Zinn spoke to Writers Voice host Francesca Rheannon in 2005 about his companion volume to A PEOPLE’S HISTORY, VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Articles Tagged ‘ history ’
What Do We Learn About History From Novels?
November 3rd, 2009
We hear excerpts from a dramatic reading of Ernest J. Gaines’ novel, A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Enchanted Circle Theater actors. It’s about a young black man in Jim Crow Louisiana who is condemned to death. And we interview Thad Carhart about his new historical novel, ACROSS THE ENDLESS RIVER. It’s about Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea who was a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition and who lived both in the United States and Europe.
Looking at New York City, Before and After 9/11
September 7th, 2009
We talk with architectural historian Max Page about THE CITY’S END: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction. And Patrick Radden Keefe tells us the story of China’s outmigration to New York in the 1980’s and the “snakeheads” who facilitated and exploited it. His book is SNAKEHEAD: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream.
Welsh Poet Gwyneth Lewis and Marshall Jon Fisher’s A TERRIBLE SPLENDOR
June 22nd, 2009
Guest host Christian McEwen talks with Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis and Francesca Rheannon talks with Marshall Jon Fisher about one of the greatest tennis matches ever played: the 1937 Davis Cup final at Wimbledon. His book is A Terrible Splendor.
David S. Reynolds, WAKING GIANT and Wally Swist, MOUNT TOBY POEMS
February 1st, 2009
We talk with cultural historian David S. Reynolds about his new book, WAKING GIANT: America in the Age of Jackson. And poet Wally Swist reads from his forthcoming collection, MOUNT TOBY POEMS.
Swerling’s CITY OF GOD and Michelson’s AS GOOD AS ANYBODY
January 17th, 2009
We talk to novelist Beverly Swerling about the latest in her historical series about Old New York, CITY OF GOD. Also, children’s book author Richard Michelson, tells us about his latest, AS GOOD AS ANYBODY: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom.
Paul Fisher’s HOUSE OF WITS and Shakespeare Fans in the Inner City
December 11th, 2008
Paul Fisher tells us about the James Family: the writer Henry James, the philosopher and psychologist William James, and the lesser known but influential sister, feminist Alice James. His book is HOUSE OF WITS: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family.
H.G. Adler’s THE JOURNEY, Eating Tips for the Holidays, and a Thanksgiving story
December 2nd, 2008
Peter Filkins talks about THE JOURNEY, a lost masterpiece of Holocaust literature by acclaimed author and survivor H. G. Adler which Filkins translated. Food psychologist Brian Wansink gives us tips on how to keep the pounds off during the Holiday season. And finally, Native American storyteller Marge Bruchac tells us what really happened during the first Thanksgiving.
Joan Wickersham, THE SUICIDE INDEX and Jennet Conant, THE IRREGULARS
November 17th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with writer Joan Wickersham about her powerful new memoir, . Also, we talk with Jennet Conant about .
Alan Kronzek, SORCERER’S COMPANION and Studs Terkel Remembered
November 4th, 2008
Francesca interviews Allan Kronzek about most popular lexicon of the lore that underlies the Harry Potter series, The Sorcerer’s Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter. Also, we remember Studs Terkel, who died October 31, 2008 at the age of 96.
Ron Suskind, THE WAY OF THE WORLD and ELIZABETH WINTHROP, COUNTING ON GRACE
October 4th, 2008
Francesca talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind about . Also, Elizabeth Winthrop on , the story of an 11-year old girl working in the textile mills of Vermont at the turn of the twentieth century.
New Fiction from Paul Auster and Jennifer Haigh; Michael Klare on Russia-Georgia War
August 5th, 2008
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with acclaimed novelist Paul Auster about his new work of fiction, MAN IN THE DARK.
Also, Jennifer Haigh tells us about her new novel, THE CONDITION.
And we’ll also air an excerpt from an interview we did last year with Michael Klare about his book, RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET, THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF [...]
Climate Change, Past, Present and Future
August 1st, 2008
The current climate crisis isn’t the first time human beings have faced global climate change. Extreme weather, ice sheets melting into the Arctic ocean, and mega-droughts lasting a century or more: it all happened before, between the tenth and the fifteenth centuries. The global warming of the Middle Ages changed civilization, bringing both great disorder [...]
Philip Fradkin and Rutherford Platt
April 8th, 2008
We talk with biographer Philip Fradkin about the life of Wallace Stegner, writer and environmentalist extraordinaire. His book is WALLACE STEGNER AND THE AMERICAN WEST.
You can read a New York Times review of Fradkin’s book (which says a lot more about Stegner than about the biography) here. And for the first chapter, go here.
Also, urban [...]
Eric Weitz’s WEIMAR GERMANY
March 11th, 2008
We talk with historian Eric Weitz about WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy. On the one side, there was an explosion of intellectual and artistic creativity, on the other: hyperinflation, economic depression, and bullies of the left and right. We explore both sides of Weimar Germany and what lessons it may hold for us today. Also, we listen to robins and other birds with renowned bird biologist Donald Kroodsma, author of THE SINGING LIFE OF BIRDS.
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