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Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 2
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
06/14/25
•21m
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Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the Greek city states were a bunch of backwaters. And that's how history may have remembered them, if not for one suicidally ambitious Greek, and one desperately crafty Athenian who saved his city from destruction.
Sources:
- The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan
- Lords of the Sea, by John R. Hale
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45.) Donald Trump part 1 2017-2021
June 9, 2025
•52m
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now." - Donald Trump, inauguration speech, Jan. 20, 2017.
The American presidency had long fascinated Donald Trump. Ever since attending the 1988 GOP National Convention, Trump had wanted a piece of it - he'd even called Bush that year to ask to be on the ticket. But the idea that a twice divorced, six-times bankrupted Democratic donor could become the Republican president of the United States - that was laughable. Until it happened.
Follow along as Donald Trump develops a personal brand for luxury, rides that brand to the White House, and then spends four years contending with investigations, impeachments, and a global pandemic. When he's voted out of office at the end of those four years, he won't accept it, and his supporters will storm the U.S. capital to try and take the presidency back for him.
Sources
- Confidence Man - Maggie Haberman
- CDC - for COVID stats and timelines
- WHO - for COVID stats and timelines
- Jan. 6 Committee - for Jan. 6 details and timelines
- Washington Post & New York Times - for miscellaneous other details on Trump's presidency.
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The improbable Victoria Woodhull, an interview with Eden Collinsworth
September 1, 2025
•55m
"While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it," - Victoria Woodhull, April 2, 1870, in a newspaper column announcing her candidacy for presidency of the United States.
You may know that Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president, but did you know that prior to running for office, she turned a reputation for being a clairvoyant into a stock brokerage career? Or that her vice presidential candidate was Frederick Douglass, but he didn't know it? Or that she missed the election because she was in jail?
Join me for an interview with Eden Collinsworth on her new book, The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President.
If there are other historians or authors of presidential history you would like to hear from, drop me a line: abridgedpresidentialhistories@gmail.com
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