How Pauli Murray Made the Civil War Matter Today. Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg, author of Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday-Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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.
Part I: The 1850s. Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Guest: Naomi Klein, journalist and author of the book On Fire, The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Guest: Michael Koncewicz, historian and author of the book They Said No to Nixon Guest: Arthur Eckstein, historian of Ancient Rome and author of the book Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution
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 Guest: Timothy Faust, author of Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
Guest: Mel Goodman, former CIA Analyst at the CIA and author of American Carnage: The Wars of Donald Trump
Guest: John Nichols, The Nation Magazine Documentary from Brian Edwards-Tiekert on the Climate Strike in NYC.
Guest: William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire