Fergus Bordewich discusses his newest book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction. Mr. Bordewich explains how the Klu Klux Klan was America's first terrorist organization intent on counterrevolution after the Civil War. How President Grant...
Vida Johnson, professor at law at Georgetown law, discusses her article "White Supremacy and the Bench." In which she describes how judges maintain and enforce structural racism. Judges benefit from a cultural cache of authority, prestige and as unbiased arbiters of...
Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens discusses her book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, which traces the origins of American reproductive health to slave hospitals. As white doctors expanded their practices onto plantations, quickly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poReylr2aUo Professor Jocelyn Simonson talks about her book, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Beginning with a close look at the ideological meaning behind calling the prosecution, "The...
Professor Robin Bernstein discusses her book, Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison For Profit. Auburn Prison in Upstate New York was designed to be a factory prison, incorporating the area's major industry into its walls. Through harsh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfGQQTVQfw Professor Stephen Kenny discusses his article, “A Dictate of Both Interest and Mercy”: Slave Hospitals in the Antebellum South.” Beginning on the shores of West Africa, White doctors began to systematize racialized medicine...
Antonia Hylton discusses her book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Ms. Hylton's extensive research into Crownsville Hospital in Maryland, a segregated asylum that was both hospital and prison, serves as physical example of racist systems and black...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FCuhSJvlbA Kidada E. Williams discusses her book, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. Professor Williams begins by describing how she elevated and amplified the voices of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHPrua18Yy8 Journalist Laura Meckler of the Washington Post discusses her book, Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. Beginning with a historical overview of the Cleveland suburb and its uncanny ability to propel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fEc7qjEXk Professor Andrew McKevitt talks about his book, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America." America's gun culture was not an inevitable outcome of the Second Amendment and Professor McKevitt...