C-SPAN’s “America Book Club” — Presidential historian Jon Meacham discusses the contradictions of Thomas Jefferson authoring the Declaration of Independence while also being a slaveholder. Watch the entire interview, filmed at the Library of Congress, at c-span.org/abc #jefferson #books #booksofinstagram #cspan #cspanabc | C-SPAN

C-SPAN’s “America’s Book Club” — Presidential historian Jon Meacham talks about Andrew Jackson’s legacy as a “complicated figure.” Watch the entire interview, filmed at the Library of Congress, at c-span.org/abc #booksofinstagram #books #president #cspan #cspanabc | C-SPAN

“We fought wars not for conquest; we fought wars to liberate. And history honors liberators, not captors.” Historian Jon Meacham gives his take on the 2020 hopefuls and shares the one sentence that all Americans should apply to their lives to move forward together. https://abcn.ws/2RiH3wd | The View

Historian Jon Meacham on why Trump's "fear of the other" rhetoric works: “It has always worked to some extent... President Trump is the most vivid manifestation of our worst instincts. The fear of the other, the paranoid style of conspiracy, [is] that the immigrants are coming." | The View

Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biographer Jon Meacham on the importance of Harvard standing up to Trump's fearmongering | The Daily Show

Historian Jon Meacham predicts the political pendulum could swing from a President Trump to a President AOC | The Daily Show