Lisa McGirr's guest appearances

Lisa McGirr

Carnegie Council Podcasts

1919: The Year of the Crack-Up

PSYCHOACTIVE

Nan Woodruff

David Sager

David Bordwell

Anna Clark

Dwight Eisenhower

Maurice Isserman

Eugene Debs

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Ted Widmer

Adam Green

Teddy Roosevelt

Gyan Prakash

Christopher L. Pastore

Matthew Avery Sutton

Erez Manela

OwlTail

In the second podcast in The Crack-Up series, which looks at how 1919 shaped the modern world, historian Ted Widmer talks to Harvard's Professor Lisa McGirr about Prohibition's roots in anti-immigrant sentiment and its enforcement, in some cases, by the Ku Klux Klan. Plus, they discuss the Eighteenth Amendment's connections to World War I and the rise of the modern American state.

<p>In the second podcast in The Crack-Up series, which looks at how 1919 shaped the modern world, historian Ted Widmer talks to Harvard's Professor Lisa McGirr about Prohibition's roots in anti-immigrant sentiment and its enforcement, in some cases, by the Ku Klux Klan. Plus, they discuss the Eighteenth Amendment's connections to World War I and the rise of the modern American state.</p>

Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr

The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr