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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

    Homosexuals & Communists in the First Half of the 20th Century

    Homosexuals & Communists in the First Half of the 20th Century

    Guest: Aaron S. Lecklider is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.
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    The Israeli Lobby & the Squad

    The Israeli Lobby & the Squad

    Guest: Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief and the host of the podcast Deconstructed. He authors the newsletter Bad News.  He is the author of the books “This Is Your Country on Drugs” and “We’ve Got People;”  and his latest The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.
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    An Age of Coexistence in Palestine

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

    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.
     
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    Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life

    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).
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    On Juneteenth: A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed

    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
     
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