Vital Remnants, a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, is a podcast hosted by academics, experts, and guests of the McConnell Center, who will walk you through great texts in human history.

Designed to accompany your own reading of the text, Season Seven focuses on exploring the McConnell Center's newest publication, America's Autobiography: Key Documents that Tell Our Story.

For this episode, Dr. Jonathan den Hartog joins to talk about the effect of Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address.

Jonathan Den Hartog is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Samford University. His interests are in the religious and political history of the colonial, revolutionary and early national periods of America. His first book, Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2015.

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