Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to ListenWhen Rick Atkinson completed his best-selling Liberation Trilogy, about World War II, he decided to embark on another trilogy about a much earlier conflict. “The British Are Coming” is the first of three planned volumes on the American Revolution. “I thought, in 2013, when I started working on this, that it was important,” Atkinson says on this week’s podcast. “It seems to me that it’s more important than ever now to understand who we are, where we came from, what our forebears believed and the most important question any people can ask themselves: What were they willing to die for?”Image CreditBrenda Wineapple visits the podcast this week to talk about her new book, “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation,” about the attempt to remove Lincoln’s successor from office. “It was an event — I think a major event in American history — that really has been swept more or less aside,” Wineapple says.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2019 18:03 UTC