On this episode, host Tom Ficklin speaks to Yale Professor Caleb Smith about his new book, "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict" (Random House, 2016), an 1858 narrative by Austin Reed, an African American inmate of New York’s Auburn State Prison.

On this episode, host Tom Ficklin talks to the Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, senior pastor of the historic Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ, about his run forState Rep. for Stratford, and the importance of mobilizing and getting out the vote on November 8.

On this episode, host Tom Ficklin sits down with film historian and Yale Professor Charlie Musser to talk about his five-dvd box set "Pioneers of African American Cinema," why Yale should think of changing the name of Calhoun College, his new book "Politics and Emergent Media: US Presidential Elections of the 1890s," and what to make of a wild campaign season.