Interviews
New Books Network | 2023
Majority Report with Sam Seder | Reconstruction Didn’t Fail: It Was Sabotaged w/ Kidada E. Williams, 2023
American History TV | I Saw Death Coming, 2023
Civics 101: Podcast | Reconstruction: The Big Lie, 2023
KERA’s Think | The Trauma of Slavery Didn’t End With Emancipation, 2023
Drafting the Past | Kidada Williams Preaches the Gospel of Audience, 2023
The South End | “History professor releases new book on Reconstruction-era,” 2023
This is Hell! | The Lost Cause against Reconstruction, 2023
CSPAN’s Booknotes+ Episode 104: I Saw Death Coming, 2023
WOMR’s (Provincetown, MA) The Lowdown–Terror & Survival In The War Against Reconstruction, 2023
LSU Press Panel Discussion of the re-release of Allen W. Trelease’s “White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction,” 2023
Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, 2023
KPFA (Berkeley, CA) – Letters and Politics’ Hope & Terror In The Time of Reconstruction, 2023
Stand Up with Pete, 2023
Wake Up With WURD (Philadelphia, PA), Black Reconstruction, 2022
The Klan and Reconstruction with Kidada Williams, Why is This Happening? With Chris Hayes, transcript here, 2022
Finding Freedom, American History Tellers, 2022
Teaching Uncomfortable History And Overlooked Stories Of Black Americans Inside Appalachia, Inside Appalachia podcast, 2022
Reconstructed: The Book of Trayvon, from MSNBC’s Into America podcast, 2022
Reconstructed: Keep the Faith, Baby, from MSNBC’s Into America podcast, 2022
Malcolm X Was From Michigan, So Why Isn’t He Remembered with Abundance? Stateside, Michigan Radio, 2022
The legacy of Reconstruction reverberates. So why aren’t students learning about it?, 1a, WAMU (Washington, DC), 2022
ZEP Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, 2021
“‘Black Skin Was a Death Warrant’: How the East St. Louis Race Massacre was an Omen for Racial Violence to Come,” Bayeté Ross Smith’s “Red Summers” video series for The Guardian, 2021
The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Historically Speaking: Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies, 2021
Learning for Justice’s Teaching Hard History “Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resistance,”, 2021
History Unplugged, “How Ex-Slaves Built New Lives for Themselves – and America – After the Civil War,” 2021
KPFK’s (Southern California) Freedom Now with Gerald Horne, 2021
Democracy Works: The Long Road to Multi-racial Democracy, 2021
New Podcast “Seizing Freedom” Brings Black Americans’ Civil War Stories To Life, WDET’s Detroit Today, 2021
The United States of Anxiety: New Hopes, Old Fears, 2021
Capitol attack conjures American legacy of racial violence ABC News, 2021
“What the Capital Riot Says About America” VPM Media, 2021
“Storming the U.S. Capitol may be new to Americans, but the violence is a familiar theme” Philadelphia Inquirer, 2021
The Aftermath, WRVO (Oswego, NY) Public Media’s ‘The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America,’ 2020
The Cotton Empire and The Second Revolution, Scene on Radio’s The Land That Has Never Been Yet, 2020
As a Weapon, KCRW (Santa Monica, CA)’s Nocturne, 2019
Respectfully Yours, Gainer Atkins, in Reflections on Darkness, BackStory with the American History Guys (Virginia) 2018
NPR On Point, Alabama Museum Opens in Remembrance of Lynching Victims., 2018
WMUK (Kalamazoo, MI)’s West Southwest, No, Not You, 2017
WKAR (East Lansing, MI)’s Current State, No, Not You, 2017
How Should We Deal with Monuments to Deeply Flawed Historical Figures? WDET “Detroit Today”
At WDET on “Detroit Today” discussing Confederate monuments
“Why Tyranny Happened” Slate Academy Podcast on Reconstruction
Q & A for America’s Civil War Museum Foundry Series: Combat, Racial Violence, and Resilience
‘The Difference Ten Miles Makes’ in A More Perfect Union?: The Reconstruction Era, interview on Backstory with the American History Guys podcast, 2017.
Radical Teacher Interview on the #CharlestonSyllabus
Appearances
NEH Summer Institute at UIC, July 2017
Session on Lynching during the Gilded Age & Progressive Era
“When the Men Came,” Lynchburg College, April 2017
“Never Get Over It,” American Civil War Museum, Richmond May 2017
Keisha Blain, Chad Williams, and I at the College of Charleston’s wonderful Avery Research Center
Keisha Blain, Chad Williams, and I at the Charleston Syllabus Symposium at the University of Georgia September 2016
Charleston Syllabus and the 2016 election, College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center, November 2016
CharlestonSyllabus Symposium, University of Georgia, September 2016
Kidada E. Williams 