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History Daily · 1,505 episodes with transcripts

On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history.

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Saturday Matinee: This American President

October 17, 2026

Lindsay Graham (0:08)

If you study history at any length, you will come across persons of such rare substance and character that they surely must be historical figures. The leaders, thinkers, doers and makers. Reading about them, you can see how the great man theory of history came about. These are such extraordinary people, so gifted in…

Now, I don't think it's as simple as that. Everyone's life is a labyrinth of choices and accidents that have many different parallel paths. Some lead to greatness, some to a smaller life. And who's to say that someone else might have been a better fit for the moment? Let's take George Washington. No man is more…

Richard Lim (1:43)

What do you think of when you hear the name George Washington? Do you think about the famous story of him chopping down the cherry tree? Or the fact that he was the first president of the United States? Or that his face is on the $1 bill?

217 years after his death, George Washington can seem more like a myth than a real person, more monument than man. And some might even call him boring. We learn that he was a man of integrity and weawn. Perhaps in our cynical times, we prefer our leaders a bit more complicated and a bit more human. In the first…

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