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
Ep11 with a Young JAs Panel Addenda - War is Stupid
Orli Matlow, Comedian and Podcast host of 'War is Stupid' joins us to reflect on the ways the Incarceration of 125,000+ Japanese Americans during WWII is one of the awful run-on effects the wars make possible.Follow us @HistoryForTheReck...
Ep11 - Incarceration's Legacy with a Panel of Young Japanese Americans - 'You can reclaim your history'
In a first for History for the Reckoning, we have a panel coming on to share their lived experience as Japanese Americans under 30. We discuss how the Concentration Camps of WWII still affect them and their community, generations and decades la...
Ep10 - Intergenerational Trauma with Debra Kawahara - 'The trauma is passed on to the children'
Psychologist and American Psychological Association President Debra Kawahara comes on to explain the concept of intergenerational trauma, particularly as it relates to Japanese WWII Incarceration. What can that kind of thing do to a person, a f...
Ep9 - The Coram Nobis cases with Lorraine Bannai and Peggy Nagae - 'We owed the obligation as a citizen to tell our government that they were wrong'
Legal scholars Lorraine Bannai and Peggy Nagae join us to explain the follow up to the disastrous Supreme Court cases related to Japanese Incarceration, and how a scrap of justice was finally found through an obscure legal procedure known as Co...
Ep8 - The Redress and Reparations Movement with John Tateishi- 'The things that went wrong, and how as a nation we’ve had the courage to make them right'
John Tateishi, author and activist who was integral to the struggle for Redress and Reparations by Japanese Americans after WWII, comes on to tell us the whole history of the movement, that ended in incredible success as the US Government ackno...
