All Episodes

Classroom Experiences

Slavery Today

Confronting Hard History at Montpelier

Slavery in the Supreme Court

Slavery in the Constitution

Ten More … Film and the History of Slavery

Film and the History of Slavery

Diverse Experience of the Enslaved

Resistance Means More Than Rebellion

In the Footsteps of Others: Process Drama

Doing the Work of Teaching Hard History

Slavery and the Northern Economy

Slavery and the Civil War, Part 2

Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1

Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow – w/ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries

Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow – w/ Robert T. Chase and Brandon T. Jett

Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes' Classical Perspective on Jim Crow – w/ Charles L. Hughes

Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues – w/ Charles L. Hughes

Black Political Thought – w/ Minkah Makalani

Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West – w/ Charles L. Hughes

Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper Owens

Music Reconstructed: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters – w/ Charles L. Hughes

The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong

Changing the Game: Sports in the Jim Crow Era – w/ Derrick E. White and Louis Moore

The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet – w/ Jill Watts

Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow – w/ Adriane Lentz-Smith

Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs – w/ Jelani M. Favors and Tera W. Hunter

Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration – w/ David Krugler

Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience – w/ Kidada Williams and Kellie Carter Jackson

Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause – w/ Karen Cox

Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash – w/ Kate Masur

The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race – w/ Edward E. Baptist and Aisha White

Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom – w/ Matthew R. Kay

Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today

Baseball, Civil Rights and the Anderson Monarchs Barnstorming Tour (special) - w/ Steve Bandura and Derrick White

Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement – w/ Shannon King and Nishani Frazier

The Black Panther Party and the Transition to Black Power – w/ Robyn C. Spencer and Jakobi Williams

Malcolm X Beyond the Mythology – w/ Clarence Lang

Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC – w/ Courtland Cox, Kaia Woodford, Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell

Listen, Look and Learn: Using Primary Sources to Teach the Freedom Struggle – w/ J. Todd Moye, Guha Shankar, and Noelle Trent

Young, Gifted and Black: Teaching Freedom Summer to K-5 Students – w/ Nicole Burrowes. La Tasha Levy and Liz Kleinrock

Making a Scene: The Movement in Literature and Film – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong

The Real Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott – w/ Emilye Crosby

Connecting Slavery with the Civil Rights Movement

Teaching the Movement's Most Iconic Figure – w/ Charles McKinney

The Jim Crow North – w/ Patrick D. Jones

Nonviolence and Self-Defense – w/ Wesley Hogan, Christopher Strain and Akinyele Umoja

New Film: The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors – w/ Alice Qannik Glenn

Jim Crow, Lynching and White Supremacy – w/ Stephen A. Berrey, Hannah Ayers, Lance Warren and Ahmariah Jackson

A Playlist for the Movement – w/ Charles L. Hughes

Beyond the "Master Narrative" – w/ Nishani Frazier and Adam Sanchez

Reframing the Movement – w/ Nishani Frazier and Adam Sanchez

Wrap Up: Teaching the Connections – w/ Bethany Jay

Hard History in Hard Times – Talking With Teachers

Inseparable Separations: Slavery and Indian Removal

Slave Codes, Liberty Suits and the Charter Generation – w/ Margaret Newell

Using the WPA Slave Narratives – w/ Cynthia Lynn Lyerly

Groundwork for Teaching Indigenous Enslavement – w/ the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective

Mid-season Recap: Key Lessons on Indigenous Enslavement

Silver, Resistance and the Evolution of Slavery in the West – w/ Andrés Reséndez

The Other Slavery – w/ Andrés Reséndez

Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 2 – w/ Debbie Reese

Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 1 – w/ Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

In the Elementary Classroom – w/ Kate Shuster, Marian Dingle, Bria Wright, Marvin Reed and Alice Mitchell

Indigenous Enslavement: Part 2 – w/ Christina Snyder

Indigenous Enslavement: Part 1 – w/ Christina Snyder

The Hidden History of American Slavery – w/ Maureen Costello, Eduardo Díaz and Renée Gokey

Wrap up: Questions from the Classroom – w/ Bethany Jay

Young Adult Trade Books – w/ John H. Bickford

Sample Lessons – w/ Jordan Lanfair and Tamara Spears