Dr. Carol Anderson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies and associated faculty in the History Department, recently sat for an interview on the “Big Books and Bold Ideas” show from Minnesota Public Radio. Anderson was interviewed alongside Lindsay M. Chervinsky, a presidential historian and the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. Speaking in the lead up to the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, Anderson and Chervinsky draw parallels to earlier periods in U.S. history and offer commentary on the country’s political trajectory. Anderson is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally-Unequal America (Bloomsbury, 2021). Listen to the MPR conversation here: “On the brink of the inauguration, historians reflect on America’s trajectory.”