In this episode of the America at 250 podcast, Professors David Blight and Joanne Freeman discuss Beverly Gage's recent DeVane Lecture installments on the Progressive Era and the New Deal, including anecdotes about Warren Harding along the way. The conversation builds on the classroom lectures covering money, power, and Progressivism, and the New Deal response to the Great Depression under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Part of the companion podcast series to Yale's America at 250: A History course, the episode offers a more conversational take on material from the formal Battell Chapel lecture series on United States history from 1776 to the present.