
Understand
James Naughtie examines the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States.

Episodes (78 available)

How have Americans understood the connection between economic and democratic freedom?
43 mins

How has 'justice' been understood by different generations of Americans?
42 mins

The idea of freedom is foundational to America, but whose freedom, and what kind?
42 mins

Justin Webb looks at five big US foreign policy shifts, from Monroe to Trump.
2 mins

What is the 1823 doctrine, and how has it been used since by US presidents?
14 mins

What impact did WWII have on US policy towards the rest of the world?
14 mins

How did the Vietnam War change America’s foreign policy?
14 mins

How US policy changed towards the Soviet Union and the challenge of communism.
14 mins

How the September 11 attacks led to conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
17 mins
