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Proving Pregnancy with Felicity Turner
Felicity Turner, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Georgia Southern University, discusses her book Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law,...
Teaching White Supremacy with Donald Yacovone
Donald Yacovone, lifetime associate at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, discusses his book, "Teaching...
Book Learning and Slave Education with Christopher Span
Christopher Span, Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses his work, “Sam’s Cottonfield...
Texas: Race, War, Colonialism with Gerald Horne
Professor Gerald Horne discusses his book, The Counter-revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of American Fascism. Prof....
Abolition’s Legal Failures with Giuliana Perrone
Giuliana Perrone, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, discusses her book, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of...
Black Homicide Victims with Gian Maria Campedelli
Gian Maria Campedelli, research scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy, discusses his research article, “Homicides Involving Black Victims...
White Christian Nationalism and the Church with Jim Wallis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhyXgLH8bno Jim Wallis, the founding Director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and Justice, discusses...
Why You Might End Up In Prison with Justin Brooks
Professor Justin Brooks, director of the LLM Program in U.S. Law in Spanish at the University of San Diego, discusses his book, You Might Go to...
Unpacking Our History Lecture: Grant and the Klan
Join Fergus Bordewich as he discusses his new book, "Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction." Klan War is a bold and...
Police Violence and Pregnant People with Jaquelyn Jahn
Jaquelyn Jahn, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Drexel University, discusses her articles "Neighborhood Proactive Policing and Racial...
Land and Identity in Africa with Kevin C. Dunn
Kevin C. Dunn, the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hobart and William Smith Colleges talks about his book,...