This Land is Your Land by Beverly Gage is a road-trip through the past (and present) alongside an award-winning historian. Beverly joins us to talk about human migration, nostalgia, historical conservation, J. Edgar Hoover and more with host Miwa Messer.
The Westerners by Megan Kate Nelson is a fascinating portrait of the American West. Megan joins us to talk about defining the frontier, historical figures, cowboys, identity and more with host Miwa Messer.
Listen in as these authors speak separately with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
Featured Books (Episode):
This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark
The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier by Megan Kate Nelson
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban
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