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Teaching Hard History

Wrap up: Questions from the Classroom – w/ Bethany Jay

Teaching Hard History

Learning for Justice

History, Courses, Education

4.2588 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Historian Bethany Jay returns – answering questions from educators across the country. Host Hasan Kwame Jeffries and the co-editor of Understanding and Teaching American Slavery confront teacher anxieties and counter misconceptions in our season finale. 

Visit the show notes for this episode to find a complete transcript and a list of resources to help you teach the ideas explored by our guests.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So are you ready?

0:01.6

I'm ready. Let's go.

0:03.2

All right. Let's do this.

0:11.4

This is teaching hard history, American slavery.

0:15.2

A special series from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

0:21.1

This podcast provides a detailed look at how to teach important aspects of the history

0:26.5

of American slavery.

0:28.8

And this is the final episode of our first season.

0:32.6

I'm your host, Hassan Kwame Jeffries.

0:36.0

And today, I'm joined by Bethany Jay. She and Cynthia

0:40.3

Lynn Learley co-edited the anthology Understanding and Teaching American Slavery. Throughout this series,

0:47.9

we have featured scholars from that collection, and we invited Bethany back to help us wrap

0:53.6

things up.

0:55.0

We're going to spend most of this episode answering questions we've received from educators around the country.

1:02.1

I'll see you on the other side. Enjoy.

1:09.0

I'm very excited to welcome Bethany Jay back to the podcast.

1:14.3

Bethany Jay, what's going on?

1:15.8

How are you?

1:16.6

I'm doing well.

1:17.5

I'm excited to be here talking with you about this stuff.

1:19.8

We have wrapped up this season.

1:21.6

We're coming to the end, and there's really no better way to end this first season of the podcast

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