Podcast Episodes featuring Paul Finkelman

Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court" (Harvard UP, 2018)

New Books Network - August 19, 2019 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
In this episode of the American Society for Legal History’s podcast Talking Legal History Siobhan talks with Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College, about his book Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court(Harvard University Press, 2018). Finkelman is a specialist on the histor...

Slavery in the Supreme Court – w/ Paul Finkelman

Teaching Hard History - May 10, 2018 06:06 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratings
In the United States, justice was never blind. Historian Paul Finkelman goes beyond legal jargon to illustrate how slavery was entangled with the opinions of the Court—and encoded into the Constitution itself.  Visit the show notes for this episode to find a complete transcript and a list of r...

Slavery in the Constitution – w/ Dr. Paul Finkelman

Teaching Hard History - April 26, 2018 19:34 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratings
Constitutional historian Paul Finkelman explains the deeply racist bargains the founding fathers struck to unify the country under one document and discusses what students should know about how slavery defined the United States after the Revolution.  Educators! Get a professional development c...