America has a rampant trust problem.

We have a president who doesn’t trust the intelligence community. We have media organizations who don't trust the president. We have the American people, who don't trust the media (according to a recent Pew survey, only 32% of Americans say they have a great deal of trust in the media.) And this lack of confidence extends to our government and to our own communities.

Is this symptomatic of 21st-century living? Or have we been here before, during the Vietnam War, or the Great Depression?

Joining Boston Public Radio to put this in historical context was historian Nancy Koehn of the Harvard Business School. To hear her take, tune in to Boston Public Radio above.