Guests:

Linda C. McClain is Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University at Boston University School of Law.

Maya Manian is Visiting Professor at American University Washington College of Law.

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Guest: Dr. Chris Beyrer is Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights. Professor of Epidemiology, Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Senior Scientific Liaison of the COVID Vaccine Prevention Network.

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Guest: Mark A. Bradley, author of the book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. Mark Bradley currently is the director of the Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives and Records Administration. He is also a former Justice Department Lawyer and CIA officer.

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Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana.

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Guest: Carolyn Forché is a poet, editor, translator, and activist and a professor at Georgetown University.  She is the author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.

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Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial d’Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, a Prix d’Histoire du Sénat for the second, and the Grand Prix du Livre d’Idées for the third. His latest book is Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture.

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