23 Episodes

  1. Introducing, "The Sports Moment"

    Published: 26/07/2024

  2. Introducing “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop”

    Published: 16/10/2023

  3. Listen to the first episode of “Field Trip”: Yosemite National Park

    Published: 29/06/2023

  4. Introducing “Field Trip”

    Published: 14/06/2023

  5. Introducing "Broken Doors"

    Published: 27/04/2022

  6. Ourselves and our posterity

    Published: 12/02/2018

  7. The First Amendment

    Published: 29/01/2018

  8. Privacy

    Published: 15/01/2018

  9. Prohibition

    Published: 01/01/2018

  10. Taxes

    Published: 18/12/2017

  11. The common defense

    Published: 04/12/2017

  12. War

    Published: 20/11/2017

  13. Love

    Published: 06/11/2017

  14. Fair punishment

    Published: 23/10/2017

  15. Fair trials

    Published: 09/10/2017

  16. Congress and citizens

    Published: 25/09/2017

  17. Senate and states

    Published: 11/09/2017

  18. Gender

    Published: 28/08/2017

  19. Race

    Published: 21/08/2017

  20. Nationality

    Published: 14/08/2017

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With the writing of the Constitution in 1787, the framers set out a young nation’s highest ideals. And ever since, we’ve been fighting over it — what is in it and what was left out. At the heart of these arguments is the story of America. As a follow-up to the popular Washington Post podcast “Presidential,” reporter Lillian Cunningham returns with this series exploring the Constitution and the people who framed and reframed it — revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, teetotalers, protesters, justices, presidents – in the ongoing struggle to form a more perfect union across a vast and diverse land.

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