Soaring prices and meat shortages fueled a wave election. We're talking, of course, about 1946.

In that mid-term election, a Republican wave swept Democrats out of control of Congress. Their winning slogan? "Had Enough?"

Bob explores the frustrations behind the landslide, an election that brought Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, and Joseph McCarthy to Washington, and the surprising comeback that followed. From kitchen-table economics to the limits of political mandates, what can 1946 teach us about why voters demand change—and how quickly the tide can turn?

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During World War II, the United States incarcerated more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry. But Japanese Americans weren't the only people imprisoned, relocated, or restricted as suspected "enemy aliens." Thousands of German and Italian immigrants—and some of their American-born children—were also caught in the government's wartime policies.

Historian John Schmitz, author of Enemies Among Us, joins Bob Crawford to explain how fear of an enemy within led to arrests, forced relocation, family separation, property loss, and internment camps across the country. Some prisoners were even held at Ellis Island, within sight of the Statue of Liberty.

John also shares his family's experience: his father spent three years behind barbed wire, and his aunt was born inside the Crystal City internment camp in Texas.

How did these policies differ from the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans? Who was targeted—and why has the German and Italian experience largely disappeared from our history?

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How accurate is Steven Spielberg's Lincoln? And what did the movie get wrong?

Listener Elijah wants to know how closely the 2012 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis matches the real history of Abraham Lincoln—and there may be no better person to answer than Harold Holzer, one of America's leading Lincoln historians and the film's principal historical advisor.

Harold takes Bob Crawford behind the scenes of Lincoln, explaining what the movie gets remarkably right—and where Hollywood took some liberties. He reveals how the filmmakers approached Lincoln's voice, personality, storytelling, political maneuvering, and relationship with the people around him.

The conversation goes deep into the dramatic struggle to pass the 13th Amendment, including Lincoln's efforts to win Democratic votes, his secret meeting with Confederate peace commissioners, and the complicated politics surrounding emancipation. Harold also weighs in on the movie's portrayals of Thaddeus Stevens, Mary Todd Lincoln, Edwin Stanton, and Lincoln himself.

And then there's the historical detail Harold warned screenwriter Tony Kushner about—one that Spielberg decided was simply too dramatically effective to change.

If you love Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, historical movies, or the question of where Hollywood ends and history begins, this episode is for you.

Featuring Harold Holzer, Lincoln historian, author, and historical advisor to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.