What Trump’s Acquittal Means For Future Impeachments
February 7, 2020
On Wednesday, the Senate acquitted President Trump, bringing to an end a months-long effort by Democrats to remove him from office. Jeffrey A. Engel is director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and co-author of “Impeachment: An American History.”
The Way of Improvement Leads Home
January 23, 2020
Are you watching Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial? Are you trying to make sense of it all? We want to help.
What Ken Starr Brings To Donald Trump’s Impeachment Defense
January 20, 2020
As the Senate begins impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump this week, one of the major players, and one of the newest, has deep Texas ties…
America Are We Ready? A November Democracy Big Think – WNYC
November 24, 2019
With just under a year until Americans elect their next president, let’s discuss what’s working and what’s broken; what’s threatened and what’s missing in American democracy?
All Things Considered – NPR
November 17, 2019
NPR’s Michel Martin poses listener questions about the impeachment inquiry to historian Jeffrey Engel, co-author of Impeachment: An American History.
Jeffrey A. Engel—Impeachment Then and Now, S3 Bonus Episode
November 5, 2019
Historian Jeffrey A. Engel joins host Marty Duren to talk about American presidential impeachments and the potential impeachment of Donald Trump.
How President Bush Made The Call On The 2007 Iraq Surge
October 22, 2019
Jeffrey A. Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, and Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, join host Krys Boyd to talk about the behind-the-scenes White House strategy that led to the troop surge…
Is impeachment a fair process?
October 4, 2019
In the United States, the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump – only the fourth president to face such an investigation – has become the most talked about issue in Washington…
Republican dam of support for Trump ‘could break in a hurry,’ says impeachment expert
September 25, 2019
The United States may only have impeached two sitting presidents, but one historian says those cases can tell us something about the new inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump…
The Impeachment Process Begins
September 25, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that House Democrats would launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden…
In The Past Lane
July 31, 2019
This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, I speak with historian Jeffrey Engel, co-author of “Impeachment: An American History.” With all the talk about impeachment over the past two years, this seems like a superb moment to do an episode on the history of this rarely-used constitutional mechanism.
Justice Interruptus
April 26, 2019
A week after the redacted Mueller report’s release, Democrats weigh the risks — and imperatives — of impeachment. On this week’s On the Media, why our founders gave congress the power to oust the president in the first place. Plus, the forgotten roots of May Day, the international workers’ holiday.
The Redacted Mueller Report Is Public. Here’s What We Know
April 18, 2019
The Mueller report is out. Redacted by the Justice Department, shipped up to Congress and released to the public. We break it down in a special live evening broadcast.
All The Presidents’ Vetoes: A Brief History of Saying No To Legislation
April 4, 2019
This week BackStory looks at presidential vetoes through two periods in American history. First, Joanne unpacks Washington’s complicated feelings about his first – and only – veto. Then, Brian speaks with historian Jeffrey Engel about how President Trump’s recent use of the veto pen fits into the big picture of presidents saying ‘thanks, but no thanks.’
The Mother Jones Podcast
January 30, 2019
The annual State of the Union address: What exactly is the point? On the one hand, Nancy Pelosi’s Shutdown Smackdown put President Donald Trump in a corner by threatening to deny all that attention and adulation during a prime-time slot. On the other hand, maybe it’s time to scrap this extravagant, overbaked format altogether?
Morning Edition – NPR
December 5, 2018
Rachel Martin talks to presidential historian Jeffrey Engel, who remembers former President George H.W. Bush as a globalist, and as a president who felt entitled to power.
How pardons hang over the Mueller investigation
November 21, 2018
This week on POLITICO’s Nerdcast we’re taking a break from our usual routine to take a look at presidential pardons.
The Road to Now – Bob Crawford & Ben Sawyer
October 15, 2018
Bob and Ben speak with Jeffrey Engel about the history of Presidential impeachment and how understanding the past can inform the debates surrounding the impeachment of current and future Presidents.
The History of Impeachment
Oct 15, 2018
Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton each served as president of the United States — and each faced impeachment while in office. Jeffrey A. Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, joins us to take a balanced look at the practice…
The Brian Lehrer Show – WNYC
Nov 8, 2017
Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and the author of When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), talks about how President George H.W. Bush handled the multiple challenges of 1989 and the end of the Cold War.
Texas Standard – The National Daily News Show of Texas
April 18, 2018
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, you could be fired if your employer discovered you’d done something like volunteering to work with AIDS patients. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was, at the time, considered a death sentence, saddled with the stigma as a disease spread by drug users and gay men.
Unpacking The Confusing Signals We’re Getting from the Mueller Probe
April 11, 2018
We have become accustomed to the weekly news cycle being interrupted by the quarter turn of information about Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election… Henderson also speaks with presidential historian Jeffrey Engel about how past administrations have handled internal or personal crises while balancing the challenges of running the country.
How Does U.S. Foreign Policy Today Differ From The Post-Cold War Era?
January 17, 2018
The Trump administration has adopted a foreign policy dramatically different from its predecessors, especially those in the post-Cold War world. As part of the “America First” slogan, President Trump has decided the U.S. should be less involved with its allies and not spend nearly as much money supporting NATO, for example.
Why Bush 41 Was the Anti-Trump
Nov 9, 2017
As the Soviet Union crumbled, George H.W. Bush’s strategy was simple: say nothing. Historian Jeffrey Engel tells us about Bush’s plain oratory and his relationship with the USSR’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.
George H. W. Bush: Restraint
Oct 9, 2016
The more the American political climate today resembles a personality-driven reality show, the more the country’s nostalgia seems to grow for restrained elder statesmen like George H. W. Bush.