On this episode of Stay Tuned, “So What & Who Cares?” Preet answers listener questions about his efforts to have a word added to the dictionary, and the unique nature of grand juries. 

Then, Preet interviews award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman, who are the co-hosts of the new CAFE podcast, Now & Then. The first episode is out now. Just search and follow “Now & Then” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!  

Don’t miss the bonus for CAFE Insiders, where the historians discuss whether they ever disagree, Joanne’s unusual housepet, and 1970s popular culture. 

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REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

QUESTION & ANSWER:

• Preet’s December 2020 tweet about papadum, 12/15/2020
• “How Does a Grand Jury Work?” Findlaw, 11/09/2020

THE INTERVIEW:

• Listen to the first episode of Now & Then
• “America, Racism & Patterns of Change (with Heather Cox Richardson),” Stay Tuned with Preet, 6/11/2020
• Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, Substack
• History Matters webcast with Joanne Freeman

VOTING RIGHTS

• Texas Senate Bill 7
• Amy Gardner, “Texas Democrats block restrictive voting bill by walking off the floor to deny GOP-majority House a quorum,” Washington Post, 5/31/21

CHARLOTTESVILLE

• Jane Coaston, “Trump’s new defense of his Charlottesville comments is incredibly false,” Vox, 4/26/2019
• Denise Lavoie, “Man who drove into Charlottesville protest, killing Heather Heyer, convicted of first-degree murder,” PBS, 12/7/2018

THE BIDEN AGENDA

• Mike Allen, “Inside Biden’s private chat with historians,” Axios, 3/15/2021
• Ron Suskind, “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush,” New York Times, 10/17/2004
• H.R.1319 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
• Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan, “The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era,” University Press of Florida, 3/1/2018
• Joan E Greve, “Biden visits Tulsa to honor victims of 1921 race massacre,” The Guardian, 6/1/2021
• “What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed,” New York Times, 5/24/2021 

POLITICAL VIOLENCE

• Joanne Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic, Yale University Press, 8/11/2002
• Joanne Freeman, “Dueling as Politics: Reinterpreting the Burr-Hamilton Duel,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 1996
• Joanne Freeman, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9/11/2018
• Transcript of President George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
• National Security Act of 1947
• “Senate Republicans block January 6 commission,” CNN, 5/28/21