http://www.historyforthefuture.org/wordpress/ en-us © 2010 Kevin Brown History, Politics, and Society Kevin Brown History for the Future is the weekly radio program (on WRCT-Pittsburgh) and podcast that explores the historical underpinnings of current social issues. History for the Future is the weekly radio program (on WRCT-Pittsburgh) and podcast that explores the historical underpinnings of current social issues. Kevin Brown kevin@historyforthefuture.org no Kevin Brown Historian Maurice Isserman discusses the legacy of Michael Harrington's classic work, "The Other America: Poverty in the United States." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/isserman_hftf_ep75.mp3 Tue, 01 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT 30:34 Isserman, Harrington, The Other America, poverty, War on Poverty, inequality no Kevin Brown Documentary filmmaker Vivian Price discusses her 2010 film, "Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/price_hftf_ep74.mp3 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT 31:48 Price, Bracero Program, immigration, guest worker, Mexico no Kevin Brown HFTF and I Wonder Radio team up for the second half of a series on the public transit crisis in Allegheny County. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/publictransit_hftf_pt2.mp3 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT 29:26 public transit, Pittsburgh, paratransit, Metro St. Louis, I Wonder, crisis no Kevin Brown Journalist Lucy Morgan Edwards discusses her new book, "The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/edwards_hftf_ep73.mp3 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT 31:40 Edwards, Afghanistan, war, Abdul Haq no Kevin Brown HFTF and I Wonder Radio team up for a show exploring dimensions of the public transit crisis in Pittsburgh. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/publictransit_hftf_pt1.mp3 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT 29:18 public transit, Pittsburgh, history, sustainable development, I Wonder, crisis no Kevin Brown CMU historian Nico Slate discusses his brand new book, "Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/slate_hftf_ep72.mp3 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT 32:28 Slate, civil rights, independence, Gandhi, freedom struggle no Kevin Brown Communications scholar Robert W. McChesney returns to HFTF to discuss media and the 2012 election, the Occupy Movement, and SOPA-PIPA. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/mcchesney_hftf_ep71.mp3 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT 32:33 media, politics, McChesney, super-PACs, Occupy Movement no Kevin Brown Historian Neil Maher discusses the Civilian Conservation Corps and his book, "Nature's New Deal." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/maher_hftf_ep70.mp3 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:00:00 GMT 29:44 New Deal, CCC, Leopold, environmentalism, Maher no Kevin Brown Anthony DiMaggio discusses his new book, "The Rise of the Tea Party: Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/dimaggio_hftf_ep69.mp3 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:00 GMT 30:27 Tea Party, media, DiMaggio, politics no Kevin Brown Sports journalist and author Dave Zirin discusses sports, politics, and history. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/zirin_hftf_ep68.mp3 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:20 sports, politics, John Carlos, Zirin no Kevin Brown Historian James Fleming discusses his new book, "Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/fleming_hftf_ep67.mp3 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:00 Fleming, weather control, science, climate change, geoengineering no Kevin Brown Historian Lloyd Gardner discusses his new book, "The Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/gardner_hftf_ep66.mp3 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:00 Gardner, Middle East, US foreign policy, Egypt, Tahrir Square no Kevin Brown Historian David Kinkela discusses his brand new book, "DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Chanced the World." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/kinkela_hftf_ep65.mp3 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT 33:44 Kinkela, pesticides, DDT, politics, Rachel Carson, environment no Kevin Brown Historian Scott Nelson discusses short and long term effects of the American Railway Union's 1894 movement. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/nelson_hftf_ep64.mp3 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:20 Nelson, Occupy movement, politics, protest, Debs, Occupy Chicago no Kevin Brown Historian Sophia Rosenfeld discusses her new book, "Common Sense: A Political History." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/rosenfeld_hftf_ep63.mp3 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT 30:27 Rosenfeld, common sense, politics, Tea Party, Paine, democracy no Kevin Brown Fred Madgoff discusses his new book (with John Bellamy Foster), "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism: A Citizen’s Guide to Capitalism and the Environment." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/magdoff_hftf_ep62.mp3 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:40 Magdoff, Foster, capitalism, environmentalism, economics, socialism no Kevin Brown Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America - and Spawned a Global Crisis." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/hudson_hftf_ep61.mp3 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:45 Hudson, subprime mortgage industry, economic crisis, economics, corruption, housing no Kevin Brown Zack Furness discusses his new book, "One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/furness_hftf_ep60.mp3 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT 33:59 Furness, bicycles, automobiles, politics, cities, environment no Kevin Brown Historian Bethany Moreton discusses her award winning book, "To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/moreton_hftf_ep59.mp3 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT 34:01 Moreton, Wal-Mart, Christianity, capitalism, SIFE, Freedom University no Kevin Brown Historian Lawrence Culver discusses his book, "The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/culver_hftf_ep58.mp3 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:35 Culver, leisure, environment, California, suburbia, tourism no Kevin Brown John Marsh discusses his new book, "Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/marsh_hftf_ep57.mp3 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:50 Marsh, education, inequality, economics, poverty no Kevin Brown Epidemiologist and veteran public health researcher Ernest Drucker discusses his brand new book, "A Plague of Prisons: THe Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/drucker_hftf_ep56.mp3 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT 30:31 Drucker, prison, War on Drugs, public health, policy no Kevin Brown Veteran journalist Edward Girardet discusses his new book, "Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/girardet_hftf_ep55.mp3 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:30 Girardet, Afghanistan, Soviet War, journalism no Kevin Brown Historian Judith Stein discusses her book, "Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/stein_hftf_ep54.mp3 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:21 Stein, 1970s, economics, Keynesianism, Carter, Reagan no Kevin Brown Historian Ernest Freeberg discusses his recent book, "Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/freeberg_hftf_ep53.mp3 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:10 Freeberg, socialism, Debs, free speech, World War I, First Ammendment no Kevin Brown Sociologist James Loewen, author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong," discusses the state of American history education. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/loewen_hftf_ep52.mp3 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:01 Loewen, textbooks, NAEP, Confederacy, history education no Kevin Brown Historian Lara Putnam discusses her forthcoming book, "Rights of Passage: Migrants, States, and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age Greater Caribbean." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/putnam_hftf_ep51.mp3 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT 33:34 Putnam, race, migration, Caribbean, jazz no Kevin Brown Sociologist Peter Moskos discusses his recent books, "Cop in the Hood" and "In Defense of Flogging." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/moskos_hftf_ep50.mp3 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:15 Moskos, policing, criminal justice, prison, flogging no Kevin Brown Media scholar Victor Pickard discusses his new co-edited collection (with Bob McChesney), "Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/pickard_hftf_ep49.mp3 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT 30:15 Pickard, McChesney, journalism, media, democracy, crisis no Kevin Brown Economist Richard Wolff discusses the continuing economic crisis in the United States as well as culture and "social distraction." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/wolff_hftf_ep48.mp3 Tue, 31 May 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:00 ___________________ no Kevin Brown Anthropologist Roger Rouse discusses why we should critically examine the values bound up in Disney's popular Pirates of the Caribbean series. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/rouse_hftf_ep47.mp3 Tue, 03 May 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:30 Rouse, Pirates of the Caribbean, capitalism, culture, new spirit of capitalism no Kevin Brown Anthropologist Paul Eiss discusses his book, "In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History in Yucatán." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/eiss_hftf_ep46.mp3 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:00:00 GMT 34:01 Eiss, el pueblo, Yucatán, drug war no Kevin Brown Gene Dattel discusses his book, "Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/dattel_hftf_ep45.mp3 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:00 Dattel, race, slavery, cotton, Civil War, markets no Kevin Brown Author and labor activist Les Leopold discusses the state of the economy, the labor movement, and the progressive response to the continuing economic crisis. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/leopold_hftf_ep44.mp3 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:00:00 GMT 29:30 Leopold, labor movement, financial crisis, the Left no Kevin Brown Historian Susan Reverby discusses her discovery that the U.S. Health Service infected Guatemalan citizens with Syphilis as part of a study during the late 1940s. She also talks about the history of the Tuskegee Study in the U.S. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/reverby_hftf_ep43.mp3 Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:00:00 GMT 29:00 Reverby, public health, syphilis, Guatemala, Tuskegee no Kevin Brown Peter Richardson discusses his book, "A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/richardson_hftf_ep42.mp3 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:59 Richardson, journalism, media, Ramparts, 1960s no Kevin Brown Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter discusses her new book, "The History of White People." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/painter_hftf_ep41.mp3 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT 29:00 Painter, race, whiteness, inequality no Kevin Brown Anthropologist Sonali Pahwa discusses the origins and content of the recent Egyptian revolution. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/pahwa_hftf_ep40.mp3 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:00 Pahwa, Egypt, revolution, protest, politics, media no Kevin Brown Labor historian Joseph McCartin discusses the origins of the public sector worker movement in the U.S., as well as the significance of the current struggle in Wisconsin. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/mccartin_hftf_ep39.mp3 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT 29:05 McCartin, public sector unions, labor, civil rights no Kevin Brown Historian Keith Wailoo discusses his brand new book, "How Cancer Crossed the Color Line." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/wailoo_hftf_ep38.mp3 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT 30:30 Wailoo, race, cancer, public health no Kevin Brown Anthropologist Howard Campbell discusses his book, "Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juarez." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/campbell_hftf_ep37.mp3 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:15 Campbell, Drug War Zone, El Paso, Juarez, Drug trafficking, narcotraficantes no Kevin Brown Writer and activist Shaun Harkin discusses the origins of, and responses to, the Irish and European economic crisis. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/harkin_hftf_ep36.mp3 Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT 31:10 Harkin, Ireland, economic crisis, Euro, neoliberalism no Kevin Brown Historian Robert Vanderlan discusses his new book, "Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/vanderlan_hftf_ep35.mp3 Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT 29:00 Vanderlan, Luce, intellectuals, Cold War, social critics, Fortune no Kevin Brown Pulitzer Prize winning historian Steven Hahn discusses what our familiar frameworks for thinking about the Civil Rights Movement and slavery have obscured in American history. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/hahn_hftf_ep34.mp3 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT 32:13 Hahn, Civil Rights Movement, slavery, nationalism, politics no Kevin Brown Historian Jay Aronson talks about the role of DNA in the discourse around the death penalty, neuro-imaging and criminal justice, and the authority of science in American society. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/aronson_hftf_ep33.mp3 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT 30:20 ______ no Kevin Brown Historian Anna McCarthy discusses her new book, "The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950s America." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/mccarthy_hftf_ep32.mp3 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT 30:05 McCarthy, television, the Cold War, citizen, propaganda, public relations no Kevin Brown Journalist Jeff Biggers discusses his new book, "Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/biggers_hftf_ep31.mp3 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:00 Biggers, coal, labor, environment no Kevin Brown Historian Rhonda Williams discusses her book, "The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/williams_hftf_ep30.mp3 Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:16 Williams, politics, public housing, drugs, Baltimore no Kevin Brown Sociologist and documentary filmmaker Geoff Harkness talks about his 2009 documentary, "I Am Hip-Hop: The Chicago Hip-Hop Documentary." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/harkness_hftf_ep29.mp3 Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:48 Chicago, hip-hop, culture, documentary no Kevin Brown Historian Thomas Sugrue talks about his new book, "Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/sugrue_hftf_ep28.mp3 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT 31:03 Obama, race, Civil Rights Movement, politics, inequality no Kevin Brown Historian Jefferson Cowie discusses his new book, "Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class." http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kcbrown/cowie_hftf_ep27.mp3 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT 29:23 working class, culture, politics, labor, 1970s no Kevin Brown Historian Benjamin Houston discusses his forthcoming book, "The Nashville Way: A Southern City and Racial Change." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/houston_hftf_ep26.mp3 Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:19 Houston, race, Nashville, Civil Rights, Jim Crow no Kevin Brown Historian Richard English discusses his new book, "Terrorism: How to Respond." http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/english_hftf_ep25.mp3 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT 32:06 English, terrorism, Northern Ireland, politics, power no Kevin Brown Susan Douglas talks about her book, "Enlightened Sexism," which deals with media and the new shape of sexism in America. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/douglas_hftf_ep24.mp3 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:00 Douglas, gender, media, feminism, sexism no Kevin Brown Economist Rick Wolff explores the origins of, and problems with, housing policy in the United States. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/wolff_hftf_ep23.mp3 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT 32:50 Wolff, capitalism, housing, crisis no Kevin Brown Journalist Hugh Miles discusses the origins of Al Jazeera, as well as politics in the Middle East http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/miles_hftf_ep22.mp3 Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT 29:45 Miles, Al Jazeera, media, Middle East, Israel no Kevin Brown Historian David Roediger considers the origins of white racial identity and the politics of race in the United States. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/roediger_hftf_ep21.mp3 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:00 Roediger, race, whiteness, immigration, Obama, politics no Kevin Brown Independent historian Rickie Solinger discusses her work on the history of pregnancy, abortion, single motherhood, and race in America. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/solinger_hftf_ep20.mp3 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:28 Solinger, pregnancy, reproductive politics, gender no Kevin Brown Journalist Charles C. Mann talks discusses his book, "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus." Mann describes how new thinking by researchers on the number of Native Americans and their relationship to the environment has overturned old conceptions of North and South America before Columbus. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/mann_hftf_ep19.mp3 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:17 Mann, Native Americans, environment, history, 1491 no Kevin Brown Historian Paul Sabin discusses the development of the oil economy in California, the climate crisis, and the "free market." Guest Paul Sabin undermines the notion of a "free market" through his work on the development of California oil industry and the role of the state in its maintenance and growth. Sabin also considers the role of history in the climate change debate. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/sabin_hftf_ep18.mp3 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:00:00 GMT 32:00 Sabin, oil, California, economics, market, energy no Kevin Brown Heather Steffen discusses the problems and inequalities in the labor of universities. Steffen explores how graduate education, student internships, and the breakdown of the tenure system have shaped U.S. universities, which increasingly reflect the values and structures of corporations. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/steffen_hftf_ep17.mp3 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:06 Steffen, labor, education, capitalism, academia no Kevin Brown Black discusses the world's first oil boom (in Pennsylvania!) and the current oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Black describes the environmental and economic ethic that governed the world's first oil boom in the 1860s, and how aspects of that boom resonate with today's petroleum landscape. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/black_hftf_ep16.mp3 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:00:00 GMT 31:47 Black, environment, oil, capitalism, Pennsylvania, disaster no Kevin Brown Rogers discusses her brand new book "Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution." Rogers describes how the purchase of organic foods, biofuels, and carbon offsets are not solving the environmental and social problems that many consumers believe they will. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/rogers_hftf_ep15.mp3 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT 32:33 Rogers, consumption, environment, capitalism, commodities, nature no Kevin Brown Soluri discusses the "commodity chain" of Banana production and consumption that linked Honduras and the U.S. starting in the early 20th century. Soluri's work on the history of banana production and consumption touches on questions of nature, labor, and the limits of human control, while pushing listeners/readers to consider where, and under what conditions, our food is produced. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/soluri_hftf_ep14.mp3 Tue, 25 May 2010 11:00:00 GMT 32:53 Soluri, bananas, Honduras, environment, commodities, labor, nature no Kevin Brown Rediker discusses his book on the war machine, prison, and factory that was the slave ship. Historian Marcus Rediker considers social relations, terror, and resistance on the vessels that fueled the growth of capitalism in the Atlantic world from the 16th through the 19th century, and he touches on his new work on the Amistad Rebellion. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/rediker_hftf_ep13.mp3 Tue, 18 May 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:00 Rediker, slavery, slave ship, capitalism, resistance, Amistad no Kevin Brown Goldman discusses the purges that gripped the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Historian Wendy Goldman describes the development of the political atmosphere that culminated in the imprisonment and death of Soviet citizens during the 1930s. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/goldman_hftf_ep12.mp3 Tue, 11 May 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:52 Goldman, Soviet Union, USSR, purges, Terror, political repression no Kevin Brown Enyeart discusses the emergence during the late 19th century of a social democratic labor movement in the Rocky Mountain West. Historian John Enyeart talks about the origins of the American social democratic tradition in the Rocky Mountain West, and his new book, The Quest for "Just and Pure Law". http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/enyeart_hftf_ep11.mp3 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:00:00 GMT 31:08 workers, the West, capitalism, socialism, unions, Enyeart no Kevin Brown Historian Karl Jacoby discusses the memories and interpretations of a massacre that took place in 1871 Arizona. Jacoby talks about his new book, "Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History," as well as the mythology of the conservation movement. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/jacoby_hftf_ep10.mp3 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:00:00 GMT 30:20 memory, Native Americans, the West, Conservation, Jacoby no Kevin Brown Economist Richard D. Wolff delves into the origins of the economic crisis. Economist Richard D. Wolff gets into the long history of capitalism's crisis tendency, and answers questions on the state of the U.S. left. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/wolff_hftf_ep9.mp3 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:00:00 GMT 33:48 Capitalism, crisis, politics, Wolff no Kevin Brown Considers the issues facing cities in the Rust Belt. Kate talks about the problems of the Rust Belt, some good ideas for change, and the issues facing journalism in the U.S. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/giammarise_hftf_ep8.mp3 Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:00:00 GMT 27:51 Rust Belt, development, journalism, politics, Giammarise no Kevin Brown Considers the history behind the federal government's control of the car. In what was the pilot episode of HFTF, Lee Vinsel talks about how the state got involved in fuel efficiency, emission control, and crash safety in the U.S. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/vinsel_hftf_ep1.mp3 Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:00:00 GMT 32:36 technology, regulation, safety, politics, Vinsel no Kevin Brown Considers the economic crisis and politics under Obama. This week we talk to Doug Henwood, editor of the Left Business Observer, about economics and politics. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/henwood_hftf_ep7.mp3 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT 29:40 economics, crisis, democracy, politics, Henwood no Kevin Brown Explores the crisis facing journalism and what we should do about it. This week we talk to Bob McChesney, a central figure in the media reform movement, about his new book and the crisis of journalism in the United States. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/mcchesney_hftf_ep6.mp3 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT 31:51 journalism, media, democracy, politics, McChesney no Kevin Brown Considers "the Troubles" from the 1970s to the present. This week we talk to Jason Morgan about "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland, the IRA, and the ideology of counter-terrorism. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/morgan_hftf_ep5.mp3 Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT 31:01 Northern Ireland, Terrorism, Troubles, politics, Morgan no Kevin Brown Exploring the history behind National Forest policy. This week we talk to Samuel P. Hays, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, about the history of, and controversies around, National Forests in the United States. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/hays_hftf_ep4.mp3 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT 28:42 National Forests, environment, ecology, politics, Hays no Kevin Brown Considering the Meaning of Crises in American History This week we talk to College of William and Mary Professor Scott Nelson about the numerous financial crises in American history, and what they mean for us today. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/nelson_hftf_ep3.mp3 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT 33:46 financial panics, crisis, politics, history, Nelson no Kevin Brown Considering the history behind U.S. Drug Policy This week we talk about drug policy in the United States, Addiction, and the harm reduction and needle exchange movement with Carnegie Mellon professor and Prevention Point Pittsburgh co-founder, Caroline Acker. http://www.historyforthefuture.org/hftf_media/acker_hftf_ep2.mp3 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GMT 30:54 drug policy, addiction, harm reduction, politics, history, Acker no