The Impeachers, Ulysses S. Grant, Noah's Flood, Women at Sundance
Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 354
- Feb 4, 2020 7:00 am
- 1:39:14 mins
The Impeachers Guest: Brenda Wineapple, author, "The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation" Presidential impeachment has occurred throughout our nation’s history, beginning with Lincoln’s infamous successor, Andrew Johnson. Author and historian Brenda Wineapple explains the first US presidential impeachment. The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant Guest: Paul Kahan, author, "The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant: Preserving the Civil War's Legacy" Ulysses S. Grant is often regarded as having one of the worst presidencies in US history, but author and historian Paul Kahan offers a much more nuanced and balanced view of this complicated presidency. In Search of a Witness to Noah's Flood Guest: Hans Sues, Senior Scientist and Curator of Fossil Vertebrates, National Musem of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute The story of an 18th-century man who claimed to have fossil evidence of the Biblical flood. He didn't, but he was still ahead of his time in so...