Podcasts about just nation

This week, we bring you two powerful conversations about justice, community, and hope. First, we speak with Reverend Gregory Holston, founder of Just Nation, an organization dedicated to fighting racism at every level of government. Reverend Holston shares details about the upcoming Coalition to Defend Democracy Mass Rally, happening Tuesday, April 22, from 6–8 PM at 10th Memorial Baptist Church (1328 N. 19th Street, Philadelphia).

Guest: Brenda Wineapple is an award-winning author of several books including ‘The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation and her latest, Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation.   The post The Scopes Monkey Trial: A Battle About Science, Religion, Truth, and Freedom of Thought  appeared first on KPFA.

The Breakdown is live w/ guests Eric Ward and Brenda WineappleThis week on The Breakdown hosts Rick Wilson and Tara Setmayer welcome Eric Ward, executive director of West State Center, and Brenda Wineapple, author of “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation”. Eric and Brenda are here to break down the insurrection and the impending Trump impeachment trial. This discussion includes the role of antisemitism and white nationalism in the attack in the U.S. Capitol, how Trump's Impeachment compares to others throughout history, and more.

Though our crew has the day off in observance of Juneteenth today, we put together a show featuring two archival interviews that focus on a pair of injustices black Americans have had to endure. First up is our 2015 interview with Dax-Devlon Ross about his research into black juror exclusion, a persistent problem in the U.S. legal system. Then we listen to our 2019 conversation with Brenda Wineapple focusing on her excellent book, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. In the wake of the Civil War, Johnson vetoed legislation that Congress passed to protect the rights of those who had been freed from slavery, and the ramifications of that veto are still felt today. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brenda Wineapple, author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.

Brenda Wineapple (https://brendawineapple.com) connects with Ink Slingers via Zoom Books by Brenda Wineapple: The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation (2019) Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts On Life, Writing, Spirituality, And The Promise Of America (2019) Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, And Compromise, 1848-1877 (2013) Nineteenth Century American Writers On Writing (2010) White Heat: The Friendship Of Emily Dickinson And Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2008) John Greenleaf Whittier’s: Selected Poems (2004) Hawthorne: A Life (2003) Sister Brother: Gertrude And Leo Stein (1996) Genêt: A Biography Of Janet Flanner (1989) Want to connect with Ink Slingers? Tweet us @inkslingers2 or catch us on Instagram @inkslingerspodcast. Music: Dub Feral by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3683-dub-feral License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

(2/15/21) You’ve heard it said over and over in the past four years that Donald Trump was “like no president in modern history,” but what about in all of American history? Known for his racist diatribes in public speeches and capitulation to the Confederacy, Lincoln’s Vice President Andrew Johnson was the first president to face impeachment. Though Johnson was only impeached once. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI, presidential historian and author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, Brenda Wineapple compares the two administrations.

Brenda Wineapple, author of "The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of A Just Nation," comes by to talk about the first presidential impeachment, and why we should care about it 153 years and four more impeachments later.

This week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Brenda Wineapple, author of the award-winning Hawthorne: A Life and The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. They discuss her definitive biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the 170th anniversary of the publication of his classic novel, The Scarlet Letter. They explore how Hawthorne's writing was... Source

“The fantasy of isolation, the fantasy of intervention: they create recluses and activists, sometimes both, in us all.” This is Brenda Wineapple on the friendship of Emily Dickinson, in my view America's greatest poet, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, editor, writer, abolitionist, activist, and soldier. During this time of a global lockdown, let's listen to Dickinson again.  I spoke with Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, about Dickinson's remarkable assuredness, her confidence, and her decision to spend much of her life largely secluded in her father's home in Amherst, Massachusetts. In this self-elected state of being on her own, Dickinson had intense, passionate and transformative relationships, including one with the editor, writer, abolitionist and soldier Thomas Wentworth Higginson. "Are you too preoccupied to say whether my verse is alive?" was the question Dickinson laid out like a snare in her first letter to him.  Higginson fell for this brilliant rhetorical ruse, and Brenda explains how Dickinson's remarkable friendship with a man whom academics like to relegate to the dustbin of history, or at best footnote status, is a major reason Dickinson's poetry is with us today. Brenda also explains how America has always struggled with the choice between separateness and connection, and how to understand Dickinson not as the spinster from Amherst, the victim of the patriarchy, or a forlorn recluse but as a superbly confident and self-assured poet. "To be alive is power,/ existence in itself,/ Without a further function,/ Omnipotence enough." Brenda is the author of a number of books, including The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation,  Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877, and more . I recorded this conversation while in Covid-19 lockdown. The poems here are read by Anna Kathryn Kendrick.   

Today Steve talks about impeachment, but it’s not exactly what you think.  Steve interviews Brenda Wineapple, author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and The Dream of a Just Nation. [...]

It's the start of a new decade and impeachment is in the air. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the very first time the Congress tried to get rid of a very unfit president in 1868. Andrew Johnson, a virulent racist, wanted to pretend the Southern states didn't actually secede and Radical Republicans weren't keen on a prez playing king. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Gordon-Reed, Annette. “The Fight Over Andrew Johnson's Impeachment Was a Fight for the Future of the United States.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Jan. 2018, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fight-andrew-johnson-impeachment-fight-future-united-states-180967502/. Lyons, Patrick J. “Trump Wants to Abolish Birthright Citizenship. Can He Do That?” The New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/us/birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-trump.html. “The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) President of the United States.” U.S. Senate: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) President of the United States, 18 Dec. 2019, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Impeachment_Johnson.htm. Wineapple, Brenda. The Impeachers: the Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. Random House, 2019.

Host Mitch Jeserich talks with Brenda Wineapple about the first impeachment of a sitting president, Andrew Johnson in 1868. Brenda Wineapple is the author of the book The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. The post The First Impeachment of a President appeared first on KPFA.

Air Date 12/17/2019 Today we take a look at the history of impeachment starting with the crafting of the language in the constitution and on to how the impeachment process has played out over time. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 Take our audience survey: http://survey.libsyn.com/hippiesympathizer EPISODE SPONSORS: Bombas.com/LEFT  |  Madison-Reed.com (Promo Code: LEFT)  |  Clean Choice Energy SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK  MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content!) SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Impeaching Other Presidents - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 12-7-19 Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and the co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Ch. 2: Lessons From That Other Impeachment - On the Media - Air Date 12-6-19 Bob interviews Brenda Wineapple, author of The Impeachers: the Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. She describes our country's first presidential impeachment as a divisive, acrimonious one. Ch. 3: Nixon, Clinton, and What the Right Gets Wrong About Impeachment - Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan - Air Date 12-5-19 Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss what the current congress can learn from the historical examples of Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, and Andrew Johnson. Ch. 4: John Dean On The Impeachment Comparisons - On the Media - Air Date 11-15-19 Brooke speaks to Nixon's former White House counsel John Dean to get his reflections on what other meaningful comparisons there are between these proceedings and the ones against Clinton and Nixon. Ch. 5: Tom Brokaw Remembers Watergate - Article II Inside Impeachment - Air Date 11-16-19 Brokaw discusses his time covering the fall of President Nixon and the parallels to today, as the nation watches the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump unfold. VOICEMAILS Ch. 6: Let them gather information - Jeff from New York Ch. 7: Why I became a member - Alan from Connecticut FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 8: Final comments on why it’s worth it to try to do the right thing TAKE ACTION! **TONIGHT (TUES. DEC. 17th): National "Nobody Is Above The Law" Protests Planned for Night Before House Impeachment Vote** Curated by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Milkwood - The Cabinetmaker Cases to Rest - Bodytonic Felt Lining - The Cabinetmaker The Spinnet - Castle Danger Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | Alexa Devices | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

Brenda Wineapple, author of “Impeachers - The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation,” sets the record straight that was virally flawed by Prof. Jonathan Turley during this week’s House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearing.Host: Mark ThompsonExecutive Producer: Adell ColemanProducer: Brittany TempleDistributor: DCP EntertainmentFor additional content: Subscribe to the Make It Plain LIVE Daily Call-in Show Mon-Fri 7-9a ET at makeitplain.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Mitch Jeserich talks with Brenda Wineapple about the first impeachment of a sitting president, Andrew Johnson in 1868. Brenda Wineapple is the author of the book The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. The post The First Impeachment of a President appeared first on KPFA.

The year 1865, after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice President Andrew Johnson became the original “accidental President,” was a dangerous time in America. Devastated by war and resorting to violence, many white Southerners hoped to maintain a highly segregated and unequal society, if not slavery, something that looked a lot like it. Johnson seemed to share their goals, despite the great cost of the Civil War, which had concluded only in April of that same year. With the unchecked power of executive orders, President Andrew Johnson ignored Congress, pardoned rebel leaders, promoted white supremacy, opposed civil rights and called Reconstruction unnecessary. It fell to Congress to stop an American president who acted as if he was a king. In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Brenda Wineapple talks about her new book “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” which details the first presidential impeachment in American history.

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Brenda Wineapple, author of the recently released and critically acclaimed “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” heralded as a “riveting and absorbing book” by The New York Times and both “a guidebook” and “cautionary tale for our times” by the Boston Globe.The subject today: impeachment Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and the righteous Republicans and the first ever impeachment in American history. After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the first U.S. president to fall victim to assassination the country entrusted it's survival to an accidental president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat from Tennessee who had forged a unity ticket with Lincoln for reelection. Despite Lincoln's assessment that Johnson was, in his words, “a good man” or at least he thought the new leader abandoned the promise of emancipation and enfranchisement and defied the protection of America's newest citizens. My guest today will analyze this history and its contemporary relevance. 

As the country debates whether President Trump should be impeached, many are making comparisons to past presidencies like Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. Less attention, however, is paid to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Brenda Wineapple, author of “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation,” joins Julian Zelizer to discuss the components of the impeachment process of Johnson. Having begun “The Impeachers” six years ago, Wineapple talks about her book and demonstrates Johnson’s impeachment as a significant event in American history. Wineapple also wrote “Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877,” named a “Notable Book” by The New York Times and “White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.” Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

On The Gist, calculating whether or not impeachment is the right move. In the interview, Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached so Congress had to basically figure out how it worked as they did it. Brenda Wineapple is here to discuss the reasons for that impeachment, why the conviction failed, and what it can teach us about our current situation. Wineapple’s new book is The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.  In the Spiel, the 1994 crime bill.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, calculating whether or not impeachment is the right move. In the interview, Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached so Congress had to basically figure out how it worked as they did it. Brenda Wineapple is here to discuss the reasons for that impeachment, why the conviction failed, and what it can teach us about our current situation. Wineapple’s new book is The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.  In the Spiel, the 1994 crime bill.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices