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UpFront's Rethinking History Collection

A dozen conversations to change the way you think about the past.

Pre-history: 

  • Geologist-Paleontologist Andrew Knoll on the first 4 billion years of Earth’s history.
  • Archaeologist David Wengrow on the book he co-authored with the late David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 
  • Anthropologist Brian Fagan on Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival From Our Ancestors 
  • Science writer Annalee Newitz on her book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age 
  • Mark Bittman on Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

Native peoples and colonialism: 

  • Damon Akins on We Are the Land: A History of Native California 
  • David Silverman author of This Land is Their Land, on the real history of Thanksgiving
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her book Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion 

Black life and liberation: 

  • Frederika Newton with a personal history of the early years of the Black Panther Party 
  • Berry Reid Soskin on the book about her remarkable century on this planet, Sign My Name to Freedom: A memoir of a pioneering life 
  • Malik Al Nasir on Gil Scott-Heron
  • David F. Walker on The Black Panther Party
  • David F. Walker on Frederic Douglass

Photo by Benigno Hoyuela on Unsplash

UpFront's Rethinking History Collection

Andrew Knoll on Earth’s first four billion years

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03.08.22

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

Andrew Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard, discusses A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters 

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David Walker on Frederick Douglass

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03.08.22

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

David Walker discusses his first foray into graphic nonfiction, The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom

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David Walker on the Black Panther Party

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03.08.22

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

David Walker’s latest book is The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History.

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Malik Al Nasir on Gil Scott Heron

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12.14.21

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

Malik Al Nasir is a journalist, filmmaker, academic and performance poet, and now author of Letters to Gil    

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Betty Reid Soskin on her remarkable century

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12.07.21

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest living national park service ranger–she just turned 100. Her memoir is Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life. (This conversation is from when it came out, in 2018) 

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Fredrika Newton on Huey Newton and the Black Panthers

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12.07.21

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

Fredrika Newton, former member of the Black Panther Party, and the widow of its co-founder, Huey P. Newton.

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on why we’re not a “nation of immigrants”

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12.07.21

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,  radical historian, author of many books. The latest is Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

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David Silverman on the Real History of Thanksgiving

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12.07.21

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

David Silverman is a professor of history at George Washington University. His most recent book is This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.

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Damon Akins on A History of Native California

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12.07.21

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

Damon B. Akins, professor of history at Guilford College, co-author of We Are the Land: A History of Native California

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Mark Bittman on A History of Food

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12.07.21

By Brian Edwards-Tiekert

Mark Bittman, long-time food journalist who spent over 30 years at the New York Times. Now the author of the new book Animal Vegetable Junk: A History of Food From Sustainable to Uuicidal.

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