Professor Robin Bernstein discusses her book, Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison For Profit. Auburn Prison in...
Auburn Prison and the Murder that Shocked America with Robin Bernstein
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Slave Hospitals with Stephen Kenny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfGQQTVQfw Professor Stephen Kenny discusses his article, “A Dictate of Both Interest and Mercy”: Slave Hospitals...
Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum with Antonia Hylton
Antonia Hylton discusses her book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Ms. Hylton's extensive research into Crownsville Hospital in...
Surviving Reconstruction with Kidada E. Williams
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...
Shaker Heights’ History of Integration with Laura Meckler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHPrua18Yy8 Journalist Laura Meckler of the Washington Post discusses her book, Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the...
Gun Rights as Consumerism with Andrew McKevitt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_fEc7qjEXk Professor Andrew McKevitt talks about his book, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in...
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI’s White Christian Nationalism with Lerone Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlUV7Sujxo Lerone Martin discusses his new book, "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the...
Colonial Slavery and Disability with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YeN-V_-xk Professor Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy discusses her book, "Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery...
Reproductive Injustice: Black Motherhood and Premature Birth with Prof. Dána-Ain Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osXXdJ8oJ1k Prof. Dána-Ain Davis, Queens College, convincingly argues that longstanding poor birth outcomes for...
Slavery and Surrogacy with Alys Weinbaum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvg6kZ12vpk Alys Weinbaum, professor of English at the University of Washington, discusses her book, The Afterlife...
Banned Books and Gay Erasure with Caitlin O’Loughlin
https://youtu.be/8XMi2-bn8b4 For Banned Books week, join Caitlin O’Loughlin as she discusses her article, “It’s Just Filth: Banned Books and the...
Police Reform and Carceral Logic with Christy Lopez
Christy Lopez draws on her work as a Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice to talk about Pattern or Practice Investigations with in police departments