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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Feb 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We’ve wrapped our first season of UnTextbooked!  Our producers have explored race, food, piracy, gender, medicine and so much more.  
In this episode, UnTextbooked editor Bethany Denton shares five of her favorite moments from the season:
How a Black teenager and his young lawyer changed America's criminal justice system. 
Most Americans eat like kings without realizing it. 
Damnation to the governor and confusion to the colony.
Germany addressed its racist past. Can America do the same?
History fails when it ignores the BIPOC women who made it. 
Would you like to be on UnTextbooked Season 2? https://www.untextbooked.org/apply
Music: Silas Bohen and Coleman Hamilton
Editors: Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman
Released:
Feb 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (73)

UnTextbooked is brought to you by teen change-makers who are looking for answers to big questions. Have you ever wondered if protests really can save lives, why assimilation required Native American kids to attend boarding schools, how Black-led organizations for mutual aid began, how the fear of communism led the United States to plan the overthrows of many leaders in Latin America, or why Brazilian cars run on sugar? Or maybe you've questioned when Asian Americans will stop being seen as "perpetual foreigners," how African heritage influences Black activism, or what resilience looks like for Iranian women?  Your textbooks probably didn't teach you how American Jews were an integral part of the Civil Rights Movement, if history’s greatest leaders were generalists or specialists, how a Black teenager and his young lawyer changed America’s criminal justice system, or if either the US or the USSR won the Cold War. Did you know some of the forgotten BIPOC women of history were spying in aid of the French Resistance, that there's more to being a leader than going down with your battleship, or that there is a long history of gender expression in Native American cultures that goes beyond the male/female binary? Listen in as we interview famous authors and historians who have the answers.  Context is the key to understanding topics like British imperialism, segregation, racism, criminal justice, identifying as non-binary and so much more. These intergenerational conversations bring the full power of history to you with the depth and vividness that most textbooks lack. Real history, to help you find answers to your big questions. UnTextbooked makes history unboring forever.