Tag Archives: History
War and Remembrance
A discussion of the history of World War II, Nazi Germany, and popular memory of the Holocaust. 719 – War and Remembrance
History Up Close and Personal
Leo Spitzer discusses the Holocaust, cultural memory, and the personal dimensions of the historian’s craft. Fritz Stern reflects on recent German history from personal and professional perspectives. 692 – History Up Close and Personal
Posted in Episodes, Spitzer, Leo, Stern, Fritz R.
Tagged German, History
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Culture in Focus
William Brumfield discusses his work as a photographer and historian of Russian architecture. Alex Harris discusses his new book, Red White Blue and God Bless You, a photodocumentary of the landscapes, people, and culture of northern New Mexico. 653 – … Continue reading
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Tagged History, Religion
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Public Philosophy
Thomas Flynn discusses the life and work of the modern French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault. Richard Rorty discusses philosophy and the politics of the American left. 600 – Public Philosophy
Posted in Episodes, Flynn, Thomas R., Rorty, Richard
Tagged French, History, Philosophy, Politics
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Crosscurrents
In two conversations about creative crosscurrents between Europe and the United States, Rita Dove discusses Durer’s Beauty, her sequence of poems about the German artist Albrecht Durer, and Robert ter Horst discusses the American historian Henry Adams and the Bloomsbury … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, German, History, Poetry
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Politics and Posterity
Franklin Ford and William Leuchtenburg discuss the John M. Olin Seminar in Political History, which they coordinated at the National Humanities Center. Cynthia Herrup and Mark Kishlansky discuss the history and historiography of the English Revolution in the 17th-century. 457 … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Ford, Franklin L., Herrup, Cynthia B., Kishlansky, Mark A., Leuchtenburg, William E.
Tagged History, Humanities, Politics
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From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 4
Clayborne Carson is the author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Harvard University Press) and, with David Garrow, the editor of Eyes on the Prize, America’s Civil Rights Years: A Reader and Guide (Penguin Books). … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, From Protest to Power, History
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Breaking New Ground: (1) Agricultural history; (2) Georg Forster
Joan Thirsk, a historian of English agriculture, discusses her research and writing on alternative agriculture (such as dye plants and oil seeds) in England from the fourteenth century onward. Hugh West discusses his study of Georg Forster, the eighteenth-century social observer, … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Thirsk, Joan, West, Hugh Allen
Tagged Agriculture - England - history, Georg Forster, History, Rapeseed, Woad
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Knowing the Constitution
September 17, 1987, was the bicentennial anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Near that anniversary, how well do Americans know their principal governing document? This edition of Soundings presents replies to that question by scholars Michael … Continue reading
Posted in Appleby, Joyce O., Episodes, Kammen, Michael G.
Tagged History, U.S. Constitution
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