When Anelise Hanson Shrout was in graduate school at New York University, she read an account about how the Choctaw Nation donated to Ireland during the Great Famine, not long after the U.S. federal ...
stood in her kitchen cooking a pot of oatmeal. The caller told Bartoletti that her latest book, “Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850” had just won an award.
This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...