The Past, The Promise, The Presidency, Season One: Race and the American Legacy explores one of the most pressing issues in all of American history—the country’s troubled and difficult history of race relations. This season focuses on the history of the nation’s most powerful office, the President of the United States, and its complex relationship with race. Race and the American Legacy tells the full story of our country’s past, and its promise, and what the future might hold. Today, Americans are bound and determined to discuss both race and the presidency, so we figured we should at least get the history right!