Emmy-winning actor and Broadway legend André de Shields narrates Making..., an original podcast from The HISTORY® Channel. Each season takes listeners inside the lives of history’s greatest figures and examines the events that forged these legends.

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Season one, Making Lincoln, takes you inside the life of our 16th President to discover how Abraham Lincoln, a boy from the frontiers of Indiana, became the one leader who could heal a nation put asunder by civil war. Each episode will bring together leading historians, authors and journalists to paint in vivid detail the forces that made the man Lincoln would become. 

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Season two, Making Grant, unpacks one of the most divisive figures in U.S. history, examining how Ulysses S. Grant went from Civil War hero and abolitionist president to bloody butcher and corrupt drunk in the eyes of the American public. Each episode will bring together leading historians, authors, and journalists to paint in vivid detail the forces that shaped the nation’s 18th president.

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Season three, Making Washington, brings together leading historians, authors and journalists to understand the journey of this remarkable, unlikely hero to Civil War general and president.

 

Season four, Making Teddy, takes you inside the life of a man who went from the big city to life on the frontier, from leading a cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War to leading the entire country from the White House. Each episode will bring together leading historians, authors and journalists to paint in vivid detail the forces that shaped Theodore Roosevelt into the pioneer he would become.