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People's Historians Podcast — 69 episodes

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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea (with Marcus Rediker)

2

Until the Last Gun Is Silent (with Matthew Delmont)

3

On a MOVE: Repairing Histories of State Violence (with Mike Africa Jr. and Krystal Strong)

4

Jarvis Givens on Black History Month

5

Black History Is for Everyone (with Brian Jones)

6

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back

7

King of the North: Part Two (with Jeanne Theoharis)

8

How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How it Shaped America

9

Traveling Black: A Long Journey of Resistance with Mia Bay

10

Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance (with Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry)

11

Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins

12

King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South

13

Reconstruction Robbery: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank

14

The Healing of Organized Remembering: The Struggle to Teach Truth

15

Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

16

Racism and Resistance in the North During the Civil Rights Movement (w/ Brian Jones)

17

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (w/ Kellie Carter Jackson)

18

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on Reparations and Climate Justice

19

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

20

Everyday Solidarity Interracial Organizing Stories from The Sum of Us

21

Khalil Gibran Muhammad on The Condemnation of Blackness

22

Michael Hines on the Fight for Black History in Schools

23

Blair L. M. Kelley on Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

24

Teaching About the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

25

Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching Truthfully About U.S. History

26

Howard French on Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

27

Linda Villarosa on Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

28

Kidada Williams on I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

29

Jeanne Theoharis on Starring Mrs. Rosa Parks: Film Excerpts and Behind the Scenes Commentary

30

Dayo Gore on Want to Start a Revolution? Black Women Radicals Confront the Red Scare

31

Matt Delmont on “We Return Fighting”: The Black Freedom Struggle During World War II

32

Ashley Farmer on Queen Mother Moore, Black Nationalism, and the Centuries-long Fight for Reparations

33

Alaina Roberts on Black Freedom on Native Land

34

People’s History Commemoration of Howard Zinn’s 100th Anniversary

35

Kelly Lytle Hernández on the 1910 Mexican Revolution

36

Kidada E. Williams “Seizing Freedom”

37

Johanna Fernández on the Young Lords

38

Vikki Law on Myths About Mass Incarceration

39

Martha Jones on Black Women in the Fight for Voting Rights

40

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You Won’t Read About in Textbooks

41

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

42

The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World

43

Until Justice be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement

44

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History

45

When South African Apartheid Was Overthrown: Lessons for the Movement for Black Lives Today (with Gerald Lenoir)

46

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (with Cierra Kaler-Jones and Clint Smith)

47

The Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (with Garrett Felber and Stephen Wilson)

48

The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike with Tera W. Hunter

49

A Black Women’s History of the United States with Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

50

Julian Bond and the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Georgia (with Jeanne Theoharis, Pamela Horowitz, and Judy Richardson)

51

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks with Jeanne Theoharis

52

Reconstruction: Repression and Resistance

53

Paul Robeson, Political Outlaw: Lessons for Today from the Black Radical Tradition

54

Organizing for Voting Rights: Lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

55

Abolitionists & Reconstruction

56

A History of Rebellions (w/ Jeanne Theoharis)

57

Reconstruction and Juneteenth

58

Reconstruction, Citizenship, and Movement Building in the 19th Century

59

Examining the Historical Roots of the 2020 Rebellion (w/ Keisha N. Blain)

60

Black Feminist Organizing: 1950s to the 21st Century (w/ Barbara Ransby)

61

Black Left: 1930s to the Early 1950s

62

Black Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle (w/ Dave Zirin)

63

Women in the Black Panther Party

64

Rethinking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

65

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (w/ Courtland Cox & Judy Richardson)

66

The Civil Rights Movement in the North (w/ Jeanne Theoharis)

67

Teenagers in the Civil Rights Movement (w/ Jeanne Theoharis)

68

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks with Jeanne Theoharis, Part II

69

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks with Jeanne Theoharis, Part I