The American Idea Podcast

The homepage for Ashbrook’s official podcast, The American Idea, which explores America’s Founding principles and their effect on American history and government. Through thoughtful conversations with renowned academics and public figures from across the country, we examine the history and political thought behind our country’s greatest documents and debates, as well as contemporary issues, American popular culture, and political statesmanship. Hosted by Jeff Sikkenga.

The Constitution and the Rule of Law

Want to Understand America? Study the Gettysburg Address

Entitlement Reform: A Problem America Can No Longer Avoid

Inside Camp David

Alexander Hamilton and The Federalist

What Can We Learn from Herbert Hoover?

Archive

Taking Manhattan: The Birth of New York City
The Pathfinder and the President: John C. Fremont, Lincoln, and the Civil War
Congress: What It Was Meant to Be; What It’s Become
The Constitutional Convention Was a Four-Act Drama

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