The books, documentaries, podcasts, and articles below are all recommended by the Missouri Council for History Education. While none of these resources have been created by MOCHE, we believe that they will have a powerful impact on teachers of hard history. With only a few exceptions, these lists will focus on materials published within the previous five years, as resources that existed prior to that time are more widely known as canon. This page will be updated as new materials are recommended. We are planning to offer more resources on hard history education in world history soon.

Books

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson (2020)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (2017)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (2016)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2015)
Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians by Susan Sleeper-Smith, et al (2015)
Latino Americans: The 500-Year History that Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez (2013)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (1993)

Articles

Accounting for Conquest: The Price of the Louisiana Purchase of Indian Country by Robert Lee, JAH 2017

Documentaries

13th Netflix (2018)

Podcasts

Teaching Hard History (Southern Poverty Law Center)
New Books in African American Studies (Marshall Poe)