The Soul of America

Know our past. Shape our future.

Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the country’s current political and historical moment by examining its past. Based on his 2018 bestseller of the same name.

Jon Meacham

John Lewis

(Self (archive footage))

George Takei

Lisa Tetrault

Donald Tamaki

Dale Minami

Janice Kelsey

Ronald Reagan

(Self (archive footage))

Jon Stewart

(Self (archive footage))

John Grisham

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

George W. Bush

(Self (archive footage))

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Self (archive footage))

George H. W. Bush

(Self (archive footage))

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(Self (archive footage))

Jeb Bush

(Self (archive footage))

Joseph McCarthy

(Self (archive footage))

Edward R. Murrow

(Self (archive footage))

Peter Jennings

(Self (archive footage))

Lyndon B. Johnson

(Self (archive footage))

Mitch McConnell

(Self (archive footage))

Charles A. Lindbergh

(Self (archive footage))

Fritz Kuhn

(Self (archive footage))