Season 4: Conversations
Welcome to Conversations, Season 4 of The Past, The Promise, The Presidency. At the SMU Center for Presidential History, we get to invite historians to campus for conversations all the time. This season, we’re bringing some of those conversations to you.
Each episode of Season 4 will highlight one of our upcoming or past speakers and their research on American and presidential history. Through these short conversations, we’ll provide a crash course in the breadth of presidential history, and point you to where you can learn even more.
Episode List
Episode 10: Mourning the Presidents
With Lindsay Chervinsky & Matthew Costello
April 27, 2023
Episode 9: The Peacemaker
With William Inboden
Apr 13, 2023
Episode 8: Framing Reconstruction
With Joan Waugh & Gary Gallagher
April 6, 2023
Episode 7: Charlie Brown’s America
With Blake Ball
March 31, 2023
Episode 6: Petroleum and Progress in Iran
With Gregory Brew
March 23, 2023
Episode 5: Japanese American Incarceration
With Stephanie Hinnershitz
March 16, 2023
Episode 4: Paper Trails
With Cameron Blevins
March 2, 2023
Episode 3: The Third Reconstruction
With Peniel Joseph
February 23, 2023
Episode 2: Joseph Smith for President
With Spencer McBride
February 16, 2023
Episode 1: Partisans
With Nicole Hemmer
February 9, 2023