Jan Jarboe Russell's guest appearances

Jan Jarboe Russell

History Author Show

National Book Festival 2015 Videos

Chez Zee Author Series with Cari Clark

Walter Isaacson

David McCullough

David Maraniss

James Buchanan

Bryan Stevenson

Katherine Johnson

Grover Cleveland

James Madison

Charles Fishman

Alexander Hamilton

Dan Wells

Orson Welles

Laura Lippman

Jon Meacham

Marilynne Robinson

OwlTail

Cari Clark

Honor the 50th anniversaryof Austin’s Taniguchi Gardenwith the author of The Train toCrystal City, the story of theTexas internment camp duringWWII.

Honor the 50th anniversary of Austin’s Taniguchi Garden with the author of The Train to Crystal City, the story of the Texas internment camp during WWII.

Jan Jarboe Russell | Chez Zee Author Series with Cari Clark | 3.13.2019

March 11, 2016 - Today’s history author, Jan Jarboe Russell, revisits the dark period of World War Two when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the infamous Executive order 9066. You may recall that we interviewed Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's great-great-grandson and a distant cousin to Franklin, about his novel Allegiance, covering the fight over these deportations at the Supreme Court.From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children, who were all U.S. citizens. Ms. Russell takes a closer look at this travesty of justice in her non-fiction book: The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II.You can learn more about her work at JanJarboeRussell.com, or by following her on Twitter @JarboeJan.Simon &amp; Schuster's History in Five Friday.  It’s the perfect way to kick off your modern weekend… with people from the past.

March 11, 2016 - Today’s history author, Jan Jarboe Russell, revisits the dark period of World War Two when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the infamous Executive order 9066. You may recall that we interviewed Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's great-great-grandson and a distant cousin to Franklin, about his novel Allegiance, covering the fight over these deportations at the Supreme Court. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese, German, Italian immigrants and their American-born children, who were all U.S. citizens. Ms. Russell takes a closer look at this travesty of justice in her non-fiction book: The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II. You can learn more about her work at <a href="http://JanJarboeRussell.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JanJarboeRussell.com</a>, or by following her on Twitter @JarboeJan. Simon &amp; Schuster's History in Five Friday.  It’s the perfect way to kick off your modern weekend… with people from the past.

H5F: Jan Jarboe Russell – The Train to Crystal City

Sep. 5, 2013. Jan Jarboe Russell discusses "The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Journalist and author Jan Jarboe Russell was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and writes on politics, religion and social issues. Her work has been in the Savannah Morning News, The San Antonio Light, Texas Monthly, Slate, The New York Times and San Antonio Express News. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas and is vice president of Gemini Ink and the Linda Pace Foundation. Russell has published the books "Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson" and "The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II." She is a certified first-degree black belt in Nia. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6914

Sep. 5, 2013. Jan Jarboe Russell discusses "The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Journalist and author Jan Jarboe Russell was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and writes on politics, religion and social issues. Her work has been in the Savannah Morning News, The San Antonio Light, Texas Monthly, Slate, The New York Times and San Antonio Express News. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas and is vice president of Gemini Ink and the Linda Pace Foundation. Russell has published the books "Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson" and "The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II." She is a certified first-degree black belt in Nia. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit <a href="http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6914" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6914</a>

Jan Jarboe Russell: 2015 National Book Festival