A history interview podcast
The past isn't over. Press play.
Long-form conversations with historians, leaders, and changemakers — recovering the stories and moments that shaped our world, one rewind at a time.
A history interview podcast
Long-form conversations with historians, leaders, and changemakers — recovering the stories and moments that shaped our world, one rewind at a time.
I sit down with historians, journalists, leaders, and changemakers to uncover the stories and moments that shaped our world — bringing history to life through conversations that connect past and present.
Most history gets flattened into dates and headlines. Replay the Rewind does the opposite: it slows down and asks the people who lived near a moment what it actually felt like, and why it still matters.
Each episode is researched and written before a single question is asked. The result is long-form, unhurried, and built for the questions that don't fit inside a 60-second news clip.
With Dr. Al Acres · Georgetown Art Historian
A conversation exploring how art may predate language itself — and how images first gave early people a way to give shape to their ideas, fears, and needs.
With Dr. Kurt Newman · Former CEO, Children's National Hospital
On the Vietnam era, a formative experience inside a hospital, and the path that redirected one man's ambition from public policy to hands-on patient care.
With Michael Beschloss · Presidential Historian
On being the first outsider to hear Lyndon Johnson's 700 hours of secret tapes — and how private recordings turn presidents from cardboard cutouts into three-dimensional human beings.
With Kenneth Woodard · AP U.S. History Teacher
On how historians turn evidence into understanding — and why that skill matters far beyond the classroom. The Constitution's legacy and its contradictions, recurring arguments over immigration and polarization, the overlooked force of economics, Reconstruction, the pandemic's long shadow, and the presidents who keep coming back into the conversation.
With Erin Egan · Chief Privacy Officer, Policy, Meta
On the parallels between the internet arriving in the 1990s and AI arriving now — from someone who worked through the first transition, and on what a technology nobody has rules for yet does to a career built around writing them.
Founder · Host
Founder & host
I'm a student with a deep interest in history, politics, and the way the past keeps shaping the present. I research every episode, write the questions, conduct the interviews, and work with an editor in production.
Replay the Rewind started as a way to share my belief that learning history makes life richer. Along the way it became something more — a sustained conversation across generations, built around the simple act of being listened to.
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