interviews 
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SOURCE: Merrittocracy
10/26/2020
Merrittocracy with Keri Leigh Merritt: Kevin Kruse on the 2020 Election
Kevin Kruse joins host Keri Leigh Merritt to discuss his new book on the Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Era and the relevance of that history to the 2020 election.
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10/25/2020
An Interview with Ian W. Toll, author of "Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945"
by James Thornton Harris
"Military histories have tended to take a “stay in your lane” approach, adhering to accounts of battles and operations. I prefer to weave the strands of politics and foreign policy into the fabric of the narrative."
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SOURCE: Merrittocracy with Keri Leigh Merritt
10/19/2020
Dr. Carol Anderson: The 2020 Election and Beyond (video)
Historian Carol Anderson joins Merrittocracy host Keri Leigh Merritt to discus Trump, racism, and the state of democracy leading up to the 2020 election.
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SOURCE: Bill Moyers
9/1/2020
Lessons Unlearned: HNN Features Editor Robin Lindley Interviewed
HNN's Features Editor Robin Lindley was interviewed by Nibir K. Ghosh about the need for historical understanding today.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse
5/25/2020
Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”
"The biggest argument, though, and the one into which I poured my best intellectual energy, was the argument at the center of the book: that politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy."
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4/12/2020
HNN's Robin Lindley Interviews Medical Historian Frank Snowden
by Robin Lindley
Professor Frank Snowden discusses the situation in Italy, the progress of COVID-19 and governments' responses to it, and his career researching the history of epidemics.
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4/12/2020
"My Entire Career has Led Me to this Project": HNN Interviews Kevin Kruse
by Chelsea Connolly and Hana Hancock
"This pandemic is global in scale and personal in impact, and as a result, it’s touching and transforming virtually every topic that historians have studied. We have a duty to share our insights with the larger world. They’re interested in what we have to say. (And, let’s remember, most of them are stuck at home looking for something to read!)"
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/23/20
Historian Edward Achorn Interviewed by the NY Times About His Book Every Drop of Blood
24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Mag
2/4/20
Karin Wulf Interviews Alexis Coe About Her Cheeky New George Washington Biography
by Karin Wulf
Alexis Coe’s cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/3/19
‘Well Worth Saving’
by Scott Jaschik
Laurel Leff discusses her book on the failure of American universities to rescue scholars seeking to flee Nazi Germany.
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11/24/19
Investigating Technology and the Remaking of America
by Robin Lindley
A conversation with Acclaimed History Professor Margaret O’Mara on Her Career and Her Groundbreaking New Book on Silicon Valley
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SOURCE: World Wide Socialist Web
11/18/19
An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
"Collectively their work has prompted some very strong criticism from scholars in the field. My concern is that by avoiding some of the basic analytical questions, most of the scholars have backed into a neo-liberal economic interpretation of slavery."
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11/17/19
The Used Bookstore Find that Inspired A History of Dress and Fashion
by Erik Moshe
Linda Przybyszewski on her work as a historian--including her history of women's fashion and dressmaking.
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11/17/19
The History of Personal Hygiene: An Interview with Peter Ward
by Aleisha Smith
"The history of the unremarkable and the ordinary have an importance of their own, one that can easily surpass the history of greatness in any of its many forms."
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11/10/19
The Overlooked Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
by Robin Lindley
A Conversation with Acclaimed History Professor Kate Brown on Her Groundbreaking Book Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
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SOURCE: New Books Network
9/9/19
Habeas Corpus in Wartime: Derek Litvak Interviews Amanda L. Tyler
by Derek Litvak
Habeas Corpus in Wartime is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America.
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9/8/19
Sir Ian Kershaw on His Latest Book, Brexit, and the Future of Europe
by David O’Connor
"The EU has come a long way and, as Brexit shows, the networks built up over previous decades are extremely complex."
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/4/19
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Interviews LaShawn Harris and Max Felker-Kantor
by AAIHS Editors
Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment
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7/21/19
The Power of Microhistory: An Interview with Bancroft Prize Winner Douglas Winiarski
by Elisabeth Pearson
"I think my book will resonate with readers attuned to the politics of religious difference and the troubling connections between religion and violence in our own times."
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5/12/19
Carolyn Forché: Bearing Witness to the Wounds of History
by Robin Lindley
A Conversation with Renowned Poet and Human Rights Activist Carolyn Forché on Her New Memoir, Mass Trauma, History, and the Plight of Refugees Today.
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