Summary: This week at ITPL, the American history podcast, I interview historian Karen Cox, about her new book: Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South. It tells the incredible story of a murder that took place in Natchez, Mississippi in 1932. It’s a captivating tale in its own right, but as you’ll soon hear, the Goat Castle story reveals a great deal about the US in the 1930s, everything from mass media and sensationalism, to Jim Crow racism and popular nostalgia for the Old South.
