Join us the second Thursday of each month, on Zoom, as we continue to discuss how the legacy of slavery and race remain dominant factors in American political, cultural, and social spheres.
The library program centers on an article packet which serves as the discussion text each month. Past discussion topics included the history of slave laws, policing in America, and Critical Race Theory.
All current packets are available on this website and at any of the Heights Libraries. Previous packets are available as .PDFs in the Materials Tab.
Unpacking 1619 Podcast
Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.
YouTube Video Playlist
You can view the entire playlist of 1619 project interviews on our YouTube page.
Upcoming Discussion
Education Part 2:
Reconstruction and Redemption
For the upcoming discussion, we continue our look into American education and race. This packet includes “How Reconstruction Created American Public Education” by Adam Harris from the Atlantic, and “Race, Reconstruction, and Redemption: The Fate of Emancipation and Education, 1861-1876” Chapter 6 from Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876 by Ronald E. Butchart, and “The Steep Edge of a Dark Abyss”: Mohonk, White Social Engineers, and Black Education” By Lasana Kazembe.
Zoom Discussion
Thursday, July 11th, 2024 on Zoom
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Zoom ID: 823 648 5349
Password: 691353
Latest Interviews
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...
Latest Lectures
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Eugenics After Slavery
Eugenicists’ study of mixed race people with Black and white ancestry did not emerge in a vacuum. Slavery not only gave rise to myths about mixed...
Unpacking Our History Lecture: Disease, Slavery, and Politics in New Orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uS1r6zk7s Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms. But it was also the...
What Modern Medicine Gained from Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOM03Nr__n8 Medical science in antebellum America was a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human...
Problems in Police Training with Jessica Katzenstein
Drawing on 16 months of ethnographic research with police officers in Maryland, Jessica Katzenstein explores how physical and virtual scenario trainings shape and inform police “common sense” tactics.
Latest Packet
All Materials
African Identity & Loss of Culture
Criminal Justice, Prisons, and Race
Slavery and Reparations Part 1
Slavery and Reparations Part 2
Slavery and the American Dream
Slavery in America Part 1 (1619 – 1699)
Slavery in America Part 2 (1699 – 1779)
Slavery in America Part 3 (1779-1859)
Slavery in America Part 4 (1859-1939)
Slavery in America Part 5 (1939-2019)
Slavery’s Legacy In Health and Medicine Part 1
Slavery’s Legacy In Health and Medicine Part 2
Slavery’s Legacy In Health and Medicine Part 3
Slavery’s Legacy In Health and Medicine Part 4