In this interview, Professor Bronwen Everill discusses her book, Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She covers how Abolitionist Consumers attempted to end slavery with their pocketbooks—staging sugar boycotts and attempting to buy only items that were free from the slave trade.
In this interview, Professor Jonathan Daniel Wells discusses his book, Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War.
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 de-escalating the White mobs.
Steve Luxenberg discusses his nonfiction book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, which was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.
Professor Ibrahim K. Sundiata is Emeritus Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.
Recently, Nikole Hannah-Jones published two new 1619 Project books. The first is an expanded edition of the original magazine entitled, 1619...
Professor Morgan discusses recent journal article “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery.”
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
When COVID-19 hit Ohio in March 2020, Heights Libraries shut down and canceled most of its programs. With the help of the now ubiquitous video...
Professor McLaughlin discusses is article, “The Birth of a Nation: A Study of Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Virginia”
Professor Balmer discusses his book BAD FAITH: RACE AND THE RISE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT. Professor Balmer debunks the myth that the Religious Right formed around opposition to Abortion. Instead, he finds that the movement coalesced around de-segregation of white’s only Religious Universities.
Dr. Nancy Heitzeg discusses her research and book “The School to Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards.”