Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchManuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
Episode 53
As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transa…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
Episode 53
African American males are confronted with formidable barriers in their pursuit of quality education, resulting in stark disparities in academic perf…
1 year, 2 months ago
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 233
In Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2019), the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that w…
1 year, 2 months ago
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
Episode 1760
Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kit W. Myers, "The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States"(U California Press, 2025)
Episode 251
This episode features Dr. Kit W. Myers, associate professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced, …
1 year, 2 months ago
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
Episode 282
Teacher By Teacher traces the journey of the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives.…
1 year, 2 months ago
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
Episode 142
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth. It can hardly be said that scholars have neglected Douglass; indeed, he is on…
1 year, 2 months ago
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1756
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find opportunities to …
1 year, 3 months ago
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1755
Classicism and Other Phobias (Princeton University Press, 2025) shows how the concept of “classicism” lacks the capacity to affirm the aesthetic valu…
1 year, 3 months ago
Asha Jeffers, "Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
Episode 512
Against! is the first book-length study of Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant and second-generation writing in the United States. In it, Asha Jeffe…
1 year, 3 months ago