The nation is weeks away from getting a new president. We spend the hour talking about presidential history in Georgia. Not the one president who was born here, Jimmy Carter, but some of the lesser-known connections between the Peach State and the White House.

Hillary Clinton did not become the first female president of the United States. But she was the first female presidential nominee of a major party. Not the first presidential nominee of any party, though. That title goes to Victoria Woodhull, who ran for president in 1872. Her candidacy made her a trailblazer during a time that pre-dated even Women’s Suffrage. A TV documentary about Woodhull called “America’s Victoria” was produced in 1998. We talked with Atlanta filmmaker Victoria Lynn Weston, who was behind the documentary. 

After Donald Trump is inaugurated as president, it’s assumed he’ll appoint someone to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ultimately decides how to interpret the language of the Constitution. And because we’re focused on Georgia’s presidential history this hour, we thought we would talk about the rule that’s named for the country’s third president. What exactly did the Founding Fathers intend? The answer to that depends on who you ask. We asked Georgia State University history professor David Sehat and Stan Deaton of the Georgia Historical Society for their interpretations. 

Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Rail Splitter, Honest Abe and Uncle Abraham. Lincoln was many things to many people, but one historian is looking at Lincoln through his Southern sensibilities. Vernon Burton is the author of “The Age of Lincoln” and he talked with us about how the South influenced the Great Emancipator. Joining him was Louisiana State University history professor Bill Cooper and New York University history professor Martha Hodes.

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