Podcasts
- Us and Them: The Us & Them podcast will focus on the fault lines that divide Americans. From fights over same-sex marriage or whether humans cause climate change to immigration and whether or not President Obama should identify ISIS militants as Muslim terrorists, we’ll the explore issues, disputes or ideas that divide people into longstanding, entrenched camps. (Description from website)
Readings
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
- Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
- Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
- Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
- Chris Hedges, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
- Sarah Helm, Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
- Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
- Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
- Bill Minutaglio, Dallas 1963
- George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
- Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
- Andrea Sutcliffe, Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
- Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States