1343 Yale History Professor Greg Grandin + News & Clips
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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Greg Grandin, who received his doctorate at Yale University under the direction of Emilia Viotti da Costa and Gilbert Joseph, previously taught at New York University for nineteen years. He is the author of seven books, including The Blood of Guatemala, which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for best book published on Latin America in any discipline, The Last Colonial Massacre, Empire’s Workshop, Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Award, The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history, Kissinger’s Shadow, and The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was a finalist in the history category. Grandin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians. He has co-edited, with Gil Joseph, A Century of Revolution, and, with Deborah Levenson and Elizabeth Oglesby, The Guatemala Reader. Grandin has published widely, in The Nation, where he is a member of the editorial board,the London Review of Books, the New Republic, NACLA’s Report on the Americas, and the New York Times, among other venues. He is a regular guest on Democracy Now! A revised edition of Empire’s Workshop is forthcoming.
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing about what's going on right now is unprecedented. Everything is precedented. |
| 0:06.8 | And then he started giving me a tour to force of other moral moments in America. |
| 0:11.4 | Crisis that we had, from the Civil War to the Great Depression, to Nazis, rally in Madison |
| 0:17.2 | Square Garden, filling it up, to a military general in the Depression saying we need an authoritarian take over for our country, just a little bit until we usher it through this period. |
| 0:25.6 | He told me about Father Conklin, not just the number one radio show in America, but the majority of Americans listened to him with his anti-Semitic screams. |
| 0:33.6 | He took a whole swath of American history. |
| 0:36.6 | All of these moments where we were at a |
| 0:38.8 | crossroads and it was a moral moment. And then he asked me what had us at those crossroads |
| 0:44.7 | choosing the right direction? And I paused and didn't answer. He goes, well, let me tell you. It was not the |
| 0:49.9 | person in the White House. It was not the people in Congress, the senator of the House. |
| 0:55.9 | Every time our country came to a moral crossroads, it was the soul of America, the conscience |
| 1:02.2 | of the people, the action and the activism, whether it was the Vietnam War or the Civil |
| 1:10.1 | Rights Movement, or the suffrage movement, or the civil rights movement, or the suffrage movement, |
| 1:12.8 | or the abolitionist movement, or the labor movement, or the LGBTQ movement, |
| 1:17.7 | every time it was the power of the people. |
| 1:20.9 | In a moral moment, people stood up. |
| 1:23.7 | In a moral moment, people spoke up. |
| 1:26.5 | In a moral moment, people rose up and said, this is my country. |
| 1:32.0 | It is we the people. |
| 1:34.4 | We the people. |
| 1:36.2 | We're going to stand up. |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to stand up. |
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