A12:
The Story of Charlottesville
A podcast about the white nationalist attack on Charlottesville — and the history behind it.
Named by The Guardian as “one of our favourite podcasts of 2018”
Voices
Jalane Schmidt, UVA professor and local Black Lives Matter founder
Claudrena Harold, UVA history professor and advisor to the Black Student Alliance
Seth Wispelwey, co-founder of Congregate Cville
John Edwin Mason, UVA history professor and vice-chair of Blue Ribbon Commission on statues
Tim Heaphy, former U.S. attorney and author of the city's independent review
Brennan Gilmore, witness suing Alex Jones for defamation
Joyce Camden, local trauma counselor
Mike Signer, former Charlottesville mayor
Larry Sabato, UVA politics professor
Rabbi Tom Gutherz, senior rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel
Ben Doherty, UVA law librarian and organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Jim Ryan, president of UVA
Risa Goluboff, dean of UVA Law School and chair of the Dean's Working Group on the university's response to August 11 & 12
Louis Nelson, UVA associate provost and architecture history professor
Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning
Mary McCord, visiting professor at Georgetown law and attorney pursuing the militia lawsuits
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Supreme Court correspondent
Nina Silber, Civil War historian at Boston University
Phyllis Leffler, professor emerita of UVA history department
Margo Smith, founder of the Kudzu Project
additional background interviews
Will Richey, owner of Whiskey Jar restaurant
Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin, rabbi educator at Congregation Beth Israel
Elaine Ellis Thomas, former associate rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Jack Ronayne, local student involved in Sacajewea mural
Sources
Commentary/Analysis
Made by History's coverage of Charlottesville
Annette Gordon Reed, "Charlottesville: Why Jefferson Matters"
Wes Gobar, "What it’s like to be a Black student as white supremacists march in your college town"
Citizen Justice Initiative, "The Illusion of Progress: Charlottesville's Roots in White Supremacy"
Alexis Gravely, "At the University of Virginia, Black Students Are Still Recovering From August 11"
German Lopez, "Why the ACLU defends white nationalists’ right to protest — including in Charlottesville"
Sophie Abramowitz, Eva Latterner, and Gillet Rosenblith, "Tools of Displacement"
Nicole Hemmer, "Why this happened in Charlottesville, my hometown"
Nicole Hemmer, "Sounds and Silence in Charlottesville"
Primary Sources
Report from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces (pdf)
Independent Review of August 11-12, 2017 (Heaphy Report)
Prohibiting Private Armies at Public Rallies (pdf)
Local History
Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South
"To seek the Peace of the City" Jewish Life in Charlottesville
Brendan Wolfe, "Unearthing Slavery at the University of Virginia"
That World is Gone:
Race and Displacement in a Southern Town
Ervin L. Jordan, "Charlottesville During the Civil War"
Books
Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
James Robert Saunders and Renae Nadine Shackelford, Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia
Matthew D. Lassiter and Andrew B. Lewis, eds., The Moderates' Dilemma
Carol Anderson, White Rage
Credits
A12 was written and produced by Nicole Hemmer, who also designed the cover art and composed the theme music.
Other music in A12 featured in A12 under a Creative Common license comes from the performers:
Lee Rosevere
Doctor Turtle
Daniel Burch
Jason Shaw
U.S. Army Blues