Teaching Hard History
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 aired from 2018 to 2022, begins with the long and brutal legacy of slavery and reaches through the victories of and violent responses to the Civil Rights Movement and Black Americans’ experiences during the Jim Crow era to the issues we face today.
Join us as we relaunch this podcast series, highlighting an episode each week and including a new resource page with key points from the conversation, resources and connections for building learning experiences.
Latest Episode
Resistance Means More Than Rebellion (14.08.2025)
Previous Episodes
- In the Footsteps of Others: Process Drama 31.07.2025
- Doing the Work of Teaching Hard History 22.07.2025
- Slavery and the Northern Economy 10.07.2025
- Slavery and the Civil War, Part 2 26.06.2025
- Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1 19.06.2025
- Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow – w/ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries 26.05.2022
- Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow – w/ Robert T. Chase and Brandon T. Jett 16.05.2022
- Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow – w/ Charles L. Hughes 26.04.2022
- Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues – w/ Charles L. Hughes 12.04.2022
- Black Political Thought – w/ Minkah Makalani 08.04.2022
- Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West – w/ Charles L. Hughes 18.03.2022
- Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice – w/ Deirdre Cooper Owens 17.03.2022
- Music Reconstructed: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters – w/ Charles L. Hughes 23.02.2022
- The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong 17.02.2022
- Changing the Game: Sports in the Jim Crow Era – w/ Derrick E. White and Louis Moore 25.01.2022
- The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet – w/ Jill Watts 14.01.2022
- Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow – w/ Adriane Lentz-Smith 15.12.2021
- Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs – w/ Jelani M. Favors and Tera W. Hunter 04.12.2021
- Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration – w/ David Krugler 11.11.2021
- Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience – w/ Kidada Williams and Kellie Carter Jackson 26.10.2021
