All Episodes
Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast — 112 episodes
Episode 113 – Racial Formation Theory with Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Episode 112 – James Baldwin and Racial Innocence with Kristine Taylor
Episode 111 – Plantation Goods – A Material History of Slavery with Seth Rockman
Episode 110 – Doomsday Cults and America with Jane Borden
Episode 109 – African Kings, Iberian Traders, and Black Slaves with Herman Bennett
Episode 108 – The Violence of the Great Replacement with Luke Baumgartner
Episode 106 – Pregnancy, Birth, and Doulas with Andrea Ford
Episode 105 – Post-Racial Deception of the Roberts Court with Cedric Merlin Powell
Episode 104 – Frantz Fanon and Anti-Colonialism with Adam Shatz
Episode 103 – Highlander Folk School and the Civil Rights Movement with Elaine Weiss
Episode 102 – Genetics and Race with Rina Bliss
Episode 101 – Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation with Andrew Lawler
Episode 100 – Alt-Right, Nazis, and Trump Staffing with Amanda Moore
Episode 99 – Interrupting the Supreme Court with Tonja Jacobi
Episode 98 – Sherman’s March of Emancipation with Bennett Parten
Episode 97 – White Innocence and Black Infant Mortality with Annie Menzel
Episode 96 – Private Prisons After Dobbs with Robert Craig
Episode 95 – From “Feminist Lies” to “White Replacement” with Katharina Motyl
Episode 94 – When Immigrants Call the Police with Alexia Rauen
Episode 93 – Inside the January 6th Insurrection with Julie Farnam
Episode 92 – Christo-Fascist Code in Project 2025 with Andra Watkins
Episode 91 – Sexual Antisemitism with Aidan Beatty
Episode 90 – Neo-Nazi Counterculturalism with Spencer Sunshine
Episode 89 – Immigration Detention with César García Hernández
Episode 88 – Police Contact and Disparity with Emily Widra
Episode 87 – Race and the Roberts Court with Khiara M. Bridges
Episode 86 – Mohonk Conference and Black Education with Lasana Kazembe
Episode 85 – The Carceral Home with Kate Weisburd
Episode 84 – Kali Gross Vengeance Feminism
Episode 83 – Dog Whistles and Coded Speech with Anne Quaranto
Episode 82 – Hell of a Storm Coming of the Civil War with David S. Brown
Episode 81 – Civil War and Racial Medicine with Leslie Schwalm
Episode 80 – Constitutional Sheriffs with Jessica Pishko
Episode 79 – Legacy of David Walker’s “Appeal” with Marcy Dinius
Episode 78 – Black Resistance to White Supremacy with Kellie Carter Jackson
Episode 77 – History of School Vouchers with Josh Cowen
Episode 76 – Effective Policing with Tracey L. Meares
Episode 75 – Cuyahoga County Bail Reform with Jonathan Witmer-Rich
Episode 74 – Gift Giving in Uncle Tom’s Cabin with Alexandra Urakova
Episode 73 – Genetics and Alzheimer’s Disease with Jonathan Haines
Episode 72 – Teaching Black Internationalism with Jonneke Koomen
Episode 71 – Deputization and White Violence with Ekow Yankah
Episode 70 – Proving Pregnancy with Felicity Turner
Episode 69 – History of Controlling Pregnancy with Kathleen Crowther
Episode 68 – Teaching White Supremacy with Donald Yacovone
Episode 67 – Book Learning and Slave Education with Christopher Span
Episode 66 – Texas: Race, War, Colonialism with Gerald Horne
Episode 65 – Black Homicide Victims with Gian Maria Campedelli
Episode 64 – White Christian Nationalism and the Church with Jim Wallis
Episode 63 – Why You Might End Up In Prison with Justin Brooks
Episode 62 – Police Violence and Pregnant People with Jaquelyn Jahn
Episode 61 – Land and Identity in Africa with Kevin C. Dunn
Episode 60 – War on the Klan with Fergus Bordewich
Episode 59 – Judges and White Supremacy with Vida Johnson
Episode 58: How Parents Talked To Their Children About BLM with Onnie Rogers
Episode 57 – Slavery Origins of Gynecology with Deirdre Cooper Owens
Episode 56 – Auburn Prison and the Murder that Shocked America with Robin Bernstein
Episode 55 – Radical Acts of Justice with Jocelyn Simonson
Episode 54 – Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum with Antonia Hylton
Episode 53 – Slave Hospitals with Stephen Kenny
Episode 52 – All Lives Matter Racism with Professor Sang Hea Kil
Episode 51 – Irish Identity in America with Diane Negra
Episode 50 – History of White People with Nell Irvin Painter
Episode 49 – Microaggressions with Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo
Episode 48 – Two Face Racism with Leslie Picca
Episode 47 – Shaker Heights’ History of Integration with Laura Meckler
Episode 46 – Black Trans Feminism Liberation with Marquis Bey
Episode 45 – Hemings, Baartman and Complicated Fame with Samantha Pinto
Episode 44 – Native American Slavery with Andres Resendez
Episode 43 – The Transcontinental Ambitions of the American South with Kevin Waite
Episode 42 – Slavery in the Chickasaw Nation with Nakia Parker
Episode 41 – Black Slaves, Indian Masters with Barbara Krauthamer
Episode 40 – Native American Slavery in New England with Margaret Ellen Newell
Episode 39 – The History of Reparations with Manisha Sinha
Episode 38 – Smashing Monuments with Erin Thompson
Episode 37 – Estimating the Cost of Reparations with Thomas Craemer
Episode 36 – Reparations and Black Slave Owners with Reginald Bell
Episode 35 – Public Opinion of Reparations with Michael Conklin
Episode 34 – Colonialism: Religion, Class, Race with Gerald Horne
Episode 33 – Black Power in Alabama with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Episode 32 – Racial Diversity with Pamela Newkirk
Episode 31 – The Women of White Supremacy with Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Episode 30 – The Southern Manifesto with John Kyle Day
Episode 29 – The Year of White Terrorism with David Krugler
Episode 28 – Color of Law with Richard Rothstein
Episode 27 – Dave Brubeck’s Civil Rights Advocacy with Kelsey Klotz
Episode 26 – The Eighth Amendment, Pt. 3 with Alexandra Natapoff
Episode 25 – The Eighth Amendment, Pt. 2 with Vida Johnson
Episode 24 – The Eighth Amendment, Pt. 1 with Alex Reinert
Episode 023 – Slavery and the Courts, Pt. 2 with Jonathan Daniel Wells
Episode 022 – Slavery and the Courts, Pt. 1 with Paul Finkelman
Episode 021 – Cleveland – Past, Present, and Future, Pt. 3 with Cullen Sweeney
Episode 020 – Cleveland: Past, Present, and Future, Pt. 2 with Ronnie A. Dunn
Episode 019 – Cleveland: Past, Present, and Future, Pt. 1 with Cameron Fields & Hannah Drown
Episode 018 – Slavery’s Constitution Part 2 with Eric Foner
Episode 017 – Slavery’s Constitution Part 1 with Steve Luxenberg
Episode 016 – Slavery and Medicine Part 2 with Eric Herschthal
Episode 015 – Slavery and Medicine Part 1 with Rana Hogarth
Episode 014 – Colonial Reckoning Part 4 with Ibrahim K. Sundiata
Episode 013 – Colonial Reckoning Part 3 with Randolph McLaughlin
Episode 012 – Colonial Reckoning Part 2 with Jennifer L. Morgan
Episode 011 – Colonial Reckoning Part 1 with Trevor Burnard
Episode 010 – The 1619 Project and Social Engagement with Laura Bieger
Episode 009 – How Corporate Philanthropy Leverages Black Culture with Patricia A. Banks
Episode 008 – Slave Patrols and the Origins of Police with Philip Reichel
Episode 007 – The History of Public Education with Derek W. Black
Episode 006 – Race and Education with Nancy Heitzeg
Episode 005 – Abolition and Ethical Capitalism with Bronwen Everill
Episode 004 – Slavery and Capitalism with Professor Caitlin Rosenthal
Episode 003 – Race and the Death Penalty with Alexis Hoag
Episode 002 – Redlining and the Home Owners’ Loan Company with Todd Michney
Episode 001 – Historians and 1619 Debate with David Waldstreicher