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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 28: Donald Trump - Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.  She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955; Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award in non-fiction.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 28: Donald Trump - Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times Opinion section and a CBS News political analyst.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 27: Barack Obama - Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 27: Barack Obama - Alison Landsberg is the inaugural Director of the Center for Humanities Research at George Mason University and an internationally recognized scholar in the field of memory studies.  Her book, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Columbia UP, 2004) considers the way in which individuals are increasingly able to take on memories of events they did not live through.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 26: George W. Bush - Dr. Gary Gerstle arrived in Cambridge in 2014 after a three-decade career in the United States, most recently at Vanderbilt University where he was James G. Stahlman Professor of American History. He is currently Paul Mellon Professor of American History and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He is a social and political historian of the twentieth century, with substantial interests in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He received his BA from Brown University and his MA and PhD from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 26: George W. Bush - Peter Baker is the Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. He has covered five presidents and currently writes about President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his administration. He previously covered Presidents Donald J. Trump and Barack Obama for The Times, which he joined in 2008, and Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush for The Washington Post, where he worked for 20 years. While at The Post, he also served as Moscow Co-Bureau Chief chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin and covered the opening months of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 25: William J. Clinton - Dr. Sarah Coleman is an Assistant Professor of history at Texas State University. Her research focuses on immigration, race, public policy and rights in the United States.  Dr. Coleman is a former advisor to President Biden during the Obama Administration and in the US Senate.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 25: William J. Clinton - Dr. Carly Goodman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern American History at La Salle University. An immigration historian, she completed her Ph.D. in history at Temple University in 2016. She writes frequently for the Washington Post and is co-editor of the Made By History blog at the Washington Post.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 24: George H.W. Bush - Dr. Timothy Naftali is a Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service and a Clinical Associate Professor of History, is director of NYU's undergraduate Public Policy Major. A native of Montreal and a graduate of Yale with a doctorate in history from Harvard, Naftali writes on national security and intelligence policy, international history and presidential history. Using Soviet-era documents, he and Russian academic Aleksandr Fursenko wrote the prize-winning One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 and Khrushchev’s Cold War, the latter winning the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature in 2007 and inclusion on Foreign Affairs’ 2014 list of the ten best books on the Cold War. As a consultant to the 9/11 Commission, Naftali wrote a history of US counterterrorism policy, published as Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism. Most recently, with Peter Baker, Jeffrey Engel and Jon Meacham, he wrote Impeachment: An American History.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 24: George H.W. Bush - Mr. Fred McClure is Executive Director of The Leadership Initiative at Texas A&amp;M University.  Mr. McClure was previously the Chief Executive Officer for the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation.  Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. McClure was the Washington, DC, managing partner for the international law firm, SNR Denton.  He has also served as Assistant for Legislative Affairs to President George H.W. Bush and as Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs to President Ronald Reagan.  His previous U.S. government service includes Legislative Director to U.S. Senator John Tower, Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney General and Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Naval Academy.  In 1995, Governor George W. Bush appointed Mr. McClure to The Texas A&amp;M University System Board of Regents where he served as vice chairman.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 24: George H.W. Bush - Dr. Neil Foley received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, Masters from both Georgetown and the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Professor Foley's current research centers on the politics of immigration and citizenship in North America and Europe; Nativism/Xenophobia and ethno-nationalist movements globally; changing constructions of race, citizenship, and transnational identity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands; migration studies; and comparative civil rights politics of African, Asian, and Latinx Americans.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 23: Ronald Reagan - Daniel S. Lucks has a PhD in American history from UC Berkeley.  He's the author of Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump, and Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.  He's an attorney and lives in Los Angeles.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 23: Ronald Reagan - Leah Wright Rigueur is the Harry S. Truman Associate Professor of American History at Brandeis University. Her research expertise includes 20th Century American political and social history, modern African American history, race, politics, civil rights, contemporary social movements, political ideologies and institutions, and the American presidency.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 23: Ronald Reagan - Dr. Nicole Hemmer is an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project at Columbia University. A political historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the far-right, she is the author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. She co-hosts the podcasts Past Present and This Day in Esoteric Political History. Hemmer’s historical analysis has appeared in a number of national and international news outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Politico, U.S. News &amp; World Report, New Republic, PBS NewsHour, CNN, NPR, and NBC News. She also co-founded the Made by History section of the Washington Post.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 22: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter - Dr. Jefferson Cowie is a social and political historian whose research and teaching focus on how class, inequality, and work shape American capitalism, politics, and culture.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 22: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter - Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson is an historian specializing in the history of capitalism, U.S.-China relations, and the history of the U.S. in the world. Born in Sydney, Australia, She’s lived and worked in a number of parts of the globe: Amsterdam, Charlottesville, Los Angeles, Guilin, Dallas and now New Haven where she am a Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University. She is proficient in Mandarin.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 21: Richard Nixon - Dr. Kevin M. Kruse studies the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America. Focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion, he has particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement, the rise of religious nationalism and the making of modern conservatism.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 21: Richard Nixon - Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 21: Richard Nixon - Clare Malone is a freelance journalist and former senior political writer at fivethirtyeight. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, the New York Times and elsewhere.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 20: Lyndon B. Johnson - Dr. Julian Zelizer is one of the pioneers in the revival of American political history.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 20: Lyndon B. Johnson - Dr. Elizabeth Hinton is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Department of African American Studies at Yale, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Law at the Law School.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 19: John F. Kennedy - Dr. Sharron Wilkins Conrad joined the Center for Presidential History in September 2019. Her project examines how perceptions of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights leadership developed, hardened and continue to circulate within the black community. A key aspect of her scholarship focuses on the process by which Kennedy emerged as a civil rights hero for African Americans while Johnson—who fought for and signed into law historic civil rights legislation—has been viewed as being motivated solely by political self-interest.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 19: John F. Kennedy - Dr. Peniel Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD). His career focus has been on "Black Power Studies," which encompasses interdisciplinary fields such as Africana studies, law and society, women's and ethnic studies, and political science.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 18: Dwight D. Eisenhower - William I. Hitchcock is the William W. Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His work and teaching focus on the global history of the 20th Century, in particular the era of the two world wars and the cold war.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 18: Dwight D. Eisenhower - Dr. Brenda Gayle Plummer is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.A. from Antioch College, her M.A. from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She specializes in Afro-American, 20th century U.S., race, and history of foreign relations. Dr. Plummer’s research and teaching centers on Afro-American History; History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Her current research is on Afro-Americans and U.S. foreign affairs; race and gender in the Cold War era.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 17: Harry S. Truman - A.J. Baime is the New York Times bestselling author of Dewey Defeat Truman, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World. Previous books include The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War (2014) and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans (2009), both of which were optioned for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, Men's Journal, and numerous other publications.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 17: Harry S. Truman - Dr. Krewasky A. Salter is a United States Army Colonel (Ret.) currently serving as Executive Director, First Division Museum, where he is expanding military history interpretations through the lens of the 1st Infantry Division. Within his first year the museum has added half a dozen new and inclusive interpretations associated with the 1st Infantry Division. He is also a (Guest) Associate Curator and Military Subject Matter Expert at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History and Culture, where he curated the permanent inaugural exhibition titled: Double Victory: The African American Military Experience, and the temporary exhibition titled: We Return Fighting: The African American Experience in World War I which opened on December 13, 2019 and will close on June 14, 2020. He serves on the Army Historical Foundation Board of Directors.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 16: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Part II - Dr. Jill Watts is a Professor of History at California State University San Marcos where she teaches United States Social and Cultural History, African American History, Film History, and Digital History. In addition to The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt, she is also the author of Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood; Mae West: An Icon in Black and White; and God, Harlem USA: The Father Divine Story. Both the books on Hattie McDaniel and Father Divine have been optioned for film. Dr. Watts have consulted on two PBS documentaries and have talked with radio hosts nationally and internationally about African American History, Women’s History, and Film History.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 16: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Part II - Professor Natalie Mendoza specializes in Mexican American and Chicanx history, U.S. Latinx history, U.S. civil rights history, and the history of race and racism in the United States.</image:title>
      <image:caption>At the undergraduate level, Professor Mendoza teaches courses on Mexican American and Latinx history in the United States. Some of the courses she offers include: "American History since 1865," "Mexican American History since 1848," and "Latinos/as in the US since 1848." At the graduate level, she teaches a pedagogy course called "Teaching History in the University."</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 16: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Part II - Jamie Ford is an author most widely known for his bestselling Seattle-based novels. His debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list, won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. Hotel was named the #1 Book Club pick in 2010 by the American Bookseller Association and is now read widely in schools all across the country. This multi-cultural tale was adapted by Book-It Repertory Theatre, and has recently been optioned for a stage musical in NYC, and for film, with George Takei serving as Executive Producer.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 15: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Part I - Dr. Eric Rauchway is an expert on on U.S. policy, social, and economic history from the Civil War through the Second World War. He has consulted for government and private agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice and a major Hollywood studio, and in addition to his books, has written about history for a variety of publications, including the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 14: January 6, 2021 Insurrection - Dr. Adriane Lentz-Smith is associate professor of history and African &amp; African American studies at Duke University where she teaches courses on Black Lives, the Black Freedom Struggle, and history in fiction and fact. The author of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (Harvard, 2009), Lentz-Smith researches and writes about African Americans’ entanglements with U.S. power in the long twentieth century. Her current project traces the devastating aftermath of one young man’s encounter with the police in 1980s San Diego to explore how state violence and white supremacy reconstituted each other in response to the civil rights gains of the 1960s.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 14: January 6, 2021 Insurrection - Dr. Sharron Wilkins Conrad joined the Center for Presidential History in September 2019. Her project examines how perceptions of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights leadership developed, hardened and continue to circulate within the black community. A key aspect of her scholarship focuses on the process by which Kennedy emerged as a civil rights hero for African Americans while Johnson—who fought for and signed into law historic civil rights legislation—has been viewed as being motivated solely by political self-interest.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 14: January 6, 2021 Insurrection - Dr. Timothy Naftali is a Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service and a Clinical Associate Professor of History, is director of NYU's undergraduate Public Policy Major. A native of Montreal and a graduate of Yale with a doctorate in history from Harvard, Naftali writes on national security and intelligence policy, international history and presidential history. Using Soviet-era documents, he and Russian academic Aleksandr Fursenko wrote the prize-winning One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 and Khrushchev’s Cold War, the latter winning the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature in 2007 and inclusion on Foreign Affairs’ 2014 list of the ten best books on the Cold War. As a consultant to the 9/11 Commission, Naftali wrote a history of US counterterrorism policy, published as Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism. Most recently, with Peter Baker, Jeffrey Engel and Jon Meacham, he wrote Impeachment: An American History.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 13: The 1920s - Professor Le’Trice D. Donaldson is an Assistant Professor of African American and U.S. history at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Prior to this appointment, she taught at The University of Mississippi, The University of Memphis, Medgar Evers College, Marist College and City University of New York-York College.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 13: The 1920s - Dr. S. Deborah Kang is the Anne Stark and Chester Watson Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas and an Immigration Policy Fellow at the US Immigration Policy Center at the University of California at San Diego. Her research focuses on both the historical and contemporary aspects of US immigration and border policy.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 11: Woodrow Wilson Part I - Paul Welch Behringer will join the Center for Presidential History in August 2020. His current project is a history of the U.S. and Japanese intervention in the Russian Civil War. It examines the connections among violence, perception, and military intervention, and explores the Russian Civil War’s impact on U.S.-Soviet-Japanese relations and international politics in Northeast Asia. It also demonstrates how the local experiences of military and diplomatic officials affect high-level diplomacy and policy making.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 11: Woodrow Wilson Part I - Adriane Lentz-Smith is associate professor of history and African &amp; African American studies at Duke University where she teaches courses on Black Lives, the Black Freedom Struggle, and history in fiction and fact. The author of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (Harvard, 2009), Lentz-Smith researches and writes about African Americans’ entanglements with U.S. power in the long twentieth century. Her current project traces the devastating aftermath of one young man’s encounter with the police in 1980s San Diego to explore how state violence and white supremacy reconstituted each other in response to the civil rights gains of the 1960s.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 10: William Howard Taft - Christopher McKnight Nichols teaches history at Oregon State University. Nichols is Director of the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities. He founded OSU’s Citizenship and Crisis Initiative. Nichols specializes in the history of the United States and its relationship to the rest of the world, particularly in the areas of isolationism, internationalism, and globalization. In addition, he is an expert on modern U.S. intellectual, cultural, and political history, with an emphasis on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1880-1920) through the present. In 2016 Nichols was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. In 2017 Nichols became an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer. Nichols’ 2018 TED Talk is entitled “The Untold Story of American Isolationism” (aka “Why History Matters Today”).</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 10: William Howard Taft - Daniel Okrent is the author of six books, most recently The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. It is his third book since he concluded his term as the first Public Editor of the New York Times in 2005.  His earlier works include Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, winner of the American Historical Association’s prize for the year’s best book of American History; and Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 9: Theodore Roosevelt - Dr. Cullinane was born and raised in New Jersey, attended Pace University (NYC) before moving to Ireland, where he graduated with an MA and PhD in History from University College Cork (National University of Ireland). He has taught diplomatic history and United States history at University College Cork, the University of Leicester, and Northumbria University. He joined the University of Roehampton in 2017.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 9: Theodore Roosevelt - Dr. Leroy Dorsey is the Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence and Strategic Initiatives, as well as a Professor of Rhetoric and Public Affairs at Texas A&amp;M. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in Speech Communication.</image:title>
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  <url>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 8: William McKinley - Dr. Daniel Immerwahr received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, where he studied history and philosophy. He returned to the United States to get a doctoral degree in history at the University of California, Berkeley, studying under the intellectual historian David Hollinger. His dissertation won the Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History from the Economic History Association, and it received honorable mention for the Betty M. Unterberger Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.</image:title>
      <image:caption>In fall 2012, Dr. Immerwahr joined Northwestern University's history department. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015), offers a critical account of the United States' pursuit of grassroots development at home and abroad in the middle of the twentieth century. It won the Merle Curti Prize in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and was the co-winner of the Annual Book Prize from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Also, in 2015 he received the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, given every year to a younger scholar for "excellence in teaching and research in the field of foreign relations."</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 8: William McKinley - Dr. Maass is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Evansville (UE) specializing in International Relations (IR), including international security, U.S. foreign policy, terrorism, and diplomatic history. He teaches a range of IR courses to the students at UE, and is constantly thinking about new ways to engage student learning in these fascinating subjects. His first book, which explores how democracy and xenophobia limited U.S. territorial expansion, was published by Cornell University Press on May 15, 2020.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 7: Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison - Professor Downs studies the political and cultural history of the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Particularly, he investigates the transformative impact of the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the role of military force in establishing new meanings of freedom. He is the author of two books on Reconstruction and Mapping Occupation, an interactive digital history of the U.S. Army’s occupation of the South (www.mappingoccupation.org). He is also a co-editor of a scholarly volume on the post-Civil War world.</image:title>
      <image:caption>As a public historian, Downs co-wrote the National Park Service’s Theme Study on Reconstruction and helped edit the Park Service’s handbook on Reconstruction. His efforts have been highlighted in The Atlantic and the New York Times.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 7: Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison - Dr. Gordon Change is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and the Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. His scholarship explores the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America, on the one hand, and foreign relations, on the other, and trans-Pacific relations in their diplomatic as well as their cultural and social dimensions. He has published in the areas of U.S. diplomacy, America-China relations, the Chinese diaspora, Asian American history, and global history. His most recent books have examined the history of Chinese railroad workers in America in the 19th century.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 6: James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur - Todd Arrington is a career National Park Service historian, park ranger, and manager. He has worked in national parks in his home state of Pennsylvania and in Nebraska and Ohio. He is currently posted to James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio. (All views expressed here are personal and do not reflect views, opinions, or policies of the National Park Service.) Arrington holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is particularly interested in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the history of the Republican Party.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Arrington is an editor of the popular history site We’re History and the author of The Last Lincoln Republican: The Election of 1880, published in September 2020 by the University Press of Kansas.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 6: James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur - Katherine Benton-Cohen is professor of history at Georgetown University.  Her most recent book is Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy (Harvard, 2018). She is also the author of Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard 2009), which was the basis for her work as historical advisor for the much-acclaimed documentary feature film, Bisbee ’17. Her interests include the history of the American West, race and immigration, and women and gender in the United States. She is now working on a global history of the Phelps-Dodge family, whose capitalist and philanthropic links between New York, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and the Middle East profoundly changed each region.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.pastpromisepresidency.com/season1/ep5-rutherford-b-hayes</loc>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 5: Rutherford B. Hayes - Brooks D. Simpson is an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, where he is a member of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts faculty and serves as faculty head of the interdisciplinary humanities and communication faculty.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 5: Rutherford B. Hayes - Alaina E. Roberts is a historian of African American and Native American life in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Roberts holds a Doctorate in History from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts in History, with honors, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 4: Ulysses S. Grant - Hilary Green is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama’s Department of Gender and Race Studies, the co-program director of the African American Studies program, and a partial appointment in American Studies.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 4: Ulysses S. Grant - Nick Sacco is a Park Ranger at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site Park in St. Louis, Missouri. Sacco graduated cum laude from Lindenwood University (St. Charles, Missouri) with B.A. degrees in History Education and Music Performance, and received a M.A. in History with a concentration in Public History from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He specializes in interpretation, museum education, education theory, public programming, visitor studies, social media, and historical research.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 3: Emergency Episode! Presidents and Health - Richard Immerman is the Professor and Edward J. Buthusiem Distinguished Faculty Fellow in History and Marvin Wachman Director of Temple’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy. He is a historian of U.S. foreign relations and intelligence who concentrates on the post-World War II era. A former President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, from 2007-2009, Dr. Immerman served as an Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence. He currently hold the Francis W. DeSerio Chair in Strategic Intelligence at the Army War College and chair the Historical Advisory Committee to the Department of State.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 3: Emergency Episode! Presidents and Health - Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is an expert in the cabinet, presidential history, and U.S. government institutions. Currently, she is serving as Scholar in Residence at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College and Senior Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies. Previously, she was a historian at the White House Historical Association and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. She received her B.A. in history and political science from the George Washington University, and completed her masters and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 3: Emergency Episode! Presidents and Health - Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and Professor in the Clements Department of History.  A Senior Fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, he graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University.  He additionally studied at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before holding a John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 2: Andrew Johnson - Jon Meacham is a renowned presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, contributing editor at TIME, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 2: Andrew Johnson - Dr. Lesley Gordon is the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History. Her research interests include Southern history and the American Civil War. Gordon earned her BA with High Honors from the College of William and Mary, and her MA and PhD in American History from the University of Georgia. From 2010-2015, Dr. Gordon was editor of the academic journal Civil War History. She is currently at work on a book manuscript about battlefield cowardice and violence.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 1: Abraham Lincoln - Edna Greene Medford, PhD Assistant Provost, Professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and former chair of the Department of History | Howard University</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Episode 1: Abraham Lincoln - Eric Foner, PhD DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History | Columbia University</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 1 - Introduction Episode - Maria Dixon Hall, PhD Associate Professor and Director of Mustang Consulting, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor of Corporate Communication and Public Affairs, Senior Advisor to the Provost | Southern Methodist University</image:title>
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  <url>
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      <image:title>Season 2 - Episode 6: The Bonus Army &amp;amp; The 1932 March on Washington - Dr. David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus at Stanford University</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 2 - Episode 5: Teddy Roosevelt &amp;amp; The Great Coal Strike of 1902 - Susan Berfield is the author of The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 2 - Episode 5: Teddy Roosevelt &amp;amp; The Great Coal Strike of 1902 - Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane is a professor of US History at the University of Roehampton, London</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 2 - Episode 4: Ulysses S. Grant and the Ku Klux Klan Act - Dr. Yohuru Williams is is the Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4401d7ec482d36fca073d2/ceebe085-d0d5-4810-a5f8-f58616e5dd95/christina-snyder.jpg</image:loc>
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      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 7: Native Sovereignty and Native Removal - Dr. William Bauer is a Professor and the Director of American Indian &amp; Indigenous Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-05-06</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4401d7ec482d36fca073d2/135f2318-3bfc-462e-80aa-fb61f31f9f65/MarkDavidSpence.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 6: Environmental Protection - Dr. Mark David Spence is a public historian specializing in environmental history, the American west, and the history of national parks. He is the author of Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of National Parks.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 6: Environmental Protection - Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is a writer and historian living in Massachusetts and the author of four books, including Saving Yellowstone.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 6: Environmental Protection - Dr. Brooks Flippen is a political and environmental historian, and a professor of history at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4401d7ec482d36fca073d2/a27d07a1-23a6-4d7a-b1f1-07f5d423a696/Mark+Schrad.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 5: Prohibition and the War on Drugs - Dr. Mark Schrad is an associate professor of political science at Villanova University</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 5: Prohibition and the War on Drugs - Dr. Aileen Teague is an assistant professor at The Bush School of Government at Texas A&amp;M University</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4401d7ec482d36fca073d2/deca3491-c642-4e6a-82bc-f19d146d0e50/KimberlyHamlin.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 4: Women’s Suffrage and the ERA - Dr. Kimberly Hamlin is Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University at Oxford.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 4: Women’s Suffrage and the ERA - Lisa McCubbin is an award-winning journalist and the author of four New York Times bestselling books.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.pastpromisepresidency.com/season3/ep3-church-state</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4401d7ec482d36fca073d2/055e2b15-5263-4c62-80a4-15e45eadad53/JohnFea.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Season 3 - Episode 3: Church &amp;amp; State - Dr. John Fea is Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at Messiah University.</image:title>
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