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Guest: John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times, and the associate editor of Madison, Wisconsin’s Capital Times. He’s the author of several books, including The Death and Life of American Journalism, The Genius of Impeachment and The “S” Word and, The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics SUPPORT KPFA Donate TODAY The post U.S. History Series – The Legacy of Henry Wallace and the Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peter Afrasiabi is an Intellectual Property and Entertainment lawyer and a Faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.  He is Director of the Appellate Litigation Clinic at the University of California Irvine, School of Law.  He is the author of the book Burning Bridges: America’s 20-Year Crusade To Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges. SUPPORT KPFA! Donate TODAY The post U.S. History Series – America’s 20-Year Crusade To Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: James Q. Whitman is Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His books include Harsh Justice, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt, The Verdict of Battle, and his latest, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.   SUPPORT KPFA! Donate TODAY The post U.S. History Series – The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Stephen Kinzer is former New York Times foreign correspondent, now Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and author of the book Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.   SUPPORT KPFA TODAY!!! The post Evolution of the U.S. Foreign Policy (Part III) – The CIA, Sidney Gottlieb, and the Search for Mind Control appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for The Boston Globe. He is an award-winning foreign correspondent who served as The New York Times’s bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as The Boston Globe’s Latin America correspondent.  He s the author of several books including, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allan Dulles and their Secret World War.   SUPPORT KPFA TODAY!!!   The post Evolution of the U.S. Foreign Policy (Part II) – The Dulles Brothers and their Secret World War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for The Boston Globe. He is an award-winning foreign correspondent who served as The New York Times’s bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as The Boston Globe’s Latin America correspondent.  He s the author of several books including The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire.   SUPPORT KPFA TODAY!!! The post Evolution of the U.S. Foreign Policy (Part I) – The Birth of the American Empire appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast The Political Scene. The post The Agitators: Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright & Frances Seward appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Marilyn Chase is a journalist and teacher, and the author of The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. She covers medical science and health care focusing on infectious-disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. She is the author of the book The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco.  Her latest book is Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa. The post When the Plague Came to San Francisco appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jeremy D. Popkin is the William T. Bryan Chair of History at the University of Kentucky, he is the author of a number of books including Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection, and A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution. Featured image credit: Storming of The Bastille, Jean-Pierre Houël on Wikipedia The post A History of the French Revolution appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Greg Grandin is professor of history at Yale University. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction in 2020 for his book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. He has also republished his book from 2006 Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic.  Professor Grandin served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War.   Photo credit: Wikipedia “Ten Thousand Miles From Tip to Tip” meaning the extension of U.S. domination (symbolized by a bald eagle) from Puerto Rico to the Philippines. The cartoon contrasts this with a map of the smaller United States 100 years earlier in 1798. The post A History of US Empire & Expansion appeared first on KPFA.