Brandon Jett is the host of the podcast New Books in the American South. This podcast features interviews with authors about their recently published books and is part of the larger New Books Network. Click the links below to listen to his interviews with the various authors.
Interview with Alejandra Dubcovsky on October 13, 2023. Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South (Yale University Press, 2023).
Interview with M.V. Hood III & Seth C. McKee on February 8, 2023. Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story (University of South Carolina Press, 2022).
Interview with Virginia L. Summey on December 7, 2022. The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts (University of Georgia Press, 2022).
Interview with David Silkenat on November 10, 2022. Scars Across the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Interview with Guy Lancaster on October 26, 2022. American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching (University of Arkansas Press, 2021).
Interview with Jodi Skipper on September 9, 2022. Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South (University of Iowa Press, 2022).
Interview with Ariela J. Gross on May 31, 2022. Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Interview with John S. Huntington on April 19, 2022. Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
Interview with K. Stephen Prince on March 17, 2022. The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 (UNC Press, 2021).
Interview with Rachel Marie-Crane Williams on February 15, 2022. Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching (Verso Books, 2021).
Interview with Fay A. Yarbrough on January 26, 2022. Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country (UNC Press, 2021).
Interview with Edward L. Ayers on December 8, 2021. Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2021).