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The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race

Historian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a force for political change.

September 13, 2021

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Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash

Episode 4, Season 4 Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kate Masur notes how—in the face of evolving, post

September 28, 2021

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Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause

Episode 5, Season 4 The Lost Cause narrative would have us believe that Confederate monuments have always been celebrated, but people have protested them since they started going up. Historian Karen Cox unpacks how the

October 18, 2021

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Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience

Episode 6, Season 4 Black American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence. Historian Kidada Williams amplifies perspectives from Black

October 26, 2021

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Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration

Episode 7, Season 4 Naming the 1921 Tulsa massacre a “race riot” is inaccurate. Historian David Krugler urges listeners to call this and other violent attacks what they were: premeditated attempts at ethnic cleansing

November 8, 2021

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Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs

Episode 8, Season 4 Historian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized labor to their advantage, despite virulent white

November 30, 2021

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The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet

Episode 10, Season 4 Opportunities created by the New Deal were often denied to African Americans. And that legacy of exclusion from jobs, loans and services can be seen today in federal programs and policies as well as

January 11, 2022

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Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow

Episode 15, Season 4 After emancipation, aspects of the legal system were reshaped to maintain control of Black lives and labor. Historian Robert T. Chase outlines the evolution of convict leasing in the prison system

March 2, 2022

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Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice

Episode 13, Season 4 This nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individual enslaved persons for gruesome experimentation

March 14, 2022

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Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow

Episode 16, Season 4 Congressman Hakeem Jeffries represents New York’s 8th congressional district. Our final episode this season takes us to the U.S. House of Representatives for a conversation between Rep. Jeffries and

May 11, 2022

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