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Clint Smith is a poet and a staff writer for\xa0The Atlantic.\xa0His most recent book is\xa0How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America\xa0and his latest feature is\xa0\u201cMonuments to the Unthinkable.\u201d\n\u201cI've been to a lot of places that carry a history of death and slaughter and murder. I've been on plantations. I've been in execution chambers. I've sat on electric chairs. I've been on death row. But I have never experienced anything like what I experienced walking through the gas chamber in Dachau. I mean, there's reading books about the Holocaust, and then there's that. And that is something that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life: putting my body where these things happen. Because it completely transforms your understanding of what it was like.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@ClintSmithIII\n\nclintsmithiii.com\n\nSmith on Longform\n\nSmith's\xa0Atlantic\xa0archive\n\n00:00\xa0How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America\xa0(Little Brown \u2022 2021)\n\n01:00\xa0"Monuments to the Unthinkable"\xa0(Atlantic \u2022 Nov 2022)\n\n17:00\xa0Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City\xa0(Matthew Desmond \u2022 Crown \u2022 2017)\n\n33:00\xa0The Hemingses of Monticello\xa0(Annette Gordon-Reed \u2022 W.W. Norton \u2022 2009)\n\n34:00\xa0Counting Descent\xa0(Write Bloody Publishing \u2022 2016)\n\n57:00\xa0The Diary of a Young Girl\xa0(Anne Frank \u2022 1947)\n\n57:00\xa0Number the Stars\xa0(Lois Lowry \u2022 Houghton Mifflin \u2022 1989)\n\n1:07:00\xa0"The Stories Tamir Rice Makes Us Remember"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Dec 2015)\n\n1:08:00\xa0Smith's\xa0New Yorker\xa0archive\n\n\n1:08:00\xa0"Freddy Adu and the Children of the Beautiful Game"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Mar 2017)\n\n1:09:00\xa0Above Ground\xa0(Little Brown \u2022 2023)\n\n1:09:00\xa0Crash Course Black American History\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices