Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, joins us to talk about how a school founded, in part, to end slavery ultimately preserved it.
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A Former Slave Tells His Story
Author Deborah Plant joins guest host John McCaa about the story of about a former slave’s life in Africa and America.
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White Women Weren’t Bystanders To Slavery
UC-Berkeley history professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers joins us to talk about how wealth drove white women’s participation in the slave market.
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America’s Oldest Problem, Still Unsolved
Ibram X. Kendi, joins us to talk about why racism today is threatening to rip the country apart again.
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Colson Whitehead On ‘The Underground Railroad’
Colson Whitehead joins us to talk about how he wove the nation’s history into the experiences of the main characters in his book,”The Underground Railroad.”
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Colson Whitehead On ‘The Underground Railroad’
Colson Whitehead joins us to talk about how he wove the nation’s history into the experiences of his main characters in his book, “The Underground Railroad.”
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America Was Built On Slavery
Annette Gordon-Reed joins us to talk about how America has struggled since its founding to deal with slavery.
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What We Still Don’t Understand About Slavery
Margaret Biser joins us to talk about the questions she got asked about slavery as the tour guide on a Southern plantation.
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The Value Of Slaves
Daina Ramey Berry joins us to talk about how the value of enslaved people changed over the course of their lives – and about how slaves responded to being appraised.
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The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez joins us to talk about the tens of thousands of Native Americans who also served as slaves dating back to the times of Columbus.
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How Darwinism Changed America
Randall Fuller joins us to talk about how Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” argument for a common ancestry for all creatures was used as a potent argument against slavery.
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Music To March To
This hour, we’ll learn how African American spirituals once sung in the fields evolved into the protest songs that paved the way for equality with Baylor University associate professor Robert F. Darden.
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