Document today, with context from our past, and learn moving forward.
Past Forward is a Webby Award‑winning public podcast service and national bookstore committed to educational accessibility through creative and cultural opportunities.
In this episode we connect with Gioia Woods, author of City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Biography of a Bookstore. We discuss the life and legacy of poet, publisher, and...
Gioia Woods, author of City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Biography of a Bookstore reads Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Contents Episode Books Guest Credits Transcription Books Our public podcast service,...
This is an introduction to Season Five of Chapters. In this episode we document the year 2025, with context from our past, and we learn moving forward. Our goal with...
When we started this project in August of 2024 we were focused on the fact that 18 out of the 20 most destructive fires in California’s history have happened in...
In this episode we connect with Martin Puchner, author of the book Literature for a Changing Planet. We discuss his philosophical journey to the intersection of literature, history and ecology...
In this episode we connect with Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and former head of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. We discuss...
In this episode we connect with Margaret Elysia Garcia. We discuss the book, Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country. We talk about her curation of stories...
"If you think about preserving history, or you think about preserving culture, or uplifting culture, to a very large extent, you are talking about memory, you are talking about preserving memory."
"Fire is just immensely complex and managing it requires a lot of complex, thoughtful policy and a lot of agility. These are not things that institutions are known for."
Nick Mott and Justin Angle The Fire Problem, EP525
"I came of age during the Asian American, the Black, the students of color movements. I came into this field with that burning mission to raise up underutilized or underserved people and voices."
"I think we have to be able to think broadly enough and deeply enough to say what is it about a place and a people that will allow atrocious villainy to go on for hundreds and hundreds of years.
"Environmentalism and civil rights in 1979, two separate tracks. In some cases it took almost a decade, in some cases two decades to get the two movements to converge, and it's called environmental justice."
