Podcasts: African Americans
Frank Deale: A Brief History of Affirmative Action and CUNY
At the Professional Staff Congress's CUNY and Race Forum, attorney and professor Frank Deale provides historical context for issues surrounding affirmative action and the City University of New York.
Deborah Willis: Is There Anything More to See?
Professor, curator, photographer Deborah Willis discusses the pictorial record and a "new memory of photography."
Mary Niall Mitchell: Is There Anything More to See?
Historian Mary Niall Mitchell uses less known and difficult to understand photographs to discuss the use of photography as propaganda during the Civil War.
Anthony Lee: Is There Anything More to See?
Art historian, curator, and photographer Anthony Lee provocatively examines Civil War era photography by way of one case study.
Martha A. Sandweiss: Is There Anything More to See?
Historian Martha Sandweiss challenges assumptions and uses of Civil War photographs as historical documents.
Stan Deaton: Civil War Myths and Misinformation
Stan Deaton (Georgia Historical Society) discusses the challenges his institution is facing when discussing and commemorating the 150 anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
Teaching With Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
In this three-part video podcast, ASHP/CML's Donna Thompson Ray shares the benefit of her area of expertise with New York City Department of Education teachers in a discussion about the work of artist Jacob Lawrence.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Historian Fritz Umbach and Anthropologist Kojo Dei (John Jay College, CUNY) put the history of the transatlantic slave trade into a long and complex global context.
Free black craftsman, Thomas Day
In the world of antiques, art fairs, and auctions, January marks Americana month. One of the more notable American craftsmen was furniture maker Thomas Day, a free black who lived in North Carolina during the Civil War-era.
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