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
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...
Ep7 - The Supreme Court Cases with Lorraine Bannai - 'without any trials, without any charges'
Legal scholar Lorraine Bannai comes on the show to discuss the four cases related to the Concentration Camps and the events the kicked off the Incarceration of Japanese Americans that ended up before the United States Supreme Court.<...
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...
