Thinking Historically About The New Deal with Dr. H. Paul Thompson, Jr.

In this episode, we are thinking historically with Dr. H. Paul Thompson, Jr. Dr. Thompson is Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of History at North Greenville University. His teaching and research interests include the 19th-century temperance movement, African American history, and the history of Christianity in America. His book, A ‘Most Stirring and Significant Episode:’ Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865-1887, explores the rise of temperance sentiment among freed African Americans in Atlanta, which contributed to Atlanta enacting prohibition in 1885. In this episode, we ask Dr. Thompson about how Black Americans experienced The New Deal under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and how the legislation under his presidency impacted their lives.

This episode is part of Thinking Nation's curriculum series, "Thinking Historically About." In each episode, a scholar helps us understand the historical questions that students are engaging with in our curriculum.