23 Episodes

  1. Introducing, "The Sports Moment"

    Published: 7/26/2024

  2. Introducing “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop”

    Published: 10/16/2023

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

    Published: 6/29/2023

  4. Introducing “Field Trip”

    Published: 6/14/2023

  5. Introducing "Broken Doors"

    Published: 4/27/2022

  6. Ourselves and our posterity

    Published: 2/12/2018

  7. The First Amendment

    Published: 1/29/2018

  8. Privacy

    Published: 1/15/2018

  9. Prohibition

    Published: 1/1/2018

  10. Taxes

    Published: 12/18/2017

  11. The common defense

    Published: 12/4/2017

  12. War

    Published: 11/20/2017

  13. Love

    Published: 11/6/2017

  14. Fair punishment

    Published: 10/23/2017

  15. Fair trials

    Published: 10/9/2017

  16. Congress and citizens

    Published: 9/25/2017

  17. Senate and states

    Published: 9/11/2017

  18. Gender

    Published: 8/28/2017

  19. Race

    Published: 8/21/2017

  20. Nationality

    Published: 8/14/2017

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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.