For the Ages: A History Podcast

Mourning the Presidents

February 19, 2024 New-York Historical Society Season 3 Episode 20
For the Ages: A History Podcast
Mourning the Presidents
Show Notes

In an incisive analysis of national mourning following the deaths of presidents across US history, historian Lindsay Chervinsky joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss how such losses and the subsequent expressions of grief affected American culture and politics. Examining what can be learned from the ways we have grieved and remembered late presidents since the passing of George Washington in 1799, Chervinsky explores the way presidents continue to shape America even in death.
Recorded on August 7, 2023