Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchImmigration and the Carceral State w/ Carl Lindskoog
Season 2 Episode 102
Carl Lindskoog is a historian of immigration, race, and rebellion whose forthcoming book Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the Wor…
7 years, 9 months ago
Writing Attica's History w/ Heather Ann Thompson
Season 2 Episode 100
Heather Ann Thompson is a historian and writer whose 2016 book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy won the Pulitze…
7 years, 9 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 99: The Long Seventies w/ Bruce Schulman
Bruce Schulman's 2001 book The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics is a fascinating take on a critical era, and hel…
7 years, 10 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 98: The Ruins of History w/ Megan Kate Nelson
Megan Kate Nelson's interdisciplinary approach to environmental history puts towering events like the Civil War into wholly new contexts. Her book Ru…
7 years, 10 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 97: Wild Wild Country w/ Claudia Moreno Parsons BONUS EPISODE TEASER
Here's a quick preview of next week's bonus episode, a conversation with Claudia Moreno Parsons about the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country. If y…
7 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 96: The Longue Durée of Modernity w/ Daniel McClure
Daniel McClure is a historian and writer interested in long term historical processes (like capitalism, imperialism, and the nation-state), connectin…
7 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 94: The Greenwich Village Folk Explosion w/ Stephen Petrus
Stephen Petrus is a historian of 20th century America and author of Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival. In this conversation, he…
7 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 93: Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson's coverage of last summer's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which culminated in the murder of Heather Heyer, helpe…
7 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 92: Allen Ruff
Allen Ruff is the host of A Public Affair on WORT-FM community radio in Madison, Wisconsin, a show that features interviews with a wide range of figu…
7 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 91: Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank might be best known as the author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a 2004 book that sought to explain why so many Americans in "flyove…
8 years ago