Jamie Bronstein has been a history professor at New Mexico State University since 1996. She is the author of six books about American and British History: Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (published in 1999); Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in 19th-century Britain (2008); Transatlantic radical: John Francis Bray (2009); with Andrew Harris, Empire, State and Society: Modern Britain, 1830-present (2013), and The Happiness of the British Working Class (2023). Today’s interview focuses on her book, published in 2016, Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of American Inequality.

Recorded 12/17/20.