Steve Inskeep is best known as the host of NPR's Morning Edition, but he's also an author. His new work of nonfiction is JACKSONLAND: President Andrew Jackson, Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab. It centers on Jackson and Ross's twenty-year battle over ownership of Cherokee lands, a battle that "seems at once distant and familiar," according to the publisher.
"Ross and his allies made their case in the media, committed civil disobedience, and benefited from the first mass political action by American women," according to a media release about the book. "Their struggle contained ominous overtures of later events like the Civil War and set the pattern for modern-day politics."
Read an excerpthere.
Inskeep is promoting the book on his Web site, and is asking the public to send photos for potential inclusion on his site:
Please send me your images that reveal something about Jacksonland. Take your own picture of a place, building, statue or person. Show me signs of the past—or show me how different the modern landscape looks today! Photograph old buildings in their new context, or modern-day people going about their lives in this historic place. Share them on social media or submit them to this site.
Suggested locationsinclude Chattanooga, Nashville, North Georgia, and Cherokee, North Carolina.