All Episodes
Teaching Hard History — 70 episodes
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
Classroom Experiences – w/ Tamara Spears and Jordan Lanfair