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The Author’s Corner with Gregg L. Michel

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 17, 2025

Gregg L. Michel is Professor of History and Assistant Department Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This interview is based on his new book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s […]

The Author’s Corner with John Wigger

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 14, 2023

John Wigger is Professor of History at the University of Missouri. This interview is based on his new book, The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI’s Battle to Stop It (Oxford […]

The Author’s Corner with Lerone Martin

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 1, 2023

Lerone Martin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. This interview is based on his new book, The […]

The FBI on the trail of Aretha Franklin

John Fea   |  September 14, 2022

Nina Corcoran and Jazz Monroe explain at Pitchfork: The FBI has declassified its file on the lateĀ Aretha Franklin. TheĀ document, which spans 270 pages and includes reports from more than a dozen states, shows that the FBI extensively tracked Franklin’s civil […]

Donald Trump in 2016 on “classified information”

John Fea   |  August 14, 2022

From The Washington Post:

Franklin Graham sounds more like a member of a Trump cult than a Christian leader

John Fea   |  August 10, 2022

Yesterday Franklin Graham appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network to offer his opinion on the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Watch: Let’s break this down. 00:40ff: The host, Doug McKelway, describes how the execution of […]

Merrick Garland and the FBI just woke up the court evangelicals

John Fea   |  August 9, 2022

The FBI exercised a search warrant at Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago last night. The New York Times has some ongoing coverage here. Here is a taste of Trump’s message to followers: My “favorite” line in this statement is “especially based […]