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.
#1421 The Two Jeffersons
#1420 HannaLore Hein
#1419 Our Weariness
#1418 Captain Cook
#1417 After the Election with Joseph Ellis
#1416 What Just Happened?
#1415 Opinions and Principles
#1414 A Nation Divided
#1413 Jefferson the Lawyer
#1412 His Excellency
#1411 Supreme Court
#1410 Monticello Overtime
#1409 American Sphinx with Joseph Ellis
#1408 Aaron Burr
#1407 Our Perilous Contest
#1406 Election of 1800
#1405 Monuments Response
#1404 Humor Me
#1403 Power and Dissent
#1402 Monuments
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