People's History Podcast

By Jacobin

Society & Culture History

What's People's History Podcast about?

A documentary series about class struggle and movement history. Each season covers one story told from the viewpoint of working-class people.

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People's History Podcast episodes:

02.27.2023
"We Will Remember" Trailer
On February 27, 1973, a group of Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement began occupying the village of Wounded Knee.
02.13.2020
6. False Hope
Columbia Point tenants face new management and a private police force.
01.18.2020
5. Carson Beach
In the turmoil of busing, Betty Ann Jones advocates armed defense while Betty Washington and Dorothy Haskins lead a wade-in to protest segregation.
01.07.2020
4. Free Breakfast
Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point.
12.03.2019
3. Rent Strike
Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority.
11.26.2019
2. Grove Hall
During a period of urban rebellion, welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed.
11.19.2019
1. Placement
Mothers at Columbia Point, a new public housing project in Boston, organize to try and close the city dump.
11.14.2019
"The Point" Trailer
A preview of "The Point."
07.08.2019
Teaser
A People's History comes this Fall.