The Last Best Hope?
Historian and broadcaster Professor Adam Smith explores the America of today through the lens of the past. Is America - as Abraham Lincoln once claimed - the last best hope of Earth?Produced by Oxford University’s world-leading Rothermere American Institute, each story-filled episode looks at the US from the outside in – delving into the political events, conflicts, speeches and songs that have shaped and embodied the soul of a nation.From the bloody battlefields of Gettysburg to fake news and g...
Episodes (171)
The Battle over the 250th Anniversary
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Why America Doesn't Love Soccer (Except When It Does)
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1776 and the break up of the United States
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The idea of America in British politics
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New Series Trailer
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Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 2
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Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 1
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Can federalism save American liberalism?
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Hillary Rodham Clinton on how America can save itself
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New Series Trailer: What’s Coming Next
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Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 2
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Why the Gettysburg Address Matters, Part 1
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How Will History Judge Joe Biden?
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The Myth of the Frontier
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Trump’s Second Term Foreign Policy in Historical Context
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Journalism and Democracy: Lessons from Walter Lippmann
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What just happened?
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The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 4: 2016
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God and Trump: Evangelicals and Politics in today's America
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The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 3: 2008
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The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 2: 2000
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Eugene V. Debs and America as the last, best hope for socialism?
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The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992
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Dark Money: Can billionaires buy elections in America?
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Rigged! Anxiety about election integrity in America
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Presidents and the Press
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The Black Founders, America and the Claim of Equality
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Morning Again in America: The 1984 Election forty years on.
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The strange death and curious rebirth of American cricket
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How have presidential primaries shaped modern US politics?
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How are Latino voters changing America?
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American Fascism
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The Last Best Hope? Season 11 Trailer
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The Destruction of the Tea, 250 Years On.
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The Kennedy Assassination and Conspiracy Culture
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What is a “Colorblind Constitution"?
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Is there a Paranoid Style in American Politics?
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The Last Best Hope? Season 10
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The Geordie South: How Northumbrians shaped Appalachia
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A City on a Hill: The exceptional history of a powerful metaphor
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America's role in Ukraine: a return to the last, best hope?
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Was there a Culture War in nineteenth century America?
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Are there lessons for Biden from the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson?
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The House Divided Episode
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The Second Amendment Episode
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The Black Ships Episode
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The Gettysburg Episode
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The Polarisation Episode
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The Propaganda Episode
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The Memorialising Covid Episode
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