Friday, November 26, 2021

445. Stephen Winick, part 1

445. Part 1 of our conversation with Stephen Winick, of the Library of Contress. In 1902, on a prairie in southwest Louisiana, six members of a farming family are found murdered. Albert Edwin Batson, a white, itinerant farm worker, rapidly descends from likely suspect to likely lynching victim as people in the surrounding countryside lusted for vengeance.

Friday, November 19, 2021

444. Christy Green, part 2

444. Part 2 of our conversation with Christy Green. M. Christian Green is a scholar, teacher, researcher, writer, and editor working in the fields of law, religion, ethics, human rights, and global affairs. 

Thursday, November 11, 2021

443. Christy Green, Part 1

443. Part 1 of our interview with Christy Green. M. Christian Green is a scholar, teacher, researcher, writer, and editor working in the fields of law, religion, ethics, human rights, and global affairs. 

Thursday, November 4, 2021

442. Melissa Daggett, part 2

442. Part 2 of our interview with Melissa Daggett about New Orleans spiritualism. Please join us when historian Melissa Daggett discusses her book, Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

441. Melissa Daggett, part 1

441. Part 1 of our discussion with Melissa Daggett about New Orleans spiritualism in the 19th Century. Please join us when historian Melissa Daggett discusses her book, Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

440. Evan Faulkenbury.

440. We talk to Evan Faulkenbury about his article, “‘Monroe is Hell’: Voter Purges, Registration Drives, and the Civil Rights Movement in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana,” Evan Faulkenbury is an associate professor of history at SUNY Cortland.

Friday, October 15, 2021

439. Shreveport Writers' Club, part 2

439. Part 2 of our interview with Shreveport Writers' Club. Since 1935, the Shreveport Writers Club has been a support group for writers. SWC includes writers from all stages of life in all genres and styles of writing.