Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast

About Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast

Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.

Publisher

Heights Libraries

Category

education · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Apr 2022

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

119 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Episode 119 – Enemy Feminisms with Sophie Lewis

   Sophie Lewis discusses their book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation. Offering a 200 year tour feminist history to uncover 19th century imperial feminists, Klan feminists, and today’s anti-abortion and TERF feminists. This tour paints a complicated picture of women’s rights advocates that is sometimes messy, racist, and, yes, even sexist. Sophie Lewis […]

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Episode 118 – Bad Vibes at the Supreme Court with Leah Litman

   Leah Litman discusses her book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes. In it, she argues that the Supreme Court is no longer practicing law. Rather, it’s running on vibes. And by “vibes,” Litman means legal-ish claims that repackage the politics of conservative grievance and minority rule. Leah […]

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Episode 117 – National Guard, ICE, and American Cities with Scott R. Anderson

   After months of National Guard and ICE deployment around the U.S., questions remain about what these domestic deployments mean, under what legal authority are they happening and what have the lower Courts said about these issues, Scott R. Anderson details all the different aspects of these questions and more. Anderson outlines the complicated legal ways […]

Who has been a guest on Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lasana Kazembe
• Kate Weisburd
• Kali Gross
• Anne Quaranto

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

152,136

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

19 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

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Quality

57

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

85

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