Guest: William Jay Risch is a professor of history at Georgia College. He specializes on Eastern Europe and is the author of the book The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv.
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.
Guest: Peter Cozzens is a historian and the author and/or editor of sixteen books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize. His latest book is Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America’s Heartland.
Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a national political reporter focusing on democracy issues. Image: Wikipedia (GPA Photo Archive, https://flic.kr/p/BrRNcA; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)
Guest: Activist and politician Colia Lafayette Clark is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power movement, and Pan-African movement. She was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and played a key role establishing equal voting rights in Selma, Alabama. Photo by History in HD on Unsplash
Guest Host Max Pringle talks to Mitchell Schwarzer about His new book is Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption. Professor Schwarzer teaches Architectural and Urban History at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
Guest: Geoff Manaugh is a regular contributor for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, and other publications. He is the coauthor, with Nicola Twilley, of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. Image: Wikipedia
Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of … Continued
Guest: Adam Jentleson is the Executive Director of Battle Born Collective and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid. He is a columnist for GQ and the author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.
Today, host Max Pringle is filling in for Mitch Jeserich. Part I – The January 6 Attack and the Fracture of Democracy Guest: Talia Lavin author of Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Part II – A History of The Silk Road Guest: Valerie Hansen is Stanley Woodward Professor of … Continued
Guest: Timothy Brennan is the author of several books, including At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now; Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies; and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation, and his latest, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. Professor Brennan teaches in the humanities at the University of Minnesota.