10-05-2025
How America's national narratives have shaped the US
In the restoration of Donald Trump, many historians see echoes of ugly chapters in the American story. The 1830s, and the presidency of Andrew Jackson, a Democrat who rode roughshod over Congress and the Supreme Court and the 1930s, which saw a resurgence of the American far right. Ahead of her talk at Sydney's UTS Vice-Chancellor's Democracy Forum, renowned historian Sarah Churchwell unpacks the national narratives that have shaped the U.S.
Guest: Sarah Churchwell, historian and professor of American Literature and Public Understanding, University of London and co-host of the podcast, Journey Through Time.
