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Annette Gordon-Reed
Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University
Harvard University
Episode: Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Ashley Rose Young
Author and food historian
Oxford University Press; Library of Congress (historian position)
Episode: Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Claudia Smith Brinson
Journalist and author of Stories of Struggle
Author, Stories of Struggle; USC Press (publisher)
Episode: Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
James O'Neil Spady
Author of Take Freedom, Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair
Soka University of America
Episode: James O'Neil Spady, "Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair" (UNC Press, 2026)
Justin Randolph
Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Episode: Justin Randolph, "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside (UNC Press, 2026)
Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Author of You Can't Catch Us, Lady Bird Johnson's Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and The Women Who Rode With Her
Sourcebooks (publisher)
Episode: Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
Jason R. Young
Professor of History, University of Michigan; author of The Mask of Memory
University of Michigan
Episode: Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
Constance Bailey
Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Folklore at Georgia State University
Georgia State University
Episode: Constance Bailey et al. "Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South" (LSU Press, 2026)
Kasey Jernigan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
Episode: Kasey Jernigan, "Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

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Caleb Zakarin
Host with focus on interviewing scholars and authors in the New Books Network ecosystem; involved in history-focused programming.
Dr. Miranda Melcher
Host and scholar-ally engaging with guests on historical topics, often guiding conversations around primary sources and scholarly context.
Sullivan Summer
Host affiliated with New Books Network and related series; regularly hosts episodes with authors.
Amisah Bakuri
Host of the New Books Network interview series; involved in scholarly conversations.

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Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Could you summarize how you approached organizing Jefferson on Race into three sections and what you hoped readers would take away?
The author aimed to present a comprehensive view by separating self-image, theories, and actions, allowing readers to see how Jefferson's stated beliefs interacted with his real-world decisions, and to understand the complexity of his legacy.
Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?
Ashley describes her background as a food historian, her long journey to publish Nourishing Networks, and how her undergraduate internship sparked a lifelong focus on New Orleans' food culture, especially the role of Creole cuisine and the city's market systems.
James O'Neil Spady, "Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair" (UNC Press, 2026)
Q: Why did you decide to write a book that investigates this classic story?
Because the traditional narrative faced critique in 2001 that court records might be manufactured, prompting me to reexamine archives and develop new methods to test their reliability and to contextualize the uprising beyond a single leader.
James O'Neil Spady, "Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair" (UNC Press, 2026)
Q: Could you start us off please by giving us a brief introduction to yourself, and then also what the existing story is of the Denmark Vesey Affair?
I'm James O'Neil Spady, and this book retells the Denmark Vesey episode as a 1822 uprising rather than a simple conspiracy, foregrounding the community, networks, and geography of Charleston and challenging the idea that Vesey alone led the event.
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
Q: Could you give us a short mini autobiography outlining your professional background?
Claudia explains her long career as a journalist in South Carolina, her shift toward education reporting, and how extensive fieldwork and conversations with Black elders shaped her understanding that the official racial narrative in SC was misleading; this set the stage for her book.

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Across recent episodes, deep-dive conversations with historians, scholars, and authors illuminate how race, memory, and public culture intersect with American South history. Guests cover topics from Jefferson's treatment of race and the founding era to Civil Rights struggles in the Jim Crow South, Southern foodways and market systems, and labor history. The discussions frequently connect archival research to contemporary debates on DEI, public memory, and policy implications, often reframing established narratives by foregrounding underrepresented communities, regional networks, and everyday life. The show stands out for its rigorous, source-driven interviews with academics and authors who are actively publishing new scholarship in real tim... more

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