A Preview Interview with Marcia Chatelain From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. […]

A Preview Interview with Dr. Maria K. John The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major, sometimes fatal shortcomings in the U.S. healthcare system. Through a conversation about the recent history of healthcare, historians George Aumoithe and Maria K. John will shed light on today’s crisis. They will discuss what the history of healthcare policy can teach […]

A Preview Interview with Amy Offner   The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the […]

A Preview Interview with Simon Miles In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined […]

A Preview Interview with Dr. Paul Renfro Beginning with Etan Patz's disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked anxieties about the threats of child kidnapping and exploitation. Publicized through an emerging twenty-four-hour news cycle, these cases supplied evidence of what some commentators dubbed "a national epidemic" […]

28 Down. 1 to go. We started with Lincoln, and have made it to Biden. Join us LIVE for the season 1 finale of "The Past, the Promise, the Presidency: Race & the American Legacy," the CPH's inaugural podcast season.  If you’ve been with us from the start, or for any period of time since […]

A Preview Interview with Dr. Sarah Milov The untold political story of the most controversial consumer product in American history. Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the […]

                          In the 1950s, the US government not only called the new People’s Republic of China an enemy […]

A Preview Interview with Dr. Christopher Nichols A Preview Interview with Dr. Andrew Preston A Preview Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Engel A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise […]

 A historic musical performance featuring members of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The Center for Presidential History is proud to partner with Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in their presentation of To […]