An Oral History Project. Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a scholar of Indigenous History, radical writer and author of the book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
An Oral History Project. Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a scholar of Indigenous History, radical writer and author of the book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868. Guest: Alan Hirsch, lecturer in Humanities, Chair of Justice and Law Studies at Williams College and author of the book Impeaching the President: Past, Present and Future.
Political Violence in the 1850’s. Guest: Joanne B. Freeman, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, leading authority on early national politics and political culture and author of The Field of the Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.
The Colored Convention and the Creation of the Citizen. Guest: Martha S. Jones, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.
How Pauli Murray Made the Civil War Matter Today. Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg, author of Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray.
The Reconstruction Amendments and How They’ve Created Our Political World Today. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln, the Radical Republicans & Andrew Johnson. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Part I: The 1850s. Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Guest: Naomi Klein, journalist and author of the book On Fire, The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal