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American History Tellers

Prohibition | Interview with Lillian Cunningham | 7

American History Tellers

Audible

Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Society & Culture, History

4.619K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Do you know the record for the longest ratification period of any constitutional amendment? Lillian Cunningham did. She’s an editor with the Washington Post, host of two outstanding American History podcasts, Presidential and Constitutional, and she’s our guest today. 

We’ll talk about amendments, those presidents you can never remember (can you name anything about Millard Fillmore?) and she helps us preview the next series on AHT, the Age of Jackson.


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0:00.0

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0:05.6

Download the app today.

0:11.6

From 1-3, this is American History Tellers.

0:14.8

Our History, Your Story, I'm Lindsay Graham.

0:30.0

Next week we'll be back with the first episode in a brand new six-part series on the Age

0:39.9

of Jackson.

0:41.5

Between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, America was growing at a rate faster than

0:45.7

the founding fathers had ever anticipated.

0:48.4

It was a time of instability, political change, and reform that would birth our notions of

0:52.9

manifest destiny and the first true sense of what it meant to be American.

0:58.0

But today, we'll be talking with Lillian Cunningham, reporter and editor with the Washington

1:02.4

Post.

1:03.4

In the 45 episodes of her podcast for the Post, Presidential, Lillian profiled every president

1:08.8

of the United States from Washington to Trump.

1:11.6

In her follow-up podcast, Constitutional, she analyzes the intent and interpretation of

1:16.5

the Constitution throughout our American history.

1:19.7

But before I talk to her, I wanted to thank you again for listening to our show.

1:24.9

Over the last several months, we've received hundreds of really great reviews.

1:29.3

So if you haven't left us a review yet, please do on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen

1:34.4

to American History Tellers.

1:36.5

Reviews help others find this show and help us know what you think.

1:40.9

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