Q&A with Helen Andrews
Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative Magazine, talked about her book, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster, in which she argued that…
1,056 viewsHelen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative Magazine, talked about her book, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster, in which she argued that…
1,056 viewsAuthor and 2020 Kirkus Book Prize finalist Eric Jay Dolin talked about the destruction caused by hurricanes throughout U.S. history and the science and technology being applied to deal with…
383 viewsUniversity of Chicago Professor Kathleen Belew and the Wall Street Journal's Jillian Kay Melchior talked about the Proud Boys and antifa, right and left-wing groups, respectively, that have…
1,450 viewsKathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, talked about being part of NASA’s first class of female astronauts and her participation in the launch and maintenance of the…
1,179 viewsFilmmaker James Taing talked about Ghost Mountain, his documentary the 1979 massacre of Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot’s Killing Fields by Thai soldiers along the Thailand-Cambodia border. The…
1,088 viewsNic Novicki, an actor and founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, talked about the 2020 entries and the winning films. The winning films came from three…
492 viewsUniversity of Texas at Austin Sociology Professor Sarah Brayne, author of Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, talked about the use of big data and new…
709 viewsCraig Fehrman talked about his book, Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, in which he analyzed American presidents through the lens of the works…
1,238 viewsPeggy Wallace Kennedy, the author of The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation, talked about her segregationist father’s controversial career as the former four-term Alabama…
2,032 viewsSteve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussed his book, Imperfect Union, which chronicles John and Jessie Fremont and their exploration of the American West in the 19th century.…
2,523 viewsHistorians Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway talked about two of the most contentious presidential transitions in U.S. history - in 1861, between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln, and in…
870 viewsJake Wood talked about serving with the U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and with Team Rubicon, the disaster response organization that he co-founded with a fellow Marine in 2010.…
154 viewsDavid Savage, longtime Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter, talked about the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case that decided the presidential election that year. He discussed why the…
775 viewsU.S. Representatives-elect Kat Cammack (R-FL) and Sara Jacobs (D-CA), the youngest women in the freshmen class of the incoming 117th Congress, talked about their backgrounds and what they…
282 viewsHistorian Emeritus Don Ritchie talked about the remaining constitutional steps needed for the 2020 presidential election to be concluded. This program is available as a C-SPAN Podcast.
43 viewsJournalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, The Woman’s Hour, about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that…
670 viewsAuthor and historian Harold Holzer Author and historian Harold Holzer talked about his book, The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media: From the Founding Fathers to Fake…
526 viewsAuthor and historian Harold Holzer talked about his book, The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News, in which he examined the…
906 viewsProfessor Kelly Dittmar discussed the influx of women candidates who won Republican House seats and the impact women had on all levels of the 2020 election cycle. This program is available…
25 viewsWilfred Codrington discussed his reasoning behind advocating for abolishing the electoral college. Plus, he discussed the recent election and how that further supports his opinion. This…
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