson's father Peter, a self-made man of the overseer class, and Jefferson's mother Jane Randolph, who belonged to one of the most socially and politically pro…

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#1562 Ten Things: Counterfactual History 51:26

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This week on Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson, Clay's conversation with his regular guest Professor Lindsay Chervinsky about Ten Historical Counterfactuals. Historians are warned never to indulge in what if history, but we cannot help it, it just such fun. What if the British had won the Revolutionary War? What if Alexander Hamilton had bec…

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#1561 The Titan and the Titanic 53:13

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s interview with David Nicandri in the aftermath of the disaster of the submersible Titan in the north Atlantic. Nicandi reflects on the spirit of exploration, the risks taken by those who would go where no man has gone before. Were the five men who died when the submersible imploded just billionaire tourists or adventurer…

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#1560 The Oppenheimer Film as Cinema 55:57

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with his cinephile friend Niles Schwartz of Minneapolis about the summer blockbuster film Oppenheimer. People are already saying it is one of the great films in recent decades, a certain classic like The Sound of Music, Dr. Strangelove, the Deer Hunter, and Citizen Kane. Clay asked Niles to forget about hist…

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#1559 The Plight of a Secular Society 58:25

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This week, Clay Jenkinson interviews Bruce Ledewitz, the author of The Universe is On Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life. Since Nietzsche's famous pronouncement that "God is dead," Euro-American culture has become profoundly secular--and it shows, according to Ledewitz. Without the great tradition of Christian culture, America has de…

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#1558 How Accurate Was the Oppenheimer Movie? 58:26

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with Listening to America’s Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri after viewing the blockbuster film Oppenheimer. How close did the film stay to the historical record? Was the characterization of Oppenheimer both accurate and compelling? Why does Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey, Jr.) play so large a role i…

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#1557 The Death of Great Salt Lake 51:24

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This week, Clay Jenkinson's interview with the Thoreau of Great Salt Lake, Scott Baxter, about the possibility that the lake will die well before it dries up entirely. Baxter has spent decades monitoring the lake as its levels diminish thanks to over-allocation and more recently the prolonged drought in the American West. With his future son-in-law…

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#1556 John Quincy Adams Part II 51:31

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This week, the second of a two part conversation between Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinksy on the life and achievements of John Quincy Adams. The little known sixth President is so interesting that Clay and Lindsay decided to do a second Ten Things program about him. Did he have a sense of humor? Could he relax? What kind of First Lady was Loui…

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#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better 56:48

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This week, the first of a two part conversation between Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky on the life and achievement of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States. Adams was perhaps the greatest Secretary of State in American history. He had a rough one-term presidency, but then he won a seat in the House of Representatives th…

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#1554 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization 51:24

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This week, Clay Jenkinson talks with David Horton of Radford University in Virginia about the artificial intelligence revolution. Where are we with AI and where are we headed? What is the future of privacy? Is it possible to regulate AI? Will the machines terminate us as a slovenly, irrational, and wasteful species? Will we live forever or at least…

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#1553 Shackleton’s Ship the Endurance Found! 49:33

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Clay Jenkinson interviews Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri about the discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endurance at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. The Endurance sank in November 1915 after being trapped and crushed by polar ice. A rescue archaeologist named Mensun Bound led two multimillion dollar expeditions to find…

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#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic 55:51

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This week, Clay Jenkinson and regular Listening to America correspondent Lindsay Chervinsky talk about moments when the first president, George Washington, may have been tempted to drop the mic - if such a technology had existed in his time. We discuss Washington's response to the Newburgh Conspiracy, Washington showing up at the Continental Congre…

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#1576 Ten Things About the Louisiana Purchase 1:04:47

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#1575 Mind the Gap: Between Presidential Administrations 57:51

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#1574 John Steinbeck and the Western Flyer 56:49

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#1573 Overrated and Underrated Presidents 58:08

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#1572 Ten Things: The Post-Civil War Amendments 58:01

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#1571 A Conversation With David Nicandri 1:08:06

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#1570 Clay’s 10 Propositions About Thomas Jefferson 1:03:07

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#1569 Ten Things About the Constitutional Convention 1:00:45

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#1568 The American Buffalo: a New Documentary by Ken Burns 1:07:45

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#1567 Rebuilding Trust in American Institutions 56:10

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#1566 How To Be a Chautauquan 1:01:32

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#1565 Ten Things about Writing a Book 50:24

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#1564 The New Look of the Jefferson Hour: Listening to America 1:00:31

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#1563 The Formation of Thomas Jefferson 1:03:30

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#1562 Ten Things: Counterfactual History 51:26

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#1561 The Titan and the Titanic 53:13

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#1560 The Oppenheimer Film as Cinema 55:57

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#1559 The Plight of a Secular Society 58:25

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#1558 How Accurate Was the Oppenheimer Movie? 58:26

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#1557 The Death of Great Salt Lake 51:24

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#1556 John Quincy Adams Part II 51:31

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#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better 56:48

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#1554 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization 51:24

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#1553 Shackleton’s Ship the Endurance Found! 49:33

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#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic 55:51

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