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Teaching Hard History
From Learning for Justice and host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., Teaching Hard History brings us the crucial history we should have learned through the voices of leading scholars and educators. The series, which includes four seasons that originally aired from 2018 to 2022, begins with the long and b...
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Ten More … Film and the History of Slavery w/ Ron Briley
Film historian Ron Briley returns with more suggestions for teaching through film — from thought-provoking documentaries and feature films to miniseri...
Film and the History of Slavery
Film has long shaped our nation’s historical memory — for good and bad. Film historian Ron Briley offers ways to responsibly use films in the classroo...
Diverse Experience of the Enslaved
The experiences of enslaved people varied greatly based on a variety of factors, including time, location, crop, labor performed, size of slaveholding...
Resistance Means More Than Rebellion
For a more complete picture of enslaved people’s experiences, we need to expand our understanding of resistance. Kenneth S. Greenberg, Ph.D., examines...
In the Footsteps of Others: Process Drama
In learning about slavery, students often ask, “Why didn’t enslaved people run away or revolt?” Lindsay Anne Randall explains “process drama” — a meth...
Doing the Work of Teaching Hard History
In many ways, the U.S. has fallen short of its ideals. How can we explain this to students — particularly in the context of discussing slavery? Salem...
Slavery and the Northern Economy
When we think of slavery as a strictly Southern institution, we perpetuate a “dangerous fiction,” according to historian Christy Clark-Pujara. Avoid t...
Slavery and the Civil War, Part 2
Salem State University professor Bethany Jay returns to examine how the actions of free and enslaved African Americans shaped the progress of the Civi...
Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1
What really caused the Civil War? In this episode, Salem State University Professor Bethany Jay examines the complex role that slavery played in causi...
Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow – w/ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries represents New York’s 8th congressional district. Our final episode this season takes us to the U.S. House of Representati...
Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow – w/ Robert T. Chase and Brandon T. Jett
After emancipation, aspects of the legal system were reshaped to maintain control of Black lives and labor. Historian Robert T. Chase outlines the evo...
Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow – w/ Charles L. Hughes
From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Lau...
Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues – w/ Charles L. Hughes
When we consider the trauma of white supremacy during the Jim Crow era—what writer Ralph Ellison describes as “the brutal experience”—it’s important t...
Black Political Thought – w/ Minkah Makalani
Black political ideologies in the early 20th century evolved against a backdrop of derogatory stereotypes and racial terrorism. Starting with Marcus G...
Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West – w/ Charles L. Hughes
From ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and...
Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper Owens
This nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individua...
Music Reconstructed: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters – w/ Charles L. Hughes
This is a special four-part series where historian Charles L. Hughes introduces us to musicians who are exploring the sounds, songs and stories of the...
The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong
During the Harlem Renaissance, more Black artists than ever before were asking key questions about the role of art in society. Oftentimes the Harlem R...
Changing the Game: Sports in the Jim Crow Era – w/ Derrick E. White and Louis Moore
In the United States, Black athletes have had to contend with two sets of rules: those of the game and those of a racist society. While they dealt wit...
The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet – w/ Jill Watts
Opportunities created by the New Deal were often denied to African Americans. And that legacy of exclusion to jobs, loans and services can be seen tod...
Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow – w/ Adriane Lentz-Smith
U.S. involvement in world wars and the domestic Black freedom struggle shaped one another. By emphasizing the diverse stories of servicemen and women,...
Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs – w/ Jelani M. Favors and Tera W. Hunter
Historian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized la...
Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration – w/ David Krugler
Naming the 1921 Tulsa massacre a “race riot” is inaccurate. Historian David Krugler urges listeners to call this and other violent attacks what they w...
Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience – w/ Kidada Williams and Kellie Carter Jackson
Black American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence. Historian K...
Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause – w/ Karen Cox
The Lost Cause narrative would have us believe that Confederate monuments have always been celebrated, but people have protested them since they start...
Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash – w/ Kate Masur
Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kat...
The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race – w/ Edward E. Baptist and Aisha White
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 for...
Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom – w/ Matthew R. Kay
People from all corners of public life are telling teachers to stop discussions about race and racism in the classroom, but keeping the truth of the w...
Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today
This season, we’re examining the century between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery pers...
Baseball, Civil Rights and the Anderson Monarchs Barnstorming Tour (special) - w/ Steve Bandura and Derrick White
In 2015, Coach Steve Bandura loaded the Anderson Monarchs, a little league baseball team from Philadelphia, onto a 1947 Flxible Clipper Bus for a barn...
Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement – w/ Shannon King and Nishani Frazier
The civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric...
The Black Panther Party and the Transition to Black Power – w/ Robyn C. Spencer and Jakobi Williams
The history of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense can help us understand the transition from civil rights to Black Power, as well as contemporar...
Malcolm X Beyond the Mythology – w/ Clarence Lang
Historian Clarence Lang joins us for a conversation about Malcolm X. We discuss his commitment to Black pride and self-determination and his rejection...
Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC – w/ Courtland Cox, Kaia Woodford, Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell
In this episode, we talk with movement veteran Courtland Cox about lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and his own development...
Listen, Look and Learn: Using Primary Sources to Teach the Freedom Struggle – w/ J. Todd Moye, Guha Shankar, and Noelle Trent
Oral histories, historic sites, archives and museums expand students’ understanding of the past. They fill in gaps in our textbooks—complementing what...
Young, Gifted and Black: Teaching Freedom Summer to K-5 Students – w/ Nicole Burrowes. La Tasha Levy and Liz Kleinrock
Teaching civil rights history to young learners creates both opportunities and challenges. The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and the subsequ...
Making a Scene: The Movement in Literature and Film – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong
From the hard work of organizing to the reality of everyday life under Jim Crow, films and literature can bring historical context to life for student...
The Real Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott – w/ Emilye Crosby
Everyone thinks they know the story, but the real history of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott is even better. This episode details the events...
Connecting Slavery with the Civil Rights Movement
To fully understand the United States today, we have to comprehend the central role that slavery played in our nation’s past. That legacy is also the...
Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure – w/ Charles McKinney
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