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Atlantic Magazine Says “Six Degrees of Song of the South” One of the Best Podcasts of the Year

The Atlantic Magazine recently named Six Degrees of Song of the South one of the best podcasts of the year. The series focuses on the…

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Podcast Interview of Kevin M. Levin Author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth”

Kevin M. Levin, author of “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil Wars Most Persistent Myth,” was recently interviewed on Civil War Talk Radio by host…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Black Officeholders Podcast Podcasts

Mobituary-The Black Congressmen of Reconstruction: Death of Representation

Mobituaries are popular history podcasts from Mo Rocca. This one deals with the death of African American Congressional Representation at the end of Reconstruction. It…

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Posted in Andrew Johnson Impeachment Podcast Podcasts White Supremacy

NPR’s “On the Media” Interviews Historian Brenda Wineapple About the Andrew Johnson Impeachment

National Public Radio’s popular show On the Media focuses on the Andrew Johnson Impeachment this week. It is timely for obvious reasons. Historian Brenda Wineapple…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Movies Podcast Podcasts

How Reconstruction Fantasy “Song of the South” Became “Splash Mountain” by Dropping All the Black People

Here is the last episode of the podcast Six Degrees of Song of the South which is devoted to the Disney Reconstruction fantasy Song of…

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Podcast: Why “Song of the South” Was More of a Success in the 1970s than the 1940s

The podcast Six Degrees of Song of the South looks at why a film that was only a moderate success when it first came out…

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Eric Foner Interviewed by Ed Ayers about Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments for Backstory

The radio show Backstory With the History Guys had a good show with historian Ed Ayers interviewing the godfather of modern Reconstruction studies Eric Foner….

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Podcast: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from “Song of the South” and Mistrels in Hollywood

The third episode of the You Must Remember This podcast series on Disney’s Song of the South is out. This installment focuses on the iconic…

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Podcast: Hattie McDaniel’s Role As Maid in “Song of the South” and “Gone With the Wind”-Episode 2

The second installment of Six Degrees of Song of the South is out. It looks at Hattie McDaniel, the first black actor to win an…

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Videos from CUNY Conference on Abolitionism

In 2014, the CUNY Graduate Center organized an academic conference on the Abolitionist Movement. Some of the top scholars in the field particpated. The first…

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