The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future

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

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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

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Stokely Carmichael: The Life and Legacy of the Civil Rights Activist Who Led the Black Power Movement

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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

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Ida B. the Queen

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The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

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American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

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

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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

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Unbought and Unbossed

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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

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Southern Horrors

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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

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

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An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, Part II - 1963-64

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Spectacle

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Death in a Promised Land

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

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, Part I - 1954-63

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Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962

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

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

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

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

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The Secret History of the World

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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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 Hero

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The Heretic's Handbook

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The Book of Five Rings

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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

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

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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

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

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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries

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On Palestine

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The Story of Art Without Men

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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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Summary: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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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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The Korean War: A History

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Chariots of the Gods

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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

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The First Women to Report Jeffrey Epstein

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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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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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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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One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race by Yaba Blay: Who's black?Who's white?And who cares? One researcher challenges us to re-examine our self-identity.She explores how historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences.Through a series of interviews and ...

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Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom: How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics

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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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American Whitelash: Wesley Lowery on the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America: EPISODE 1565: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Wesley Lowery, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of AMERICAN WHITELASH, about the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America

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Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

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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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Introducing ‘1619,’ a New York Times Audio Series

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Ned Blackhawk on ‘The Rediscovery of America’: In this conversation first recorded for Washington Post Live on April 27, Yale University professor Ned Blackhawk discusses his new book, “The Rediscovery of America: Natives Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” which explores the foundational role Native Americans have played in U.S. history, including in the formulation of our country’s Constitution, and how their presence and contributions are frequently overlooked, or worse, erased.

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How the Word is Passed with Clint Smith: What we call history isn't a fixed thing; it's a narrative, contested and fought over, changing over time. Right now, the United States is in the midst of a massive historical battle over its own narrative, specifically the legacy of slavery and race in America. The backlash to that fight is spilling into public policy as Republican state legislatures push to regulate the way students are taught about the founding of our country. In Clint Smith's new book "How The Word is Passed", Smith studies our understanding of slavery through the stories we tell of it. He travelled to the cemeteries and plantations and prisons home to these stories to see up close how they reckon with - or fail to reckon with - their own relationship to our country's legacy.

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The Essential Kerner Commission Report: In 1968, the Kerner Commission wrote, "white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto." Here's how they reached a conclusion that still rings true today.

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167. The Economic Cost of Racism with Heather McGhee: In this episode, Sharon is joined by economic policy expert and author Heather McGhee.

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140: Heather Cox Richardson

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Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022): An interview with Leslie M. Alexander

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Texas Storm Fallout Continues | Sharon McMahon

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ICYMI - Heather McGhee on "The Sum of Us"

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

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Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)

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Episode 8: Searching for Justice

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Black AF History

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Cruelty: the point: Adam Serwer joins Matt to talk about his new book, the racial politics of Trump and the GOP, and the Reconstruction-era problems we face anew today

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The Shadow Docket

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Roland S. Martin!: Host of Roland Martin Unfiltered, Roland S. Martin joins Zerlina on the show to discuss his new book White Fear: How the Browning of America is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds, out now!

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A Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet: Host Reed Galen is joined by journalist and New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Sharlet. Jeff shares scenes from his travels across the United States which exemplify the convergence of MAGA, religion, militias, and fascism. The aftermath of...

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Fugitive Pedagogy in Black Education: Jarvis Givens, assistant professor at Harvard, defines fugitive pedagogy and its powerful role in Black education.