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.
#1541 Ten Things About Dolley Madison
#1540 The Jeffersonians in Power
#1539 The Alcoholic Republic
#1538 Explaining the Marshall Trilogy
#1537 Thinking about Statues and Monuments
#1536 Ten Things: Jefferson and John Marshall
#1535 Forgotten Founder
#1534 Alexander Hamilton and the U.S. Constitution
#1533 A Conversation with Hamilton Scholar Hal Bidlack
#1532 The Enlightenment in 2022: A Progress Report
#1531 The Return Journey of Lewis and Clark
#1530 A Conversation with Jeffersonian Gardener Pat Brodowski
#1529 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part Two)
#1528 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part One)
#1527 Year in Review
#1526 Christmas 2022
#1525 Both Sides Now
#1524 Past Present Future with Joseph Ellis
#1523 Core Principles
#1522 Thankful
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