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Guest: Peter Cozzens is a historian and the author and/or editor of sixteen books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize. His latest book is Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America’s Heartland. The post Tenskwatawa & Tecumseh: The Brothers Who Almost Stopped American Expansion appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of  Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a national political reporter focusing on democracy issues.   Image: Wikipedia (GPA Photo Archive, https://flic.kr/p/BrRNcA; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) The post Voting Rights and The Political Propaganda War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Activist and politician Colia Lafayette Clark is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power movement, and Pan-African movement. She was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and played a key role establishing equal voting rights in Selma, Alabama.   Photo by History in HD on Unsplash The post On MLK Day: Colia Lafayette Clark, Civil Rights activist of the 1960s appeared first on KPFA.

Guest Host Max Pringle talks to Mitchell Schwarzer about His new book is Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption.  Professor Schwarzer teaches Architectural and Urban History at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. The post Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Geoff Manaugh is a regular contributor for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, and other publications.  He is the coauthor, with Nicola Twilley, of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine.  Image: Wikipedia The post The Strange and Interesting History of Quarantine appeared first on KPFA.

  Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of more than twenty books including her latest, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.  She is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. The post ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Adam Jentleson is the Executive Director of Battle Born Collective and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid.  He is a columnist for GQ and the author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. The post The History of the Filibuster appeared first on KPFA.

Today, host Max Pringle is filling in for Mitch Jeserich. Part I – The January 6 Attack and the Fracture of Democracy Guest: Talia Lavin author of Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Part II – A History of The Silk Road Guest: Valerie Hansen is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.  She is the author of the book The Silk Road: A New History. The post The One-Year Anniversary of the January 6 Riot & A History of The Silk Road appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Timothy Brennan is the author of several books, including At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now; Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies; and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation, and his latest, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said.  Professor Brennan teaches in the humanities at the University of Minnesota. The post Edward Said: A Life appeared first on KPFA.

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.