Teaching Hard History

Education Podcasts

From Learning for Justice and host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., Teaching Hard History brings us the crucial history we should have learned through the voices of leading scholars and educators. The series, which includes four seasons that originally...

Episodes

Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow – w/ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries

Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow – w/ Robert T. Chase and Brandon T. Jett

Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow – w/ Charles L. Hughes

Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues – w/ Charles L. Hughes

Black Political Thought – w/ Minkah Makalani

Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West – w/ Charles L. Hughes

Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper Owens

Music Reconstructed: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters – w/ Charles L. Hughes

The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong

Changing the Game: Sports in the Jim Crow Era – w/ Derrick E. White and Louis Moore

The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet – w/ Jill Watts

Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow – w/ Adriane Lentz-Smith

Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs – w/ Jelani M. Favors and Tera W. Hunter

Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration – w/ David Krugler

Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience – w/ Kidada Williams and Kellie Carter Jackson

Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause – w/ Karen Cox

Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash – w/ Kate Masur

The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race – w/ Edward E. Baptist and Aisha White

Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom – w/ Matthew R. Kay

Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today