In addition to bringing news to an audience of 13 million people as the host of Morning Edition, Inskeep is a historian and best-selling author. His most recent book, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, traces Lincoln’s life and work through a divisive period of American history.

“As I approach that task of covering America and covering the world, I do try to take a long view, and that is one reason, besides just my personal interest, that I write history, that I research history,” said Inskeep in his remarks to Governors. “You realize that while the issues have changed, the technology has changed phenomenally, human nature does not change that quickly, and our basic republican – small R republican – system has not changed completely.”

Along with his address to Governors, Inskeep also sat down for interviews with New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, and Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon.

Their conversations touched on the upcoming presidential transition and its impact on western states, regional energy and transmission issues, trade and tariffs, and more.

Those conversations aired on NPR’s Morning Edition – the most widely heard radio program in the country – on December 12 and 13. Listen to the stories below.