Guest: Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny. The post Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 2) appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny. The post Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 1) appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Guest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, and political activist.  He hosts The Ralph Nader Radio Hour on the Pacifica Radio Network; and is the author of many books including his latest, “Let’s Start the Revolution: Tools for Displacing the Corporate State and Building a Country that Works for the People.”  Ralph Nader is the founder of the monthly newspaper Capitol Hill Citizen.   Photo credit: Wikimedia The post Ralph Nader on How People Can Resist the Upcoming Trump Administration appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and the author of several books, including  The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, Death and the Idea of Mexico, and his latest, Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico.   The post Sovereignty and Extortion in Mexico appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Louis S. Warren is the W Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at U.C. Davis. He is the author of the book author of Buffalo Bill’s America, American Environmental History, and most recently,  God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. Feature image: The Ghost Dance of 1889–1891, depicting the Oglala at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, by Frederic Remington in 1890 on Wikimedia Commons. The post A History of the Ghost Dance Religious Movement appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of several books including Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism, and her latest, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray was the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and her legal work on the 14th Amendment provided the groundwork for Brown v. Board and inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work with women’s rights and the 14th Amendment.  Murray also struggled with issues of identity; by today’s standards, she would be considered transgender. The post Jane Crow: The Radical Legacy of Pauli Murray appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and Co-President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America.  The post Who is Inside and Who is Outside of the Circle of Citizenship in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Laws That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. The post 19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and author of the best-selling book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. He has spent over 25 years exploring Mongolia and its history, and his writing on the Mongol Empire has transformed our understanding of its long legacy. Jack Weatherford is the retired DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota, and he is the only foreigner ever inducted into the Order of Chinggis Khaan, Mongolia’s highest national honor. His other books include The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Genghis Khan and the Quest for God, Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World, The History of Money, and his latest, Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China. The post Jack Weatherford on Kublai Khan and the Making of China appeared first on KPFA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASFH_O4sDo4 Guest: Gary Dorrien is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University.  He is the author of more than twenty books and three hundred articles that range across social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and political theory, religious history, cultural criticism, and intellectual history. He is the recipient of many awards including the Grawemeyer Award in 2017 for his book The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel.  His latest book is Over from Union Road My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life. The post The Religious Experience & Social Movements appeared first on KPFA.