The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

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The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox

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Reconstruction: A Concise History

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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"

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The Know Nothing Party: The History and Legacy of America’s Most Notorious Nativist Political Party

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Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

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Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy

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The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction

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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

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Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus)

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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

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Freedom on Trial: The First Post-Civil War Battle Over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression

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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero

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Washington: The Making of the American Capital

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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement

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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America

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Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction

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Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies

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The Shattering: America in the 1960s

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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The Overstory

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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The Secret History of the World

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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The Story of Art Without Men

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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The Book of Five Rings

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Lecture 25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877": This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction. Professor Blight begins with an account the Colfax Massacre. Colfax, Louisiana was the sight of the largest mass murder in U.S. history, when a white mob killed dozens of African Americans in the April of 1873. Two Supreme Court decisions would do in the judicial realm what the Colfax Massacre had done in the political. On the same day as the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court offered a narrow reading of the 14th Amendment in the Slaughterhouse cases, signaling a judicial retreat from the radicalism of the early Reconstruction years. The Cruikshank case, two years later, would overturn the convictions of the only three men sentenced for their involvement in Colfax, and marked another step away from reconstruction. Professor Blight concludes with the Panic of 1873 and the seemi

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75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government

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Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor: Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congressional Republicans radically altered the direction of Reconstruction. The Act invalidated the reconstituted Southern legislatures, establishing five military districts in the South and insisting upon black suffrage as a condition to readmission. The eventful year 1868 saw the impeachment of one president (Andrew Johnson) and the election of another (Ulysses S. Grant). Meanwhile, southern African Americans struggle to reap the promises of freedom in the face of economic disempowerment and a committed campaign of white supremacist violence. Transcript Lecture Page

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Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash: Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kate Masur notes how—in the face of evolving, post-slavery white supremacy—Black people claimed...

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297 Claudio Saunt, Indian Removal Act of 1830: The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the Caribbean, wanting land for farms and settlement so they found ways to acquire lands from indigenous peoples by...

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Bacon’s Rebellion, Part 1

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76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan

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Four Paperclippers

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The Other Slavery – w/ Andrés Reséndez: A hundred years before the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, Europeans introduced the commercial practice of enslavement in “The New World.” And for the next 400 years, millions of Indigenous people throughout the Americas...

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‘White Space, Black Hood’ with Sheryll Cashin: Residential segregation and unequal allocation of resources continues to play a profound role in areas of concentrated poverty, and conversely, high opportunity. Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin has spent decades studying housing and how geography is central to American inequality. In “White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality,” Cashin traces the history of anti-Black residential caste, which she says manifests in three forms: boundary maintenance, opportunity hoarding and stereotype-driven surveillance. She joins to unpack her findings and to share strategies for abolishing state-sanctioned practices that further perpetuate inequities.

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Slavery & the Civil War, Part 1 – w/ Dr. Bethany Jay: What really caused the Civil War? In this episode, Salem State University Professor Bethany Jay offers tips for teaching lesser-known history that clarifies this question and cuts through our cloudy national understanding of the Confederacy. With host...

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‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1

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The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race: Historian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a force for political change. And Aisha White urges educators to ask themselves, “What did you learn...

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Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

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In the Footsteps of Others: Process Drama – w/ Lindsay Randall: Students learning about slavery often ask, “Why didn’t enslaved people just run away or revolt?” Lindsay Anne Randall offers a lesson in “Process Drama”—a method teachers can use to answer this question, build empathy and offer...

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In Defense Of Looting Feat. Vicky Osterweil: Vicky Osterweil joins the Beyond Prisons podcast to discuss her new book, “In Defense Of Looting: A Riotous History Of Uncivil Action.” Our wide-ranging conversation includes Vicky’s analysis of the claim that “real” and legitimate protests...

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State-Sponsored Segregation: Richard Rothstein: “Government created segregation.”

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W.E.B. DuBois and The Wounded World w/ Chad L. Williams: In 1917, the most prominent spokesperson for African Americans, W.E.B. DuBois, shocked many when he threw his support behind enthusiastic and patriotic participation in World War I. He thought it was the key to expanding rights and treatment for African Americans. He was only to be later disappointed by the treatment of soldiers in France, the treatment of veterans when they came home, and the revision of history after the war to downplay accomplishments of African American soldiers. He struggled to write a book but could never come to terms with his own role in World War I and what came after. We discuss the life and legacy of the author and activist W.E.B. DuBois with Chad L. Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.

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Edward E. Baptist, “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (Basic Books, 2014): An unflinching examination of the trauma, violence, opportunism, and vision that combined to create the empire for slavery that was the Old South, Ed Baptist‘s new book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic ...

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Pontiac's Rebellion: Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region fight British expansion and rule in their territory

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Red Summer, 1919

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A Comanche Story: Quanah Parker: In this episode, we tell the story of Cynthia Ann Parker's son, the Comanche war chief Quanah Parker. Quanah led Comanche forces until his defeat at Adobe Walls. He then encouraged his people to settle on the reservation, refusing to sacrifice his culture

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Allan Greer, “Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America” (Cambridge UP, 2018): In his Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Allan Greer, Canada Research Chair in Colonial North America at McGill University in Montréal,

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The Principal Contradiction: Applying Dialectical Materialism: Torkil Lauesen joins Breht to discuss his newest book "". In this discussion, Torkil and Breht discuss dialectical materialism, how it is applied in real world situations, and the role that contradiction plays in it all.  In the 1970s and 80s,...

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How the Police Became Untouchable

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Indigenous Enslavement: Part 2 – w/ Christina Snyder: Understanding Indigenous enslavement expands our conception of slavery in what is now the United States. It spread across the entire continent and affected millions of people of different backgrounds. If we define slavery too narrowly, we can fail to...

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America: Dr. Gerald Horne joins Breht and to launch our new series on the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the famous American sociologist, Marxist socialist, esteemed historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist, starting with his major work Black...

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Bacon's Rebellion, Part 2

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#09 PRO-SLAVERY ARGUMENTS: In which we take a look at some pro-slavery arguments to see why Seward's "Higher Law" speech in March 1850 made Southerners so very very angry.