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Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Episode 80: AM/FM - 1877-1977
Justin Rogers-Cooper and I have often talked about combining our scholarly interests into an academic mega-project, exploring the connections between…
8 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 79: Douglas Williams
Douglas Williams is a fierce political writer and grassroots organizer whose work can be found at TheSouthLawn.org. In this conversation, he tells me…
8 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 78: RE: Louis CK with Peter Sabatino
Peter Sabatino, the Nostalgia Trap's producer and sound wizard, joins me to unpack the recent revelations about Louis CK's abusive behavior. Our conv…
8 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 77: Nelson Lichtenstein
Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also serves as the director of the Center for …
8 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 76: Christian Appy
Christian Appy's work on the history of the Vietnam War has had an enormous influence on the direction of my own research and writing on the war. In …
8 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 75: David Fouser
David Fouser is a professor of history who recently completed a Ph.D at the University of California, Irvine. In this conversation he tells me all ab…
8 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 74: Book Club, RE: Stephen King
Fifty years after publishing his first short story, Stephen King remains a powerful force in American popular culture. Claudia Moreno Parsons joins m…
8 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 73: AM/FM - Dreamer? I Barely Know Her!
In this episode, Justin Rogers-Cooper and I take on the immigration debate from our typically broader historical perspective. How did we get from "te…
8 years, 6 months ago
Mikhail Gershovich
Episode 72
Mikhail Gershovich was my boss at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute in New York, where we were both surprised to discover that we had e…
8 years, 6 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 71: Vincent DiGirolamo
On my way out of Baruch College after twelve years of teaching in the history department, I stopped by Professor Vincent DiGirolamo's office to talk …
8 years, 8 months ago