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Jun 25, 2024 • 60min

An Age of Coexistence in Palestine

Guest: Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of the Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World. The post An Age of Coexistence in Palestine appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 24, 2024 • 60min

A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left

Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend.  He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens of the Whole World:  The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, is due to be out this fall.   Photo: Bundposter1918, Wikimedia commons The post A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 20, 2024 • 60min

Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life

Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad  interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and  Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of  Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society.  She is the author of the book Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. On Twitter (@keishablain), and on Instagram (@keishanblain). The post Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 19, 2024 • 60min

On Juneteenth: A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed

Guest: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello and her latest, On Juneteenth.     Feature Photo by Oladimeji Odunsi on Unsplash   The post On Juneteenth: A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 18, 2024 • 60min

John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy

Guest: Robert Elder, professor of history at Baylor University. Author of the book Calhoun: American Heretic. The post John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 17, 2024 • 60min

Bill Clinton & the Transformation of American Capitalism

Guest: Nelson Lichtenstein is Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, and his latest,  A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism coauthored with Judith Stein (1940–2017). The post Bill Clinton & the Transformation of American Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 13, 2024 • 60min

David Duke and The Right Wing Populism of the 1990’s

Guest: John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack.  He is the author of When the Clock Broke:  Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.   The post David Duke and The Right Wing Populism of the 1990’s appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 12, 2024 • 60min

Seattle, 1999: A History of the WTO Protests

Guest: DW Gibson is the author of several books including The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy, and his latest, One Week To Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests He serves as director of Art Omi: Writers in Ghent, New York, and he co-founded Sangam House, a writers’ residency in India, along with Arshia Sattar. Photo credit: Steve Kaiser, Seattle, US – WTO protests 1999 on Wikipedia  The post Seattle, 1999: A History of the WTO Protests appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 11, 2024 • 60min

How The Republican Party Went From Anti-Slavery to Pro-Imperialism

Guest: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and her latest, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic:  Reconstruction, 1860-1920.   The post How The Republican Party Went From Anti-Slavery to Pro-Imperialism appeared first on KPFA.
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Jun 10, 2024 • 60min

Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another. Then, Biden Seals the Border

Part I. Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another Guest: Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist.  He served as chief economist of the World Bank.  Currently, he teaches at Columbia University and a Senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.  He is the author of several books including his latest, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. Part II. Biden’s Move to Seal the Border  Guest: Todd Miller is an independent journalist and author of several books including Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and his latest Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders.   Photo credit: Wikimedia commons The post Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another. Then, Biden Seals the Border appeared first on KPFA.

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