Mitch Jesserich curates a collection of his in-depth interviews on US History
Guest: Jack Kelly is a journalist, novelist, and historian, whose books include Band of Giants, which received the DAR’s History Award Medal, Heaven’s Ditch and his latest that we are in conversation about, The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
Guest: Robert Ovetz is a lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration at San José State University. He writes about the politics of the labor movement, work, and the crisis of capitalism at the turn of the 20th century. He is the author of the book When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to … Continued
Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg, author of the book Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray.
Candace Falk, author of Love, Anarchy & Emma Goldman: A Biography
Guest: Susan Berfield, award-winning investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. She is the author of the book The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism.
Guest: Ernest Freeberg, author of Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent.
Guest: Steve Early is a lawyer, organizer, union representative, a longtime labor journalist. He is the author of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress, The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor (Haymarket Books, 2011) and Embedded With Organized Labor (MRP, 2009).
Guest: Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Laws That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America.
Guest: Peter Afrasiabi, author of the book Burning Bridges: America’s 20-Year Crusade To Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges.
Guest: Pamela Haag is an award-winning nonfiction writer, essayist, cultural commentator, and historian. She has written several books including The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture.
