Civics 101
NHPR
How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Civics 101 podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 19 episodes
A User's Guide to Democracy
Tom Toro
Hannah McCarthy
Nick Capodice
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Sidney Buchman
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
American by Birth, Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship
Carol Nackenoff
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A midwife's tale
the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
Susan Ericksen
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Summer of 1787
David O. Stewart
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Memories of a Hotel Man
Jimmy Harrington
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Bill of Rights, A User's Guide
Linda Monk
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies
Inalienable Rights
Aziz Huq
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power
Andy Rudalevige
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mr. Lancaster's System
How One Man Created America's Common Schools
Adam Laats
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Who Elected Big Tech?
Allison Stanger
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Not-Quite States of America
Doug Mack
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
I'm Terrified of Bath Time
Tom Toro
Simon Rich
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Actual Malice
Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan
Samantha Barbas
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Investigating the President
Congressional Checks on Presidential Power
Douglas L. Kriner
Eric Schickler
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Unruly Americans
Woody Holton
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
little darlings
Jacqueline Wilson
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Demagogue for President
Jennifer Mercieca
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
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Aziz Huq
