UnTextbooked | A history podcast for the future

A podcast by The History Co:Lab and Pod People

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Kids & Family History

73 Episodes

  1. Bonus Episode: How Does a Chicana Activist Find Her Place in History?

    Published: 3/7/2024

  2. Encore: History fails when it ignores the BIPOC women who made it

    Published: 2/29/2024

  3. Encore: How did Black Americans forge a cultural identity?

    Published: 2/22/2024

  4. What Can Anonymous & Hacker Collectives Teach Us About Internet Activism?

    Published: 2/15/2024

  5. What’s the Complicated Legacy of Betty Friedan?

    Published: 2/8/2024

  6. How does Disneyland Reflect the American Dream?

    Published: 2/1/2024

  7. What Can We Learn From Historic Youth Movements?

    Published: 1/25/2024

  8. Wait, SYPHILIS Is the Reason Why We Have the Field of Dermatology?

    Published: 1/18/2024

  9. Encore: How do democracies die?

    Published: 1/12/2024

  10. What Was the Black Panther Party Fighting For?

    Published: 12/21/2023

  11. How Does The Legacy of Settler Expansion & Industrialization Destroy Indigenous Livelihood?

    Published: 12/14/2023

  12. What Do Our Clothes Reveal About History, Economics, and Gender?

    Published: 12/7/2023

  13. Why is Spoken Word Poetry Not Seen as ‘Real’ Literature? With Dr. Joshua Bennett

    Published: 11/30/2023

  14. PTSD, Poetry and Brotherhood in World War One

    Published: 11/16/2023

  15. What IS Venture Capital? Does it really run the tech world?

    Published: 11/9/2023

  16. The Many Contradictions of Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

    Published: 11/2/2023

  17. The ‘Stunt Work’ That Launched Women Into Investigative Journalism

    Published: 10/26/2023

  18. Is Freedom of Speech Around the World Backsliding?

    Published: 10/19/2023

  19. UnTextbooked is back with Season Four!

    Published: 10/19/2023

  20. UnTextbooked Out of the Studio: Reimagining a New Vision for Education at the ASU+GSV Summit

    Published: 9/21/2023

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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.