This Day In Esoteric Political History
Listen at thisdaypod.comWe’re living in unprecedented times. Maybe. In this show, Jody Avirgan, Nicole Hemmer and Kellie Carter Jackson (and guests) take one moment, big or small, from that day in U.S. political history and explore how it might inform our present –– all in about fifteen minutes. New episodes release Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Find us at ThisDayPod.com. We’re also posting about moments from the past @thisdaypod on Twitter and Instagram. If you have a suggestion for a topic, get in touch. This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of the Radiotopia podcast network from PRX.
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Jody Avirgan is a podcast host, producer, and editor. Most recently, he ran and hosted 30 for 30 Podcasts, part of ESPN Films. He also developed FiveThirtyEight Podcasts, and was the host of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, where he covered the 2016 campaign and the rise of Trump; and was host of What's The Point, a show about how data affects our lives.
Nicole Hemmer is the director of the Rogers Center for the American Presidency and an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University. A political historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the presidency, Hemmer is the author of Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s and Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. She is co-founder of Made by History, the historical analysis section of the Washington Post, and co-hosts “Past Present,” a weekly podcast where three historians discuss the latest in American politics and culture. She also is the producer and host of “A12: The Story of Charlottesville,” a six-part podcast series on the white-power terrorism in Charlottesville in 2017.
Kellie Carter Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Her new book, Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (University of Pennsylvania Press), examines the conditions that led some black abolitionists to believe slavery might only be abolished by violent force. Carter Jackson is co-editor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, & Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press). With a forward written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reconsidering Roots is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted entirely to understanding the remarkable tenacity of the film’s visual, cultural, and political influence on American history. Carter Jackson was also featured in the History Channel's documentary, “Roots: A History Revealed” which was nominated for a NAACP Image Award in 2016.