Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with American Historian and Author, Professor Jason Sokol, exploring his work and the themes of his books, including The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jason Sokol is an American historian and a Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He has written three books on the civil rights movement: There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights (Alfred A. Knopf), which was named one of the top 10 books of 2006 in the Washington Post Book World; All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn (Basic Books, 2014); and The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., which was first published by Basic Books and recently released in paperback by the University of Georgia Press.
Sokol was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, and graduated from Oberlin College. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Harvard, Cornell, and Penn, and was awarded a Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals and popular publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Politico, The Root, and The Nation.
