Guest: Robert Elder, professor of history at Baylor University. Author of the book Calhoun: American Heretic.
Letters and Politics
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – January 3, 2022
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: David M. Henkin is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are.
Guest: Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and author of Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
Guest: Andrew Roberts, author of The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III.
Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton); From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, and his latest, Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (Princeton).
Guest: Tyson Slocum is the director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program. For the last 25 years Tyson has been promoting an equitable energy transition that provides distributed renewable energy generation and sustainable transportation solutions for working families. Photo by Chris LeBoutillier on Unsplash
Guest: Greg Grandin is professor of history at Yale University. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction in 2020 for his book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. He has also republished his book from 2006 Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making … Continued
Guest: John Nichols is the National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation magazine. His latest book is The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics.