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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Tim Madigan is veteran journalist an award-winning writer. For many years he covered the history of the Greenwood Massacre for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He is the author of The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. To find more about Tim Madigan’s writings visit his website: timmadigan.net Photo Source: … Continued
Guest: Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of West from Appomattox, and To Make Men Free. Her latest is How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. She writes Letters from an American, daily newsletter about the … Continued
Guest: Doug J. Swanson is a veteran reporter and editor, he spent much of his carrier at the Dallas Morning News. Currently he is a research assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several books including Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, The Texas Gangster who … Continued
Guest: Michael Powelson, author of Swindlers All: A Brief History of Government/Business Frauds from Alexander Hamilton to AIG. He is a history professor who teaches at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo and L.A. Valley College in Van Nuys. Dr. Powelson has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York, and master’s and bachelor degrees from Tulane University in … Continued
Guest: W. David Ball, professor of law at the Santa Clara University School of Law. His work focuses primarily in the fields of criminal justice, criminal procedure, sentencing and corrections.
Guest: Clayborne Carson is The Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford University. In 1985, Carson had been specifically chosen by Coretta Scott King to pull together Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers and archives into a comprehensive and official collection (which ran seven volumes).
Funeral held for George Floyd
Guests: Sylvia Allegretto is a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley. Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and politics in Modern Europe. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, and … Continued
Guest: Anna Feigenbaum, author of Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today (Rebroadcast)
Guests: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of African American Studies at Princeton University. Professor Glaude is the author of several books including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; his most recent, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our … Continued
