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Podcast #165 – Rachel Jamison Webster

This week we interview Rachel Jamison Webster, professor of creative writing at Northwestern University and the author of four books of poetry and cross-genre writing. Her latest book, Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family, w

February 16, 2024 30:48 Speakers: Rachel Jamison Webster, Tamara Payne

Podcast #164 – David Waldstreicher

This week we interview David Waldstreicher, a history professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and author of his latest book, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: a Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence, published by F

February 9, 2024 27:35 Speakers: David Waldstreicher, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Podcast #163 – Tanisha C. Ford

This week we interview Tanisha C. Ford, a cultural critic, educator, and author. Her latest book, Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon, and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, was published by Amistad in October 2023. Ford has writt

February 2, 2024 29:42 Speakers: A’Lelia Bundles, Tanisha C. Ford

Podcast #162 – Dean King

This week we interview Dean King whose latest book, Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite, was published by Scribner in March 2023. King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books including Skeletons on the Zah

January 26, 2024 29:06 Speakers: Brian Jay Jones, Dean King

Podcast #161 – Brad Snyder

This week we interview Brad Snyder, author of Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2022. As a Georgetown University law professor, Snyder teaches

January 19, 2024 27:42 Speakers: Brad Snyder, Jennifer Skoog

Podcast #160 – Yunte Huang

This week we interview Yunte Huang, a Guggenheim Fellow and author of Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History, published by Liveright in August 2023. Huang has taught at Harvard University and the University of California

January 12, 2024 27:38 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog, Yunte Huang

Podcast #159 – Walter Isaacson

Happy New Year! This special episode features a fascinating presentation by the 2023 National Humanities Awardee, Tulane University history professor, television and podcast host, and celebrated biographer, Walter Issacson. His September 28, 2023, “Lesso

January 12, 2024 59:36 Speakers: Walter Isaacson

Podcast #158 – Justin Martin

This week, we interview author Justin Martin, who specializes in meticulously researched and engagingly delivered American history books. His most recent, A Fierce Glory: Antietam, the Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery, was published

December 29, 2023 27:43 Speakers: Justin Martin, Sonja Williams

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