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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast

Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast

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 Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.© 2024 Heights Libraries Social Sciences World
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  • Episode 101 – Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation with Andrew Lawler

    Episode 101 – Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation with Andrew Lawler
    Feb 3 2026
    Andrew Lawler discusses his new book, “Perfect Frenzy: a Royal Governor, his Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution.” It is the story of the colony of Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution and Lord Dunmore, infamous British villain. But what is fact and what is fiction? Lord Dunmore issued […]
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  • Episode 100 – Alt-Right, Nazis, and Trump Staffing with Amanda Moore

    Episode 100 – Alt-Right, Nazis, and Trump Staffing with Amanda Moore
    Jan 20 2026
    Amanda Moore is a freelance journalist covering the far right. We discuss her year undercover in the Alt-Right and her continued work exposing Nazis. Moore’s work has centered on far-right influencer Nick Fuentes’s misogyny and neo-Nazi rhetoric. Most recently, she’s monitoring the J6 insurrectionists and the continued appeal of those who’s convictions were commuted and […]
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  • Episode 99 – Interrupting the Supreme Court with Tonja Jacobi

    Episode 99 – Interrupting the Supreme Court with Tonja Jacobi
    Jan 6 2026
    Tonja Jacobi discusses her article “Supreme Court Interruptions and Interventions: The Changing Role of the Chief Justice.” Recent scholarship has focused on how often the Supreme Court Justices get interrupted, especially when female Justices are speaking. To fix this, the Court changed how hearings are run. This article looks at whether these interruptions—and the gender […]
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