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Letters and Politics

10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday

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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

Letters and Politics

The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon

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05.08.25 - 10:00am

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Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.  He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.


Letters and Politics

The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company

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05.07.25 - 10:00am

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Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.


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How Ancient India Changed The World: From Buddhism to Math

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05.06.25 - 10:00am

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Guest: William Dalrymple is a historian, curator, broadcaster and critic. He is the author of The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.


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When Science & Magic Intermingled

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05.05.25 - 10:00am

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Violet Moller is a critically acclaimed and award-winning historian and author of Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe.


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The Life & Times of Lucy Parsons

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05.01.25 - 10:00am

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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


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When Workers Shot Back

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04.30.25 - 10:00am

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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


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Hitler’s First 100 Days

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04.29.25 - 10:00am

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Guest: Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich.


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America: What’s In A Name?

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04.28.25 - 10:00am

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Guest: Greg Grandin is a Professor of History at Yale University and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of many books including The End of the Myth; The Empire of Necessity; Fordlandia; and his latest, América, América: A New History of the New World.


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Women In The Ancient World

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04.24.25 - 10:00am

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Guest: Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and the author of The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World.  Her website is www.daisydunn.co.uk.


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What Monsters Tell Us About Us

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04.23.25 - 10:00am

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Guest: Natalie Lawrence, author of Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meaning.


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