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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.

Letters & Politics US History Collection

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.

Letters & Politics US History Collection

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

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”

Letters & Politics US History Collection

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

Letters & Politics US History Collection

The Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad and the Strike of 1867

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04.24.21

By Mitch Jeserich

Guest: Gordon H. Chang is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and co director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. He is the author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story … Continued

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