1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

Interview with Glenn C. Altschuler, Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University, in which we discuss his book, coauthored with Isaac Kramnick, Cornell: A History, 1940-2015.

Peter Conners, author of Cornell ’77: the Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall joins us. Peter has written extensively about music and counterculture, including his books Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, JAMerica: The History of the jam Band and Festival Scene, and White Hand Society: The Psychedlic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. Peter lives in Rochester, New York, where is publisher of BOA Editions, Ltd.