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Guests: Kevin Kruse is a Professor of History at Princeton University. Julian Zelizer is a Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
*Interview taped on 1/21/19. On this episode of Stay Tuned, Kevin and Julian discuss: - Their new book Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 that traces the history of today’s economic, political and social divisions
- The legacy of civil rights movements and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The role of Twitter historians and their obligation to speak up and correct misinformation
References made in the episode:
- Kruse and Zelizer’s Washington Post op-ed on The Fairness Doctrine
- A 2000 poll asking people if they were in the top 1%; read David Brooks analysis of the results
- Zelizer’s op-ed on Pence’s invocation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words
- Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech
- Kevin’s debut Twitter thread on Southern Democrats
- Enes Kanter’s Stay Tuned video
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