A Desi Woman with Soniya Gokhale

Renowned Historian, Author and Professor Dr. Manisha Sinha joins us to discuss the events of January 6, 2021, whereby a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol Building. Dr. Sinha places this in historical context as the country tries to make sense of the incomprehensible state of this nation, in the last days of President Donald J. Trump and the current administration. Dr. Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, and the Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society, for the current academic year. She ever received her PhD from Columbia University, where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft Prize. She taught at the University of Massachusetts for over 20 years, where she was awarded the Chancellor's Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon faculty. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, which was named one of the 10 best books on slavery in Politico, in 2015, and featured in The New York Times' 1619 project. Her second book, the multiple award-winning, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, was long-listed for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, and has lectured all over the world, and written widely for the mainstream press, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall street Journal, to name a few. A historian of the long 19th century, her research interests lie specifically in the transnational histories of slavery, abolition, and feminism, and the history and legacy of the Civil War and reconstruction.