Interviews

| History, Politics
Robert O. Self discusses how struggles over family were central to the ascendency of conservative ideology in the U.S. after the 1960s and how disputes over the relationship between government and family could result in future political realignments.More
| Citizenship, Civil rights, History, Law
An interview with Rebecca Scott, professor of law and history at the University of Michigan.More
| Employment, History, Labor
An interview with Erin Hatton, a SUNY Buffalo sociologist and author of the book, “The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America.”More
| Education, History, Poverty
John Marsh discusses his book, "Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality." Marsh’s study questions the limits of education as a tool for eliminating inequality and poverty in the United States.More
| History, Labor, Politics
A History for the Future interview with labor historian Jefferson Cowie on the death of the New Deal order and the rise of working class conservatism over the course of the 1970s.More
| Poverty
An interview with Professor Maurice Isserman, Michael Harrington's biographer, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Harrington's landmark examination of poverty in America.More