Category Archives: Audio

S7E5 Podcast: John Shelton Reed on Barbecue, the South, and Geezerhood

Stan’s guest this week is renowned (and recovering) sociologist John Shelton Reed, who discusses his career, what’s still southern about the South, the Campaign for Real Barbecue, and writing country music lyrics.

S7E3 Podcast: History, Memory, and Monuments: A Conversation with Kevin Levin

This week Stan’s guest is Kevin Levin, author of the Civil War Memory Substack blog and one of the country’s foremost experts on the history and memory of the Civil War era, including the ongoing controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and debates concerning the teaching of slavery and race in the classroom.