History for the Reckoning
A podcast that dives deep into uncomfortable history; the kinds of stories we need to learn so they’re never repeated.
Each season we'll dig into a history that we've misremembered, tried not to think hard about, or even tried to erase. Through interviews with historians, scholars, artists, and people who lived the history firsthand, we'll learn with the depth each topic deserves.
Season 1: “American Concentration Camps: The Story of WWII Japanese Incarceration”, launches February 19th.
Sponsored by the JACL Mt Olympus Chapter, the Takahashi Family Foundation, and the JA Community Foundation.
History for the Reckoning
Latest Episodes
Ep6 - Behind the Government Curtain with Eric Muller - 'The machine guns were pointed in, not out'
Historian Eric Muller joins us to tell us the nuts and bolts of HOW the Incarceration happened.Follow us @HistoryForTheReckoning on Instagram and Substack to find our show notes (plus behind-the-scenes) and to reach out to us with questi...
Ep5 with Frank Abe Addenda - Frank Emi's Story
Frank Abe told us from a high level about the various ways Japanese Americans resisted the government's unconstitutional acts, and this week we'll zoom in on one story of resistance, that of Frank Emi, courtesy of Densho.Follow us @Histo...
Ep5 - The Resisters with Frank Abe - 'Stand up to unjust authority'
Filmmaker, author and activist Frank Abe tells us the varied ways in which Japanese Americans resisted the US government's unconstitutional acts committed against Japanese Americans during WWII.Follow us @HistoryForTheReckoning on Instag...
Guest Episode - The Incarceration Story by History Daily
This week we take a breather, step back, and let our friends at History Daily describe the Incarceration in its entirety in under twenty minutes. They do an amazing job, and I hope the zoomed out perspective will help us keep in mind the beginn...
Ep4 with Claudia Katayanagi Addenda - A Peruvian-Japanese Story
As Claudia Katayanagi shared in her interview, thousands of Japanese Latinos were plucked from their homes and countries to be shipped to the United States during WWII, where they remained in concentration camps often until several years after ...
