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Gordon Mantler talked about his book, Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974, in which he recounts the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. The aut…

Timothy Tyson talked about his book The Blood of Emmett Till, in which he recalls the life and death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year old African-American, who was tortured and killed in Miss…

Professor Nancy MacLean talked about her book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, in which she examines the work of the late Nobel Prize-wi…

Professor Benjamin Waterhouse talked about his book The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States, in which he provides a history of business in America from colonial times…

Professor A. Roger Ekirch talked about his book American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution, in which he recalls the extradition of Jonathan Robbins…

Henry Petroski talked about his book The Road Taken: The History and future of America’s Infrastructure, in which he provides a history of America’s infrastructure and argues that the nation…

Kathleen Duval talked about her book Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of American Revolution, in which she examines the lives of people on Florida’s Gulf Coast during the American Revolu…

Lars Schoultz talked about the history of the U.S.-Cuban relationship. He focused on describing the failures of the previous 10 presidents in normalizing relationships with Cuba. He argued t…

William Cohan talked about his book, The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities, in which he recounts the 2006 Duke…

John Feffer talked about the resurgence of anti-Islamic sentiment in the West and reviewed the actions that the U.S. has taken against Muslim countries since September 11, 2001. Mr. Feffer a…

Jonathan Bloom reports that close to half of the food produced in the United States goes to waste. Mr. Bloom explores why most food becomes refuse. According to the author each American disc…

Mr. Rymer talked about his book, American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory, published by HarperCollins. A journalist, he details the economic and social development of two black com…

Janice Radway talked about her new book, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire. The book focuses on the history of the Book of the Month Clu…