Category: History
The Pluralism of MLK
June 12, 2018
Anders Walker— Fifty years after Memphis, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy remains closely tied to integration, to Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the creation of… READ MORE
Free Speech in America
June 8, 2018
Floyd Abrams— American law could hardly be more inconsistent. When a family of religious zealots that formed what it characterized as the Westboro Baptist Church carried signs a thousand feet… READ MORE
Ep. 58 – Mark Bradford’s Pickett’s Charge Installation
June 7, 2018
We discuss the Mark Bradford exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC with the curator of that show, Evelyn Hankins. YaleUniversity · A conversation with the curator… READ MORE
Clare Hollingworth Breaks the News of WWII
June 6, 2018
Ray Moseley— Lynn Heinzerling of the AP and George Kidd of UP shared the distinction of being the first correspondents to hear the opening shots of World War II. A… READ MORE
Global Power and US Sanctions
June 5, 2018
Victor Bulmer-Thomas— Sanctions have always played a part in conflicts among states and between states and non-state actors. However, their use by the United States government has accelerated in recent… READ MORE
Cherokee People in the Eighteenth Century
June 4, 2018
Gregory D. Smithers— During the latter half of the eighteenth century, the Cherokee people experienced an unprecedented series of challenges to their established modes of life. The matrilineal and matrilocal… READ MORE
Washington’s understanding of the Declaration
June 1, 2018
Steve Pincus— George Washington’s understanding of America’s founding document as a call for an energetic government stands in stark contrast with the majority of interpretations of the Declaration. Whereas Washington… READ MORE
Ep. 57 – Harvey Milk
May 31, 2018
A look at the life of one of the most influential figures in modern history from his childhood to his assassination and beyond. YaleUniversity · Harvey Milk Subscribe: Apple Podcasts… READ MORE
The Peaceful South
May 29, 2018
Anders Walker— The recent opening of a lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama underscores the role that violence played in upholding racial segregation, or Jim Crow. From the 1870s through the… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic