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In this week’s episode, we interview David Hajdu and John Carey, collaborators on a biography in graphic form about three vaudeville stars. A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay and Julian Eltinge was published
29:39 Speakers: David Hajdu, Eric K. Washington, John Carey
In this week’s episode we interview Ty Seidule, author of Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, published by St. Martin’s Press in January 2021. Seidule served in the U.S. Army for thirty-six ye
October 29, 2021 29:39 Speakers: Kitty Kelley, Ty Seidule
In this week’s episode, we interview Kevin McGruder, Associate Professor of history at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is a first-time biographer and author of Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem, published by Columbia University Press
October 16, 2021 29:39 Speakers: Eric K. Washington, Kevin McGruder
In this week’s episode, we interview journalist Molly Ball, author of The New York Times bestseller Pelosi, a biography of the first woman to serve as the U.S. Congress’ Speaker of the House. Pelosi was published in May 2020 by Henry Holt. Molly Ball is
October 1, 2021 29:39 Speakers: John A. Farrell, Molly Ball
In this week’s episode we interview Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Professor of Biography and English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Working with 19 other authors, her book of edited biographies, Britain’s Black Past, was published by Liverpo
September 17, 2021 27:24 Speakers: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Sonja Williams
In this week’s episode, we interview Tamara Payne. Working with her late father, the award-winning and New York-based print journalist Les Payne, Tamara Payne co-wrote The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Published in October 2020 by Liveright,
September 3, 2021 26:49 Speakers: Sonja Williams, Tamara Payne
In this week’s episode, we interview Dinyar Patel, history professor at the S. B. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai, India, and the author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, published in May 2020 by Harvard University Press. Din
August 20, 2021 27:37 Speakers: Dinyar Patel, Sonja Williams
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She also is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award for No
28:58 Speakers: Annette Gordon-Reed