The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic with Manisha Sinha
On this special episode of Historians & Their Histories, guest host Megan Kate Nelson interviews Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. They discuss Prof. Sinha's latest publication, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. Prof. Sinha tells us about the scholars that influenced her understanding of Reconstruction as well as how she is reconceptualizing the history of this period.
Prof. Sinha is a 2016-2017 recipient of the MHS-NEH long-term fellowship.
Host:
Megan Kate Nelson, Ph.D. is a historian and writer, an MHS Fellow, and a member of the Boston Environmental History Seminar steering committee. She is the author of four books, including Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner 2022; winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Historical Non-Fiction) and The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020; 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist in History).
Episode Special Guest:
Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. A historian of the long nineteenth century, her latest book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (2024).
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