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History for the Future

Through interviews with historians and journalists, History for the Future explores the historical roots of contemporary social issues and policies, often revealing the hidden assumptions and political choices defining the present.

HFTF Audio Interview The promise of wilderness: Part 2 By Kevin C. Brown \| Environment A History for the Future interview on the wilderness movement, public lands, and environmental politics since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. Part 2 of a two-part interview. More	HFTF Audio Interview The promise of wilderness By Kevin C. Brown \| Environment A History for the Future interview on the wilderness movement, public lands, and environmental politics since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. More
HFTF Audio Interview A World More Concrete By Kevin C. Brown \| Housing, Race N.D.B. Connolly, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of the book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. Connolly’s work delves into the way that real estate strengthened segregation in greater Miami from the early 1900s into the post-Jim Crow era. As Miami’s population boomed, where residents came to live was limited by strict lines drawn through the region’s geography, lines that divided white and black, workers and elites. More	HFTF Audio Interview Recovering lost voices By Kevin C. Brown \| Education An interview with Robert Townsend on how the history profession narrowed over time, who became marginalized, and why it is important to value things other than the production of book-length manuscripts on narrowly defined subjects. More
HFTF Audio Interview Summer in the city By Kevin C. Brown \| NYC, Politics An interview with the editor of a new collection of essays on John Lindsay’s mayoralty. A very different time in New York City, and a very different vision of governing it. More	HFTF Audio Interview Sacrificing safety on the altar of nuclear preparedness By Kevin C. Brown \| Energy, Environment An interview with Kate Brown, the author of "Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters." More

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