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Presidential

The Washington Post

History, Government, Education

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Students, teachers and historians reflect on what has changed — and should change — about the way we teach presidential history today. This special episode features presidential experts Barbara Perry and Julian Zelizer, “How the Word Is Passed” author Clint Smith, and the AP government and politics class of teacher Michael Martirone.

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0:00.0	Hey there, this is Lilian.
0:03.8	It has been a while since we've put a new episode in the presidential feed, but I am back
0:10.3	after having a baby and working from home during the pandemic.
0:15.6	And I made this following episode actually for another Washington Post podcast called
0:22.5	Post Reports.
0:23.5	It's our Daily News Podcast.
0:25.6	You should check it out if you don't already listen to it.
0:28.8	But it's an episode about presidential history.
0:32.2	It's actually also an episode that features a long time presidential listener and some great
0:38.1	presidential historians.
0:40.1	So I thought that you all would love to hear it.
0:43.6	I hope you enjoy.
0:45.5	I also wanted to let you know that we are hard at work on a new podcast series to bring
0:50.8	you.
0:52.1	And if you stay subscribed to this feed, we'll have some updates soon to share with you
0:57.9	about it.
0:59.5	So meantime, I would love to hear from you on email, Twitter, Instagram, however you want
1:06.8	to get in touch.
1:08.2	I hope you're all doing really well.
1:10.9	I hope you enjoy this following episode from Post Reports and can't wait to be back in
1:17.2	touch.
1:18.2	All right, here we go.
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