Clay Jenkinson joins his friend Dennis McKenna in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico to observe the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Chaco Canyon dates to at least the ninth century CE, more than a thousand years ago, and somehow their skywatchers know how to observe equinoxes, solstices, and eclipses. What better place to see the solar eclipse of 2024? Administered by the US National Park System, but interpreted for us by a Native Navajo and Zia expert Kailo Winters, it was a magical experience in a sacred place. We came away impressed by the capacity of the European Enlightenment to figure all of this out, but far more in awe of the Puebloan scholars who figured such phenomena out centuries before European science was out of its swaddling clothes. We also check in with our favorite Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri.
#1599 Underway! Tracing Steinbeck’s “Travels with Charley” Journey
#1598 A Conversation with Political Cartoonist Phil Hands
#1597 Arbor Day and the Seeds of Liberty
#1596 Ten Things on Nullification
#1594 Live from Oklahoma
#1593 The LTA Survey and American Reflections
#1592 Geert Mak and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley
#1591 The Election of 2024 and the Constitution
#1590 Ten Things: The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence
#1589 Loss of Respect for American Institutions
#1588 Presidential Norms
#1587 The Sad History of Executive Orders
#1586 Ten Things on Margaret Bayard Smith
#1585 Ten Things About John Randolph of Roanoke
#1584 The Red Barber Program
#1583 College Football as Cultural Lens
#1582 On the Trail of John Steinbeck
#1581 Henry Wallace and the World That Might Have Been
#1580 Ten Things about the Hamilton-Jefferson Relationship
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