Dean Dexter Voisin discusses his book “America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago.” History and context play a huge role […]
Violence, Reconstruction, and Redemption with Carole Emberton
Carole Emberton, Associate Professor of History at University at Buffalo, discusses her book Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South After the Civil War. Contrasting Freedmen and Ex-Enslavers, […]
Christian Slavery with Katharine Gerbner
Professor Katharine Gerbner discusses her book Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World shows how debates between slave-owners, black Christians, and missionaries transformed […]
Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools with Christopher Willoughby
Christopher Willoughby, a Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and Health at Pitzer College, talks about his book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and […]
The Water We Swim In with Dr. Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo
This talk will make the case that systemic forms of oppression are maintained and reinforced through subtle patterns of thought and behavior, and present some […]
Race and Jefferson’s Notes with Robert Pierce Forbes
Robert Pierce Forbes discusses his introduction, scholarship, and editorship of Thomas Jefferson’s seminal work, “Notes on the State of Virgina.” Prof. Forbes locates the origin […]
Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer
Unpacking Our History Lecture Series: Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer Professor Thomas Craemer grew up in post-World War II Germany. One day, he […]
Microaggressions with Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo
Dr. Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo discusses her article, “How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States.” She defines what microaggressions are and how they […]
Irish Identity in America with Diane Negra
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 […]
CLEVELAND’S PROMISE with reporters Cameron Fields and Hannah Drown
For this innovative series, Cleveland Metropolitan School District gave two reporters unprecedented access to a classroom at Almira Elementary School to show readers the enormous […]