The Road to Now

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Bob Crawford (The Avett Brothers) & Dr. Ben Sawyer (MTSU History) share conversations with great thinkers from a variety of backgrounds – historians, artists, legal scholars, political figures and more –who help us uncover the many roads that run between past and present. For more information, visit TheRoadToNow.com If you'd like to support our work, join us on Patreon: Patreon.com/TheRoadToNow

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The Road to Now

Episodes (485)

Jul 27th Necropolis: Disease, Power & Capitalism in 19th Century New Orleans w/ Kathryn Olivarius
Jul 20th The Civilian Conservation Corps w/ Neil Maher
Jul 13th Mitch McConnell: The Price of Power w/ Michael Tackett

The Road to Now

Jul 27, 2026
54¾ minutes
73 MB

Kathryn Olivarius joins Bob & Ben to explain the powerful role that Yellow Fever played in shaping all aspects of life in New Orleans during the 19th Century. Kathryn is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Necropolis: Disease, Power & Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, (Harvard University Press, 2022). She was also a 2024 recipient of the Dan David Prize. This is a rebroadcast of #329, which originally aired on March 10, 2025. This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer.

The Road to Now

Necropolis: Disease, Power & Capitalism in 19th Century New Orleans w/ Kathryn Olivarius

RTN Productions

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