Presidents' Day Special with Steve Inskeep, Tom Gjelten and the Kitchen Sisters

On this Presidents’ Day, we look into the life and times of President Andrew Jackson with NPR’s Steve Inskeep. He wrote the book, Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab. We re-air a conversation with Inskeep from June 2015. ~~~ William Henry Harrison had a short presidency. It lasted just a month before he died. But he did accomplish a lot before he took office. From the Memory Palace podcast, Nate DeMaio shares an essay, “The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle.” ~~~ Immigration was a hot-button issue of the 2016 election. NPR’s Tom Gjelten dives deep into immigration laws and patterns in his book, A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story. We re-air a conversation from October 2015. ~~~ Radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson are The Kitchen Sisters. They produced a series called Hidden Kitchens, and today we’re sharing one called, “Black Chefs. White House.”