UnTextbooked | A history podcast for the future

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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.

Episode Date
Bonus Episode: How Does a Chicana Activist Find Her Place in History?
Mar 07, 2024
Encore: History fails when it ignores the BIPOC women who made it
Feb 29, 2024
Encore: How did Black Americans forge a cultural identity?
Feb 22, 2024
What Can Anonymous & Hacker Collectives Teach Us About Internet Activism?
Feb 15, 2024
What’s the Complicated Legacy of Betty Friedan?
Feb 08, 2024
How does Disneyland Reflect the American Dream?
Feb 01, 2024
What Can We Learn From Historic Youth Movements?
Jan 25, 2024
Wait, SYPHILIS Is the Reason Why We Have the Field of Dermatology?
Jan 18, 2024
Encore: How do democracies die?
Jan 12, 2024
What Was the Black Panther Party Fighting For?
Dec 21, 2023
How Does The Legacy of Settler Expansion & Industrialization Destroy Indigenous Livelihood?
Dec 14, 2023
What Do Our Clothes Reveal About History, Economics, and Gender?
Dec 07, 2023
Why is Spoken Word Poetry Not Seen as ‘Real’ Literature? With Dr. Joshua Bennett
Nov 30, 2023
PTSD, Poetry and Brotherhood in World War One
Nov 16, 2023
What IS Venture Capital? Does it really run the tech world?
Nov 09, 2023
The Many Contradictions of Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
Nov 02, 2023
The ‘Stunt Work’ That Launched Women Into Investigative Journalism
Oct 26, 2023
UnTextbooked is back with Season Four!
Oct 19, 2023
Is Freedom of Speech Around the World Backsliding?
Oct 19, 2023
UnTextbooked Out of the Studio: Reimagining a New Vision for Education at the ASU+GSV Summit
Sep 21, 2023
Introducing: History Detective
Apr 06, 2023
Introducing: Getting Smart
Mar 09, 2023
Introducing: Changing Course
Feb 16, 2023
Best of Season 3
Feb 02, 2023
Is the current Supreme Court a threat to justice?
Jan 26, 2023
How do democracies die?
Jan 19, 2023
Did the American Civil War ever truly end?
Jan 12, 2023
How did citizen protests help end the Cold War?
Jan 05, 2023
How does naval domination control who runs the world?
Dec 22, 2022
Was the fall of the USSR inevitable?
Dec 15, 2022
Is the U.S. government spying on its own citizens?
Dec 08, 2022
What does history teach us about the future of technology?
Dec 01, 2022
What was the gay bar and how did it shape gay identity?
Nov 24, 2022
Is mass incarceration doing more harm than good?
Nov 17, 2022
How did guns divide the United States?
Nov 10, 2022
What is religious racism and how has it progressed from past to present?
Nov 03, 2022
Are we telling U.S. Indigenous history wrong?
Oct 27, 2022
Season Three: New Questions, New Answers
Oct 20, 2022
What is causing the global fall of democracy?
Oct 20, 2022
Best of Season 2
Mar 10, 2022
Did anyone win the Cold War?
Dec 07, 2021
Did segregation in America ever really end?
Dec 02, 2021
When will Asian Americans stop being seen as "perpetual foreigners"?
Nov 29, 2021
What does American cuisine tell us about the United States?
Nov 25, 2021
Why do Brazilian cars run on sugar?
Nov 22, 2021
What does resilience look like for Iranian women?
Nov 18, 2021
How did tolerance become an American value?
Nov 15, 2021
Is every presidency doomed to fail?
Nov 11, 2021
How did Black Americans forge a cultural identity?
Nov 08, 2021
Were history’s greatest leaders generalists or specialists?
Nov 04, 2021
Is there an American Empire?
Nov 01, 2021
Does population control work?
Oct 28, 2021
Why were Native American kids required to attend boarding schools?
Oct 25, 2021
Can protests save lives? How ACT UP helped tame the AIDS crisis.
Oct 21, 2021
Can the War on Terror ever truly end?
Oct 18, 2021
Season 2 is coming soon!
Oct 11, 2021
Best of Season 1
Feb 04, 2021
Why did American Jews march for Black equality?
Dec 03, 2020
Why do so many Westerners fear the veil?
Nov 30, 2020
Most Americans eat like kings without realizing it.
Nov 26, 2020
Why do we forget the cruelty of the British Empire?
Nov 23, 2020
How America’s fear of communism paved the way for a Chilean dictator.
Nov 19, 2020
Damnation to the governor and confusion to the colony.
Nov 16, 2020
How much influence does America still have?
Nov 12, 2020
The forgotten mothers of American gynecology.
Nov 09, 2020
When did Americans become so dependent on processed foods?
Nov 06, 2020
A historical argument against the gender binary.
Nov 02, 2020
How a Black teenager and his young lawyer changed America’s criminal justice system.
Oct 29, 2020
The false mythology of good leadership.
Oct 26, 2020
Does America live up to its own ideals?
Oct 19, 2020
History fails when it ignores the BIPOC women who made it.
Oct 19, 2020
Germany addressed its racist past. Can America do the same?
Oct 19, 2020
Introducing UnTextbooked: a history podcast for the future.
Sep 23, 2020