Interviews

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Interview with Geoffrey Ward (Repost)

Interview with Geoffrey Ward, historian and writer of scripts for Ken Burns. Author of The American Revolution‍ (Knopf, 2025), ‍The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2017), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2014), and others. Script writer of The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz, and more.

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Interview with Gregory Enns, author of “Cow Creek Chronicles: The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch”

Gregory Enns is a fifth-generation Floridian who has been a reporter and editor in Florida and Alabama for decades. He is the founder and owner of Indian River Media Group, which includes Indian River Magazine. He has a new book out with the University Press of Florida: Cow Creek Chronicles: The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch.  We interviewed Enns about that book and Florida history.

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Interview with Jason Vuic, author of “A Town Without Pity”

Jason Vuic’s new book is A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South (University Press of Florida, 2025). It comes out 10/21/25, so we chatted with him about the story of Arcadia, FL, in the year 1987, and many other things Florida-related.

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An interview with historian Jeffrey Lesser

An interview with historian Jeffrey Lesser about his new book, Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2025).

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Interview with Robert Darnton (Repost)

An interview with Robert Darnton, premier cultural historian and most recently author of The Writer’s Lot (Harvard University Press, 2025). The Writer’s Lot is set to be his final book. [This interview is a repost.]

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Interview with poet Richie Hofmann, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

Interview with Richie Hofmann, poet and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also the recipient of a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He is the author of A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), and his work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. He currently teaches in the Humanities Core at the University of Chicago.

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