Elizabeth Spalding: The Historian Behind PragerU's Presidential Portraits

Showing 4 Elizabeth Spalding videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Elizabeth Spalding, a senior fellow at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, narrates a series of PragerU history videos examining twentieth-century American presidents, including George W. Bush's response to the September 11th attacks, where she credits his administration's team, including Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice, with launching the war on terror and toppling Afghanistan's Taliban government within two months of the invasion. Spalding separately profiles Harry Truman's transformation from a Missouri farmer who never finished college into the nation's 33rd president after Franklin Roosevelt's sudden death left him just 82 days into the vice presidency, crediting Truman's Cold War decisions, including the Berlin Airlift, the Marshall Plan, and recognition of Israel, with preserving Western civilization against Soviet expansion despite Truman leaving office with the lowest approval rating in American history at that time. Spalding's videos consistently frame consequential presidential leadership as rooted in personal character and decisive judgment under pressure rather than popularity or polling.