{"podcast":{"title":"History As It Happens","slug":"history-as-it-happens-3075146","podcast_index_feed_id":3075146,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/o5fFlDxe","website_url":"https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/dfaf0741-8636-49cc-8b39-ca0cb6ecc4d6/df293f2a-95b5-4206-9257-4fcbef37164c/3000x3000/martin-square-241008.png?aid=rss_feed","author":"Martin Di Caro","episode_count":600,"summary":"Discover how the past shapes the present with the best historians in the world. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. History As It Happens features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. Subscribe for ad-free episodes, early access, and bonus content. https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T22:18:58.951064+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146"},"episode":{"title":"The Death of Lindsey Graham","slug":"the-death-of-lindsey-graham","published_at":"2026-07-12T17:56:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146/the-death-of-lindsey-graham","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146","url":"https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-death-of-lindsey-graham","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/historyasithappens/HH-SPECIAL-260712b.mp3?dest-id=2566565","summary":"This is a special episode of History As It Happens. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is dead. His office says Graham died from \"a brief and sudden illness\" on Saturday night in Washington. He was 71. Graham was first elected to the U.S. House in 1994 and the Senate in 2002. He was seeking a fifth term in the midterm elections this November. After first condemning Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, the conservative Republican turned into one of Trump's most fawning supporters. In this episode, University of Texas at Austin historian Jeremi Suri examines Graham's extensive legislative and political legacy. Jeremi Suri writes the Democracy of Hope newsletter on Substack. Subscribe to skip ads! https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","meta_description":"This is a special episode of History As It Happens. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is dead. His office says Graham died from \"a brief and sudden il…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1106,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-as-it-happens-3075146/episodes/the-death-of-lindsey-graham/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-3075146/the-death-of-lindsey-graham.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}