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Letters & Politics US History Collection

Mitch Jesserich curates a collection of his in-depth interviews on US History

Letters & Politics US History Collection

Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part 2

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05.01.21

By Mitch Jeserich

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.

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Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part 3

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04.30.21

By Mitch Jeserich

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.

Letters & Politics US History Collection

Henrietta Wood and the Quest for Reparations

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04.29.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: W. Caleb McDaniel is associate professor of history at Rice University in Houston. He won the Pulitzer price in History in 2020 for his book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America.

Letters & Politics US History Collection

The First Impeachment on a President and the Undoing of the Civil War Promise

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04.29.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Brenda Wineapple is the author of the book The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.

Letters & Politics US History Collection

Victoria Woodhull: A Presidential Candidate Before Female Suffrage

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04.28.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Ellen Fitzpatrick, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of the book The Highest Glass Ceiling.

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The First Black Congressional Members

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04.27.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Philip Dray, author of Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen

Letters & Politics US History Collection

Marx In America

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04.26.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Andrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, and his latest, Karl Marx in America.

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The Controversial Election of 1876 & The End of Reconstruction

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04.26.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Richard Kreitner, author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of Americas Imperfect Union.

Letters & Politics US History Collection

How the Civil War Amendment Meant for Former Slaves Went to Corporations

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04.25.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Lawrence Goldstone author of “Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903”

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How Corporations Won Civil Rights

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04.25.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Adam Winkler, is a historian and law professor, specializing in American Constitutional Law.  He us the author of We The Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

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