The Washington Post's Presidential podcast explores how each former American president reached office, made decisions, handled crises and redefined the role of commander-in-chief. It was released leading up to up to Election Day 2016, starting with George Washington in week one and ending on week 44 with the president-elect. New special episodes in the countdown to the 2020 presidential election highlight other stories from U.S. presidential history that can help illuminate our current moment. Hosted by Lillian Cunningham, the series features Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers like David McCullough and Washington Post journalists like Bob Woodward. [When you're done, listen to Lillian's other historical podcasts: Constitutional and Moonrise]
| Title | Date published | ||
| Abraham Lincoln: His hand and his pen | 2016-04-24 | ||
| James Buchanan: The bachelor and the bloodshed | 2016-04-18 | ||
| Franklin Pierce: Rolling off the tracks | 2016-04-10 | ||
| Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents | 2016-04-03 | ||
| Zachary Taylor: War heroes and conspiracy theory | 2016-03-27 | ||
| James K. Polk: Getting it done | 2016-03-20 | ||
| John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency | 2016-03-13 | ||
| William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death | 2016-03-06 | ||
| Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system | 2016-02-29 | ||
| Andrew Jackson: The violence, the fight | 2016-02-21 | ||
| John Quincy Adams: The trait that broke a presidency | 2016-02-14 | ||
| James Monroe: The Forrest Gump of presidents | 2016-02-07 | ||
| James Madison: Burning down the house | 2016-01-31 | ||
| Thomas Jefferson: On food and freedom | 2016-01-25 | ||
| John Adams: The case of the missing monument | 2016-01-18 | ||
| George Washington: The man, the myth, the legend | 2016-01-10 | ||
| Introduction: Welcome to Presidential | 2016-01-05 |