Professor Waite discusses his book, West of Slavery: the Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. He explains his thesis that the Southern Slave States had ambitions and plans to extend slavery across the West. Prof.
Professor Resendez discusses his book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.
Stephanie R. Logan discusses the history of public school vouchers and the rise of charter schools in the United States. The discussion begins in 1954 and continues through the 21st Century by looking at her 2018 article, “A Historical and Political Look at the Modern School Choice Movement.”
Professor Nakia Parker discusses her article, “Regarded as an Appendage of His Family”: Slavery, Family, and the Law in Indian Territory.” Chattel slavery spread into the Chickasaw Nation, in part, due to the “Civilization Program.” How the Chickasaw legalized ownership and kinship is the focus of our discussion.
John Kyle Day, Professor of History at University of Arkansas at Monticello, discusses his book, The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation.
Professor Derek W. Black discusses his new book, Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy.
Professor Banks discusses her book, Black Culture Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America.
Professor Alexandra Natapoff discusses her book Punishment without Crime and how America’s misdemeanor justice system targets the innocent, taxes the poor, and generates revenue for the public and private sector.
Professor Foner discusses his book “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.” By looking at the history of debate and aftermath of each Post-War Amendments, Prof. Foner examines how each sought to permanently end American Slavery.
Dr. Ronnie A. Dunn recently assumed the role as the inaugural executive director of The Diversity Institute at Cleveland State University, where he has been an associate professor of Urban Studies since 2004.
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.