my co-host nathan connelly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. he is the herbert -- herbert baxter adams chair of history at the johns hopkins university. he is the author of a world more concrete, real estate and the remaking of jim crow's south florida. he is also hard at work on a book that is really a deep transnational family history. is that -- >> that's right. >> a fair description? >> yes. >> and it's called "four daughters" and it's a five generation history of one working class family whose travels and travails took them between the caribbean, europe and the united states. nathan is also an overall good citizen and as part of his good citizenship he has been involved in a project that a number of you out there are working on called mapping inequality where you're laying out the landscape of red lining in the united states. joey thompson graduated from the university of virginia about 12 minutes ago and his dissertation is titled "sounding southern: music, militarism and the making of the sun belt." this is -- i will say it publicly -- o

that do, you know excite us and we can turn these sort of narratives, what about the work of nathan connellyabout the violent destruction about putting a freeway right through black communities. he says it is no less violent. i think he is a he right there. or how about the tax policies that rip whole communities apart in the central areas, completely dislocating those communities. labor laws, you're right we don't have the violent clashes as much anymore, the intimidati intimidation, but we have basically taken away your right to join a union and have that ability to right to work laws, the right to starve laws and that kind of question. we have the questions about voting, you know, just -- but now we can blame you for not getting to the polls on time or registering. how about the zoning that goes along with not allowing the multi-family units that might be possible for those dislocated or actually enabling them to have food in their actual neighborhoods that we have whole food deserts. the lack of healthcare questions and that there seems to be a real -- there are real casualties to this t

. >>> next on american history tv, backstory host brian balogh and nathan connelly give a behind the scenes look at their weekly podcast. they are joined by a former staff member and a regular guest. this was part of a two-day purdue university conference called remaking american political history. it's an hour and a half. >> okay. good morning. >> good morning. >> welcome to the 10:45 panel called something like behind the scenes at backstory. >> that's right. >> maybe. just so you know you are not on the wrong flight. i'm brian balogh and i've been a co-host for backstory for over ten years now. i'm going to introduce the