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Podcast Episode #101 – Betsy Rohaly Smoot

This week we interview Betsy Smoot, an intelligence historian interested in early twentieth-century cryptology and communications. She retired from the Center for Cryptologic History of the National Security Agency in 2017, and she has published articles

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Betsy Rohaly Smoot, Jennifer Skoog

Podcast Episode #100 – Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

This week we interview Gwendolyn Mink and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, co-authors of Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress, published by New York University Press in May 2022. This book explores the life and accomplishments of P

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Gwendolyn Mink, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Kitty Kelley

Podcast Episode #99 – Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels

This week we interview Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, Peabody Award and Polk Award-winning journalists and co-authors of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, published by Viking Press in May 2022. Toluse Ol

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Jennifer Skoog, Robert Samuels , Toluse Olorunnipa

Podcast Episode #98 – Philip Short

This week we interview Philip Short, a British journalist who has written several definitive biographies, including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. Short has had a long career as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, Beijing, and Washington

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: John A. Farrell, Philip Short

Podcast Episode #97 – Mark Lee Gardner

This week we interview award winning writer Mark Lee Gardner. His latest biography, The Earth is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation, was published by Mariner Books in June 2022.Gardner’s previous books

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: mark lee gardner, Sonja Williams

Podcast Episode #96 – Paulina L. Alberto

This week we interview Paulina L. Alberto, an Argentine-born historian of Afro-Latin America and Professor of History, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. Her biography, Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Rac

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Kitty Kelley, Paulina L. Alberto

Podcast Episode #95 – Brian Harker

This week we interview award-winning author and Brigham Young University music professor Brian Harker. His latest biography, Sportin’ Life: John W. Bubbles an American Classic, was published by Oxford University Press in January 2022. John Bubbles was on

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Brian Harker, Eric K. Washington

Podcast Episode #94 – Kathleen Stone

This week we interview Kathleen Stone, a Boston-based lawyer whose reviews, essays and have appeared in MS Magazine, Arts Fuse, Ploughshares, Pangyrus, The Timberline Review, Los Angeles Review of Books and Grist. She also co-hosts Booklab, a literary sa

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Kathleen Stone, Kitty Kelley

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