{"podcast":{"title":"History As It Happens","slug":"history-as-it-happens-7112446","podcast_index_feed_id":7112446,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/317972/rss","website_url":"https://historyasithappens.supercast.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/4/d/1/44d17a1c5092053027a2322813b393ee/Martin_Square_241008.png","author":"Martin Di Caro","episode_count":611,"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":"2026-07-30T18:21:01.807043+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-7112446"},"episode":{"title":"Joseph Ellis' \"Tragic Side\"","slug":"joseph-ellis-tragic-side","published_at":"2026-07-28T09:53:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-7112446/joseph-ellis-tragic-side","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-as-it-happens-7112446","url":"https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/joseph-ellis-tragic-side","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/historyasithappens/HH-FREE-569-260728.mp3?dest-id=2566565","summary":"Become a subscriber for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Was it possible for the leaders of the new American republic to end slavery entirely? Was the violent dispossession of Native peoples inevitable? These questions are integral to the eminent historian Joseph Ellis' new book about what he calls the two major failures of the revolutionary generation, \" The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding. \" Other questions to consider while listening are whether the Constitution consisted of compromises over slavery or capitulations to Southern slave interests. Also, whether Native Americans' views of land and property could ever be compatible with those of land-hungry white settlers. Further listening (America250 series): Episode 1 w/ Lindsay Chervinsky Episode 2 w/ Kate Carté Episode 3 w/ Alan Taylor Episode 4 w/ Lindsay Chervinsky Episode 5 w/ Jim Oakes Episode 6 w/ Sean Wilentz Episode 7 w/ H.W. Brands Episode 8 w/ Alan Taylor","meta_description":"Become a subscriber for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Was it possible for the leaders of the new American republic to end slavery en…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2059,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/history-as-it-happens-7112446/episodes/joseph-ellis-tragic-side/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-7112446/joseph-ellis-tragic-side.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}