Letters and Politics

11.23.23 - 10:00am

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Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times.  Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, They Marched into … Continued

11.22.23 - 10:00am

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Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.

11.21.23 - 10:00am

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Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of such books including, West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist … Continued

11.20.23 - 10:00am

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Part 1: Aileen Alfandary’s Documentary on Spain’s Memory Law. Photo (c): Aileen Alfandary. In The picture is Emilio Silva, founder of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory.  He’s holding the ring of his grandfather who was executed in 1936 by the forces of former dictator Francisco Franco. Part 2: Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz escaped Fascism … Continued

11.13.23 - 10:00am

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Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution.