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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Andrej Grubacic, former teacher at the University of Rojava and is the founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Andrej talks with Mitch about Rojava the autonomous, mostly Kurdish region of Northeastern Syria. From Dissent magazine: “Turkey’s invasion of Rojava is not only a source of … Continued
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, an English literature professor, currently Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of the book Henry David Thoreau, A Life.
An Oral History Project. Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a scholar of Indigenous History, radical writer and author of the book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
An Oral History Project. Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a scholar of Indigenous History, radical writer and author of the book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868. Guest: Alan Hirsch, lecturer in Humanities, Chair of Justice and Law Studies at Williams College and author of the book Impeaching the President: Past, Present and Future.
Political Violence in the 1850’s. Guest: Joanne B. Freeman, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, leading authority on early national politics and political culture and author of The Field of the Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.
The Colored Convention and the Creation of the Citizen. Guest: Martha S. Jones, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.
How Pauli Murray Made the Civil War Matter Today. Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg, author of Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray.
The Reconstruction Amendments and How They’ve Created Our Political World Today. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln, the Radical Republicans & Andrew Johnson. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
