Professor Ellis discusses his essay Polley V. Ratcliff: A New Way To Address an Original Sin? on a fascinating court case, recently resolved, involving kidnapping, slavery, and freedom which might serve as a roadmap for a type of Truth and Reconciliation style reparation.
Prof. Reinert discusses his article “Reconceptualizing the Eighth Amendment: Slaves, Prisoners, and ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Punishment.”
In this interview, Professor Sinha discusses the history of the Reparation Movement and its successes and failures.
In this interview, Professor Craemer looks at past reparations for slaveowners in the United States and Great Britain as successful examples of multi-generational payments. We go into the math of how Black reparations might be calculated, as well.
REPARATIONS: The Complicated Debate Context, News, and History No Pensions for Ex-Slaves: How Federal Agencies Suppressed Movement To Aid...
Dr. Bell discusses his article “The Unintended Consequences of Promising Black Americans Reparations” in which we talk about Black American enslavers, the difficulty of assigning reparation responsibility, and just how to frame the questions surrounding potential slavery reparations.
In this interview we discuss Prof. Conklin’s paper An Uphill Battle for Reparationists: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Slavery Reparations Rhetoric.
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, from The New York Times, which "aims to reframe the country's...
David Waldstreicher teaches history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification and Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution. Most recently he has edited the Diaries of John Quincy Adams for the Library of America, and is finishing a new biography, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley.
Books The unapologetic guide to Black mental health : navigate an unequal system, learn tools for emotional wellness, and get the help you...
Rana Hogarth is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in History, with a concentration in History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University; an M.H.S. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research highlights how the professionalization of medicine and the production of scientific knowledge in the Americas was bound up with the making of race.
Local History Librarian Jessica Robinson has hosted two incredible programs in the last several months dealing with Cleveland Heights-University...