Professor and historian Kate Masur discusses historical perspective on storming of U.S. Capitol in Global Lunchbox Podcast
February 10, 2021
This episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast features a conversation with Professor Kate Masur of the Department of History at Northwestern and author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (2021).
The point of departure for the conversation was Professor Masur’s article “Yes, Wednesday’s attempted insurrection is who we are”on the Washington Post blog “Made by History” on January 8, 2021 (co-authored with Gregory P. Downs).
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