S3 Episode 15: American Truth and Identity – Bound by the Cloak
In this eye-opening episode, we spoke with historian Donald Yacovone to unravel the layers of history taught in American schools. In a candid and thought-provoking conversation, Donald takes us on a journey through time, exposing the untold stories, overlooked perspectives, and hidden chapters that have shaped our nation.
Donald Yacovone is an Associate at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. His ninth book, Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity, just came out in paperback through Vintage Books. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, co-written with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., won the 2014 NAACP Image Award and he received the W.E.B. Du Bois medal, Harvard’s highest honor in African American studies. He earned a Ph.D. at the Claremont Graduate University, helped edit the Black Abolitionist Papers, and has written widely on abolitionism, gender, African Americans and the Civil War, and American cultural history.
Show Notes:
Articles:
There Is a Reason Ron DeSantis Wants History Told a Certain Way (2023)
You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught (2023)
Author Discusses the Legacy of White Supremacy in Education (2023)
What Reading 220 History Textbooks Taught One Scholar About Racism in America (2022)
Textbook Racism (2022)
The Long and Gruesome History of the Battle Over American Textbooks (2022)
How educational standards helped establish white supremacy (2022)
How textbooks taught white supremacy (2020)
Bound by the Cloak 