David Krugler: 1919 Year of White Terrorism

David Krugler is a historian and novelist. A professor of history at the University of Wisconsin--Platteville, he has published, in addition to two novels, nonfiction books on propaganda, Cold War civil defense, and black resistance to white mob violence after World War I. Professor Krugler discusses his book, 1919: the Year of Racial Violence and How African Americans Fought Back. We specifically focus on Chicago and Knoxville riots with an eye on how Black World War I veterans factored into…

Jonathan Wells: Southern Manifesto

Jonathan Daniel Wells, Ph.D., is Professor of History in the Residential College, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Department of History at the University of Michigan.. His most recent books are Blind no More: African American Resistance, Free Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War and The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War. Prof. Wells points to the Fugitive Slave Act and Northern resistance to the Federal Law as…

Browen Everill: Abolition and Ethical Capitalism

Bronwen Everill is the incoming Director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Gonville & Caius College. She is the author of Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Bronwen Everill examines how abolitionists from Europe to the United States to West Africa used new ideas of supply and demand, consumer credit, and branding to shape an argument for ethical capitalism. Prof.…

Ronnie Dunn: Racial Profiling and Traffic Stops

Dr. Ronnie A. Dunn recently assumed the role as the inaugural executive director of The Diversity Institute at Cleveland State University, where he has been an associate professor of Urban Studies since 2004. Dr. Dunn discusses his work on traffic patterns, driving populations, and police ticketing in Cleveland. His work was pivotal in exposing Cleveland Police's racial bias' in traffic ticketing and in the use of traffic cameras.

Eric Foner: Reconstruction's Consititution

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. Professor Foner discusses his book "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution." By looking at the history of debate and aftermath of each Post-War Amendments, Prof. Foner examines how each sought to permanently end American Slavery.

Alexandra Natapoff: Misdemeanor System

Alexandra Natapoff, Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert. Professor Alexandra Natapoff discusses her book, Punishment without Crime. How America's Misdemeanor justice system targets the innocent, taxes the poor, and generates revenue for the public and private sector. We discuss why people plead guilty to low level infractions and how that impacts minority and at-risk populations.

Patricia Banks: How Corporate Philanthropy Leversage Black Culture

Patricia A. Banks is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Poetics and Chair and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. Professor Banks discusses her book, Black Culture Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America. By examining how corporate support and giving to Black museums, cultural events, and music festivals, Prof. Banks details the complicated and often fraught relationship created by these gifts. Afropunk, Kool Cigarettes, and Dennys are all…

Derek W. Black: History of Public Education

Derek Black is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law and the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law. Professor Derek W. Black discusses his new book, Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy. We begin with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's personal interest in founding a national public education system

John Kyle Day: Southern Manifesto

John Kyle Day, Professor of History at University of Arkansas at Monticello, discusses his book, The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation. Professor Day looks at the congressional statement drafted and signed by 99 congressmen aimed against Brown V. Board of Education's decision to desegregate public schools. The statement, nicknamed the Southern Manifesto, accomplished both the white supremacist's goal of blocking Civil Rights while providing…

Nakia D. Parker: Slavery in the Chickasaw Nation

Nakia D. Parker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. Professor Nakia Parker discusses her article, "Regarded as an Appendage of His Family”: Slavery, Family, and the Law in Indian Territory." Chattel slavery spread into the Chickasaw Nation, in part, due to the "Civilization Program." How the Chickasaw legalized ownership and kinship is the focus of our discussion.

Stephanie R. Logan: School Vouchers and Charters

Stephanie R. Logan is an associate professor of elementary and multicultural education. Prof. Logan discusses the history of public school vouchers and the rise of charter schools in the United States. The discussion begins in 1954 and continues through the 21st Century by looking at her 2018 article, "A Historical and Political Look at the Modern School Choice Movement."

Kevin Waite: Transcontinental Ambitions of the American South

Kevin Waite is an assistant professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Professor Waite discusses his book, West of Slavery: the Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. He explains his thesis that the Southern Slave States had ambitions and plans to extend slavery across the West. Prof. Waite explains how railroads, camels, and the hope for new international markets all played a part in the coming of the Civil War.

Andres Resendez: Native American Slavery

Andrés Reséndez is a professor of history and author who grew up in Mexico City and currently teaches at the University of California at Davis. Professor Resendez discusses his book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Prof. Resendez discusses pre-Colonial enslavement among the native people of North America and the Caribbean. How the Spanish invasion changed native societies, altered slavery, and decimated entire populations. Also discussed is how the…

Daniel Kilbride: Cannibals, Gorillas, and Racist Travel Tropes

Daniel Kilbride is professor of history and director of the Honors Program at John Carroll University. Professor Daniel Kildride discusses his article, “Cannibals, Gorillas, and the Struggle over Radical Reconstruction.” By examining best selling travel books of explorers and missionaries in Africa the current events of the 1850-1870s take on a new racist tone. How sensational tales of cannibalism and brutality sold books and tickets on the lecture circuit to how Darwin's Origin of the…

Sally Hadden: Slave Patrols

Dr. Sally Hadden is a professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of History at Western Michigan University. Professor Sally Hadden discusses her book, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virgina and the Carolinas. Prof. Hadden explains the origin and purpose of the slave patrol, how the patrols differed from the militia, who made them up and what the patrols were charged with accomplishing. We discuss how slave patrols operated before and were stressed during the Civil War.…

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae: Women of White Supremacy

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae is the Creighton Sossoman Professor of History at Western Carolina University where she also co-directs the Appalachian Oral History Project. Professor Elizabeth Gillespie McRae discusses her book, Mothers of Massive Resistance. We begin with the shocking history of Virgina's Racial Integrity Law which sought to identify citizens attempting to "pass" as white and how this law served to discipline Segregationist ideologies. Next, we look into how women…

Kathryn Gin Lum: Heathen and Race-Making in the Chirstian World

Kathryn Gin Lum is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and History (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Professor Kathryn Gin Lum discusses her book, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History ." Prof. Lum begins by explaining the Doctrine of Discovery and how the colonizers of the Americas imported the idea of the pagan or heathen. How Christian missionaries came to understand native…

Fran Shor: White Identity Politics

Francis Shor is an Emeritus Professor of History at Wayne State University. Professor Fran Shor talks about his book, Weaponized Whiteness [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/...] which interrogates the meanings and implications of white supremacy and, more specifically, white identity politics from historical and sociological perspectives. Prof. Shor looks at the history of immigration, slavery, and moments of resistance against White Supremacy. Examining how white people participated in the…

Vida Johnson: White Supremicist Police at Jan. 6th

Professor Vida Johnson discusses her 2022 Brooklyn Law Review article, White Supremacy’s Police Siege on the United States Capitol. Professor Johnson details the failures of the Capitol Police, the unsettling involvement of active law enforcement officers in the January 6th Insurrection, and how White Supremacists continue to infiltrate and plague police departments. The difference in police preparation, presence, and intervention between the Jan. 6 and Black Lives Matter protests is instructive…

Bjorn Stillion Southard: African Colonialization Movement's Ultimate Failure

Bjørn Stillion Southard is an Associate Professor and Director of Debate at the University of Georgia. Professor Bjørn Southard discusses his book, Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement. Prof. Southard outlines how the African Colonization Movement hoped to reach some middle ground between southern enslavers and northern abolitionists in order to solve the fears both had about a free black population in the US. While the Colonization idea was supported many…

Fran Shor: Weaponized Whiteness and Gun Violence

Why does the United States have so much gun violence and why is it so difficult to overcome? Obviously, there are numerous contributing factors to the persistence of gun violence from the legacy of a frontier past to the proliferation of guns to toxic masculinity. However, one significant aspect, often overlooked, is the role of systemic racism. This power point presentation will explore the long history of racist currents in American gun violence. Francis Shor is a Professor Emeritus of History…

Margaret Ellen Newell: Native American Slavery in New England

Professor Margaret Ellen Newell isl professor of history at Ohio State University. Professor Newell discusses her book, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, which explores the enslavement of Indians by the English Colonists in New England. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists’ desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars, focusing the conflicts on obtaining captives and…

Pamela Newkirk: Racial Diversity

Pamela Newkirk, PhD, is a journalist, New York University professor, author and multi-disciplinary scholar whose work examines contemporary and historical depictions of African Americans in popular culture. Professor Pamela Newkirk discusses her book, Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business. She exposes the decades-old practices and attitudes that have made diversity a lucrative business while they fail to realize diversity. We discussed the history of exclusion, the…

Barbara Krauthammer: Black Slaves, Indian Masters

Barbara Krauthamer, professor of history and Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Barbara Krauthamer discusses her book, Black Slaves, Indian Masters, which examines the role of slavery in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. She explores the tensions brought these Native American tribes by missionaries, trade, and the "civilizing" project of Euro-Americans. The role of slavery as a form of assimilation which Native…

Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Black Power in Alabama

Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University. Professor Hasan Jeffries discusses his book Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt. We talk about what made this rural Alabama County such an important and complicated location in the Civil Rights struggle. How school desegregation and voting registration was still accomplished in the shadow of some of the era's worst white terrorism. And how the Black Power slogan was born,…

Emily J. M. Knox: Why Ban Books? Understanding the Discourse of Censorship and Its Effects

Many attempts to ban books in schools and libraries have made headlines over the past few months. Almost all of these attempts have failed and yet the attempts continue. Why do people ban books? What are they trying to accomplish? What are the effects and how should we respond? Emily Knox is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her book, Book Banning in 21st Century America (Rowman & Littlefield) is the first monograph…

Leslie Picca: Two Face Racism

Professor Leslie Picca discusses her work, Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage, which examines the racial attitudes and behaviors exhibited by whites in private versus public settings. Prof. Picca explains how simple racial jokes work to maintain dominant racism while offering up an easy out for racists. The creation of these white safe spaces where intolerance and prejudice are elaborated are rarely challenged by other whites, instead the behaviors are excused or dismissed.…

Cameron Fields & Hannah Drown: Cleveland's Promise

Hannah Drown has been with The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com since 2014. During her five years as the Facebook Live news reporter, she covered breaking news, crime, entertainment and a number of other topics through on-the-scene broadcast reporting. Prior, she worked on the Cleveland’s Best team and launched a gluten-free lifestyle column. Cameron Fields has written for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer since 2020, when he started as a general assignment reporter covering COVID-19,…

Nell Irvin Painter: History of White People

Nell Irvin Painter is the award-winning author of many books, including Sojourner Truth, Southern History Across the Color Line, Creating Black Americans, The History of White People, and Standing at Armageddon. She is currently the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University. She has a second career as an artist after retirement from Princeton University and lives in Newark, New Jersey. Professor Painter discusses her book, THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE. Prof. Painter…

Diane Negra: Irish Identity in America

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. Professor Diane Negra discusses her most recent scholarship which investigates Irish identity in the United States. She begins with the election of John F. Kennedy with a sense of hopefulness which progressed through the 1980s and 1990s with an explosion of interest in all things Irish. But beginning in the 2000s, Professor Negra locates a growing sense of dread as images of skulls and death begin to…