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Podcast Episode #119 – Wanda Hendricks

This week we interview Wanda A. Hendricks, Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of South Carolina and author of The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women’s Global Activism During Jim Crow and Apartheid, published by the University of Illinois

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Sonja Williams, Wanda A. Hendricks

Podcast Episode #112 – Anastasia Curwood

This week we interview Anastasia Curwood, Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and author of Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics, scheduled for publication by the University of North Carolina Press in January 2023. C

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Anastasia Curwood, Sonja Williams

Podcast Episode #110 – Mark Clague

This week we interview Mark Clague, author of O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of The Star-Spangled Banner, published by W.W. Norton & Company in June 2022. Clague serves as Professor of Musicology, Arts Leadership, and American Culture at th

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Mark Clague, Sonja Williams

Podcast Episode #104 – Marko Perko

This week we interview Marko Perko, a veteran writer and the co-author (with psychiatrist Stephen M. Stahl) of Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life. This biography of Nikola Tesla—the Serbian American engineer who helped to create our modern world wit

February 9, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Marko Perko, Sonja Williams

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 #89 – Alejandro Madrid

This week we interview Alejandro Madrid, an award-winning Cornell University musicologist who specializes in music and expressive culture from Latin America and Latinxs in the United States. He has authored more than a half dozen books, including his lat

March 25, 2022 30:23 Speakers: Alejandro Madrid, Sonja Williams

Podcast Episode #86 – Tyrone McKinley Freeman

This week we interview Tyrone McKinley Freeman, an award-winning associate professor of Philanthropic Studies and director of undergraduate programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. His latest book, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel

30:23 Speakers: Sonja Williams, Tyrone McKinley Freeman

Podcast Episode #73 – Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

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

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