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.
Letters & Politics US History Collection
Mitch Jesserich curates a collection of his in-depth interviews on US History
Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and … Continued
Guest: Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and the Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. Her latest book is Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American … Continued
Guest: Louis S. Warren is the W Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at U.C. Davis. He is the author of the book author of Buffalo Bill’s America, American Environmental History, and most recently, God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America.
Guest: Deborah G. Plant is an African American literature and Africana Studies scholar and literary critic whose special interest is the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. She is the author of Barracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo.”
Guest: Alice L. Baumgartner is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.
Julia Flynn Siler, author of The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Guest: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello and her latest, On Juneteenth.
Guest: Stephen Kinzer, an award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as The New York Times bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as The Boston Globes Latin America correspondent. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for The … Continued
Guest: Clay Risen is a historian and a reporter and editor at The New York Times. He is the author of several books including The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019, and his latest, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.