Guest: Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast The Political Scene.
Guest: David Blight, professor of history at Yale University and author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Guest: Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and Co-President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.
Guest: Bruce Levine, author of Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice. He is also professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois.
Now it is Today, a story written and performed by Jennifer Stone from her book, Over By the Caves.
Now it is Today, a story written and performed by Jennifer Stone from her book, Over By the Caves.
An original story from Jennifer, Beatific Blue about the year 1950.
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, an English literature professor, currently Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of the book Henry David Thoreau, A Life.
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.