{"id":4378,"date":"2021-01-10T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2021-01-10T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:22:37","slug":"lesser-interviewed-by-radio-france-international-on-storming-of-u-s-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/01\/10\/lesser-interviewed-by-radio-france-international-on-storming-of-u-s-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Interviewed by Radio France International on Storming of U.S. Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Radio France International recently interviewed Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lesser-jeffrey.html\">Jeffrey Lesser<\/a> about the insurrection and attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The interview (in Portuguese) is headlined, &#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/br\/podcasts\/rfi-convida\/20210107-foi-um-ataque-contra-a-democracia-e-tamb%C3%A9m-um-exemplo-de-racismo-diz-historiador-sobre-invas%C3%A3o-no-congresso-americano\">It was an attack on democracy and an example of racism,&#8217; says historian about the invasion of the American Congress<\/a>.&#8221; Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My interview today on Radio France International discussing yesterday&#39;s coup attempt in the United States &#8211; the headline reads &quot;It was an attack on democracy and an example of racism&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QnAJG5aVhY\">https:\/\/t.co\/QnAJG5aVhY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jeffrey Lesser (@JeffreyLesser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffreyLesser\/status\/1347284525089435650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio France International recently interviewed Dr.\u00a0Jeffrey Lesser about the insurrection and attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The interview (in Portuguese) is headlined, &#8220;&#8216;It was an attack on democracy and an example of racism,&#8217; says historian about the invasion of the American Congress.&#8221; Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}