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Aural History Productions
The Radio Archive ~ January - June, 2002
Segment 2: "Donald
Weinstein: The Captain's Concubine."
June
27, 2002
Segment 1: "Irish Famine."
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Sean Farrell of the College of St. Rose interviews James S. Donnelly, Jr. about how historians have struggled to come to terms with the Irish Famine, 1845-51. Donnelly, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a former president of the American Conference of Irish Studies and author of The Great Irish Potato Famine (2001), Irish Agrarian Rebellion (1999), and The Land and People of Nineteenth-Century Cork (1975). Produced by Jane Ladouceur of Talking History/University at Albany.
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Eileen Dugan interviews Donald Weinstein about his book The Captain�s
Concubine: Love, Honor and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany. Weinstein
is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Arizona.
Segment 2: "A
History of Contraceptives in America"
June
20, 2002
Segment 1: "The Trumpet Talks: Louis Armstrong's Early Years."
[AUDIO REMOVED, by request of the producer].
From Donnie L. Betts/No Credits Production and Destination Freedom:
Black Radio Days, this dramatization of the early years of Louis Armstrong
is part of a series that explores the magic of radio from a different
era with a focus on famous African-Americans. For further information
on Destination Freedom: Black Radio Days go to: www.blackradiodays.com.
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Media
In this interview Andrea Tone, author of Devices and Desires: A History
of Contraceptives in America looks at how the birth control business
evolved from the black market of the 19th century to the mass market of
today. Andrea Tone is a professor of history at Georgia Tech University.
Segment 2: "A
History of the Screw & Screwdriver."
June
13, 2002
Segment 1: "Joan Jacobs Brumberg - Part II."
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In part 2 of his interview with Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Barry Vogel continues
the discussion with Brumberg, author of The Body Project: An Intimate
History of American Girls. (See May 30, 2002 program for Part 1).
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Media
The screw and screwdriver might be characterized as one of the most basic
tools and perhaps one of the most significant inventions in the past 1,000
years, according to Witold Rybczynski. He is a professor at the University
of Pennsylvania's Department of Architecture and author of One Good
Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and Screw. Produced by
the Organization of American Historians.
Segment 2: "William
Ferris: Voices of the South"
June
6, 2002
Segment 1: "Trafficking in Women."
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Media
From the Organization of American Historians, Martina Vandenberg, a researcher
for the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch talks about the
long history of trafficking in women and how widespread it is around the
world.
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Historically, the South has been the most artistically rich region of
the country. This has much to do with the distinctive voices of its artists.
In this segment from Dialogue, host George Liston Seay talks with
William Ferris, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities,
about how creators like Eudora Welty, B.B. King and Alex Haley represent
the artistic traditions and contributions of the American South.
Segment 2: "A
History of Citizenship"
May
30, 2002
Segment 1: "Joan Jacobs Brumberg - Part I."
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In part 1 of this interview, Barry Vogel, producer of Radio Curious,
talks with Joan Jacobs Brumberg about the impact of consumer culture on
adolescent girls. Brumberg is the author of The Body Project: An Intimate
History of American Girls.
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Media
Citizenship is a right guaranteed by those who have fought and died in
war and, some would argue, a right taken for granted. Michael Schudson,
author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life, says
while Americans may practice citizenship differently than they used to,
it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Schudson is a professor of communication
and sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Segment 2: "Fran
Grace: Carrie Nation"
May
23, 2002
Segment 1: "Joshua Rubenstein: Ilya Ehrenburg."
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Ilya Ehrenburg's unique genius helped define intellectual commitment in
the 20th century. He was devoted to Russia, intellectual freedom and Jewish
survival. Joshua Rubenstein, author of Tangled Loyalties: The Life
and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg, explains to Dialogue host George Liston
Seay the twists and turns in Ehrenburg's remarkable life.
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An interview with biographer Fran Grace about the woman who became known
as the hatchet wielding saloon buster. Grace is the author of Carrie
A. Nation: Retelling the Life.
Segment 2: "Fred
Thompson and Coney Island"
May
16, 2002
Segment 1: "The Rime of the Ancient Dodger."
[AUDIO REMOVED, by request of the producer].
From Destination Freedom:
Black Radio Days, and producer Donniel l. Betts, "The Rime of
the Ancient Dodger" is a radio drama that chronicles the integration of
Major League Baseball in 1947 by Jackie Robinson.
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Media
Amusement parks are as popular today as they were years ago when adults
flocked to Coney Island for thrills and adventure. Woody Register, author
of The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American
Amusements looks at one of the creators of mass entertainment at the
turn-of-the century at Coney Island. Register is a professor of American
Studies at Sewanee, The University of the South.
Segment 2: "
E. Fuller Torrey: The Invisible Plague of Mental Illness"
May
9, 2002
Segment 1: "Reaganomics on the Hoof: The Arabian Horse Industry
in the 1980s."
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Media
MP3.
Time: 20:20.
"Reaganomics on the Hoof explores how something as remote and impersonal
as changes in tax laws can have far reaching, and completely unforeseen,
effects on obscure corners of the American cultural landscape. In the
early 1980s Arabian horse breeding operations became glamorous tax shelters,
and because they only qualified as tax shelters if the animals were constantly
reproducing, the numbers of Arabian horses in the country skyrocketed;
prices for top horses reached the millions. When the tax law changed in
1986 the industry collapsed. Horses worth tens of thousands of dollars
a when they could be written off were, overnight, became walking dog food.
The rich got out of the horse industry, the horse people could no longer
make a living, and thousands of horses were sold by the pound. Now, more
than 15 years later, the industry is just starting to show signs of recovery.
Produced by Lizzie Redkey for Talking History (University at Albany).
Real Media
For 250 years, Westerners have believed that the rate of insanity was
stable. New evidence shows that rate has drastically increased since 1750.
From Dialogue, George Liston Seay talks with clinical and research
psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, director of the Stanley Research Programs
and co-author with Judy Miller of Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental
Illness from 1750 - Present.
Segment 2: "Lisa
Norling: Wives of Whalefishermen"
May
2, 2002
Segment 1: "Joshua Freeman: Mayday 2002.
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Media
Joshua B. Freeman, the author of Working Class New York: Life And Labor
Since World War II, delivered this talk at the Mayday celebration
at the University at Albany on May 1, 2002. Freeman is Professor of History
and director of the Labor Studies program at Queens College, and a faculty
member of the CUNY Graduate Center history program. (audio to be added.)
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From the OAH and Creighton University, an interview with Lisa Norling,
author of Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and Whalefishery,
1720-1870. Norling, professor of history at the University of Minnesota,
talks about the lives of sea-wives.
April
25, 2002
Segment 1: "Roderick Nash and American Wilderness."
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Media.Time: 17:45.
What began as a dissertation more than 40 years ago became one of the
most influential history books of our time. Fred Neilsen talks with Roderick
Nash about his book Wilderness and the American Mind.
Segment 2: New
York Works ~ "The Seltzer Man" In 1919 Walter Backerman's
grandfather delivered seltzer to his customer's on New York's Lower East
side by horse and wagon. Then there were hundreds of seltzer men in the
city; today Walter is one of the last. From contributing producer Joe
Richman's series New York Works: Audio Portraits of a Vanishing City,
here is Walter's story.
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Media.
MP3.
Time: 8:03.
April
18, 2002Segment 1: "The History Behind the Journalism of Latin Amercia."
Real
Media. From guerilla wars to economic crises, events in Latin America have long histories; headline stories do not exist in a vacuum. Alma Guillermoprieto, author of Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America talks with Dialogue's George Liston Seay about the stories behind the stories we read in the newspaper. Time: 28:18.
Segment 2: "The
Life and Times of the Historical Dracula"
Real
Media.
Was Dracula purely a fictional character or is there some truth to the
myths that abound? In an interview with Kurt Treptow we look at the life
of Vlad the Impaler. Treptow is the author of Vlad III Dracula:
The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula and director of the
Center for Romanian Studies in Iasi, Romania.
April
11, 2002
Segment 1: "Marian Anderson: The Choir Girl of Philadelphia."
[AUDIO REMOVED, by request of the producer].
From Donnie L. Betts/No Credits Production and Destination Freedom:
Black Radio Days, this piece is part of a series devoted to re-presenting
Richard Durham's classic 1940s and 1950s radio series focusing on African
American history and culture. For further information on Destination
Freedom: Black Radio Days, go to www.blackradiodays.com.[Audio
to be added]
Segment 2: "A History
of American Consumer Debt."
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According to our Lendol Calder, debt is nothing new to Americans. Calder,
professor of history at Augustana College and the author of Financing
the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit, explains
the long-standing willingness of Americans to get ahead by getting into
debt.
April
4, 2002
Segment 1: "Destination Freedom: Denmark Vesey."
[AUDIO REMOVED, by request of the producer].
From Donnie L. Betts/No Credits Production and Destination Freedom:
Black Radio Days, this piece is part of a series devoted to re-presenting
Richard Durham's classic 1940s and 1950s radio series focusing on African
American history and culture. This piece tells the story of the principal
organizer of a failed slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in
1822. For further information on Destination Freedom: Black Radio Days,
go to www.blackradiodays.com.[Audio
to be added]
Segment 2: "Jefferson
Davis"
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Media
In Part 3 of the Civil War series from Creighton University, William J.
Cooper Jr., looks at the life of Jefferson Davis. Cooper is Boyd Professor
of History at Louisiana State University. His book on Jefferson Davis, Jefferson
Davis, American, received the 2001 Los Angeles Times' Book Award for
best biography. [Audio to be added.]
Segment 2: "Jean Edward
Smith: Ulysses S. Grant"
March
28, 2002
Segment 1: "The Jefferson County Gospel Quartet."
A documentary on the gospel music
tradition born in the steel mills and coal mines of Jefferson County, Alabama
during the first half of the 20th century. Produced by David Isay in 1992.
Civil War: Part II A look at the
life of Ulysses S. Grant, a national hero and two-term president, with biographer
Jean Edward Smith. Smith is a professor of political science at Marshall
University and author of Grant, recognized by the New York Times
as one of the most distinguished books of 2001. [Audio to be added.]
Segment 2: "Louis Masur:
1831"
March
21, 2002
Segment 1: "Matilda Joslyn Gage."
Radio Curious producer Barry Vogel
continues his Chautauqua style interviews with Matilda Joslyn Gage in the
person of Sally Roesch Wagner. Time: 30:22.
Part One of a four-part series
on the Civil War from Creighton University. Historian Louis Masur looks
at the year 1831 and why he considers it pivotal in relationship to the
Civil War. Masur is a professor of history at the City College of New York
and author of 1831: Year of Eclipse. Time: 21:47.
Segment 2: "Uncle Tom's
Cabin"
March
14, 2002
Segment 1: "The Idea of India."
Dialogue host George Liston Seay
discusses the subtleties and the little known significance of the contradictions
of modernity and democracy in India, the most populous democracey in the
world, with Sunil Khilnani, author of The Idea of India. Time: 28:18.
March, 2002 marks the 150th anniversary
of Uncle Tom's Cabin. From Creighton University, this segment features
a discussion with historian Joan Hedrick about the book and its author.
Hedrick is a professor of history at Trinity College and author of the Pulitzer
Prize winning biography Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Time: 20:52.
Segment 2: "Virginia Militia
Men: Reenactors"
March
7, 2002
Segment 1: "Salih Booker: The Unknown History of US/African Relations."
For much of the last half century,
the United States has ranked as one of the great international powers. In
this interview from Creighton University, Salih Booker, director of Africa
Action, talks about the little-known history of relations between the United
States and Africa. Time: 22:39.
Radio Curious producer Barry Vogel
brings us the stories of Virginia Militia men, as told by a group of modern
day re-enactors. Time: 29:14.
Segment 2: "The History
of Handwriting"
February
28, 2002
Segment 1: "The Rebellion Within."
This half-hour documentary was
produced by Claude Marks of The Freedom Archives/Real Dragon Productions
From Creighton University, Dr.
Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the world of handwriting and its instruction
in the U.S. Plakins is Associate Professor of history at the State University
of New York at Buffalo and author of Handwriting in America: A Cultural
History. Time: 16:38.
Segment 2: "Frederick Douglas
& Elizabeth Cady Stanton"February
21, 2002
Segment 1: "Billie Holiday-Strange Fruit."
In this interview from Creighton
University David Margolick discusses the impact of "Strange Fruit," a song
about lynching in the South made famous by singer Billie Holiday. Margolick
is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine and author of Strange
Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society and an Early Cry for Civil Rights.
Time: 20:23.
In another piece from the Chautauqua
series by Radio Curious producer Barry Vogel, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Frederick Douglas engage in a lively discussion. Time: 29:49.
February
14, 2002
Segment 1: "The Presidential Campaign of 1948."
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Media
MP3.
Time: 28:35.
Talking History contributing producer Lester Graham brings us
this exploration of the 1948 presidential campain.
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Real
Media 56 kbps. Time: 17:03.The Westminster Dog Show has a long and colorful history as this interview from Creighton University with William Stiffel explores. Stiffel is the Westminster Show historian and author of The Dog Show: 125 Years of Westminster.
Segment 2: "Alison Clarke: Tupperware" February
7, 2002
Segment 1: "Julius Robert Oppenheimer."
Dialogue host George
Liston Seay discuss the complicated life and career of J. Robert Oppenheimer,
both the father and opponent of the the atomic bomb with Kai Bird, author of what
will be the first definitive biography of Oppenheimer. [Audio to be Added.]
A look at this cultural symbol
of the American way of life with Alison Clarke, author of Tupperware: The Promise
of Plastic in 1950s America. Source: Creighton University.
Segment
2: "Arthur Neal: National Trauma and Collective Memory." January
31, 2002
Segment 1: "Radio Nation: Studs Terkel."
Over the last four decades Studs
Terkel has become this nations's most well known oral historian, conducting thousands
of interviews on his daily Chicago radio program. Here, from the Radio Nation
archives, Marc Cooper interviews Terkel and talks about Terkel's book, The
Spectator. Time: 27:40.
Arthur Neal talks about national
trauma and its impact on collective memory and the age group most likely to be
affected by the terrorist attacks of 9-11. Neal is the author of National Trauma
and Collective Memory: Major Events in the American Century. Time: 16:38.
Segment
2: "Conrad's Garage" Segment
3: "The Swastika: A Symbol Beyond Redemption?" January
24, 2001
Segment 1: "David Nasaw: William Randolph Hearst."
From the Radio Nation
archives, Marc Cooper talks with City University of New York historian David Nasaw
about the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst. Nasaw is author of the Hearst
biography, The Chief. Time: 16:56.
In this piece recounting a bit
early radio history, Harry Mills recalls his early fascination with Ham radio
and his discovery of the early, experimental radio transmissions from Frank Conrad's
garage in 1919. Produced by Joe Richman. Time: 11:46.
From Creighton University, Steven
Heller talks about what has become one of the most universally hated symbols,
the swastika, and what it represented before it became forever indentified with
the Nazis in Germany. Heller is the senior art director at the New York Times
and chairman of the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts. The author
of numerous books, his most recent work is The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption.
Time:17:04.
Segment
2: "The Memphis Sanitation Strike" Segment 3:
"Clayborne Carson The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr." January
17, 2001
Segment 1: "Maria Stewart."
In this piece from the Chautauqua
series by producer Barry Vogel, he interviews Maria Stewart as portrayed by Sandra
Kamasukuri. Publicly active in the 1820s and 30s, Stewart, an intensely religious
free black woman, residing in Boston is believed to be the first women to lecture
publicly on political matters and the first black woman to speak out for women's
righs and against slavery. Time: 29:41.
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi
Rosenberg for Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report at WBAI,
NY, this piece includes an interview with a sanitation worker from Memphis and
an excerpt from a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the time of that strike.
Time: 9:52.
Creighton University's Dennis
Mihelich interviews Stanford University history professor Clayborne Carson, director
of the Martin Luther King Project and editor of The Autobiography of Martin
Luther King, Jr. Originally broadcast in January, 2000, this piece reviews
King's accomplishment and his place in the modern Civil Rights movement. Time:
17:20.
Segment 2: "The Greatest Generation?
Part IV: The Baby Boomers"
January
10, 2002
Segment 1: "Horace Greeley."
Producer Barry Vogel talks with
newspaperman Horace Greeley as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar David Fenimore
in a Chautauqua style "interview" that took place in 1996. Time: 28:35.
In the final segment of the
four-part series on Greatest Generations from Creighton University David Farber
talks about the Baby Boom generation. Farber is a professor of history at the
University of New Mexico and author of The Age of Great Dreams. Time: 18:38.
Segment 2: "Ellis Island" January
3, 2002
Segment 1: "The Greatest Generation? Part III: The Depression."
In part 3 of the four-part series
on Greatest Generations, from Creighton University, David Kennedy discusses the
Depression era and WWII generation. Kennedy is the author of Freedom From Fear:
The American People in Depression, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Time: 17:36.
From the Radio Curious
Archives, producer Barry Vogel talks with Andrew Weiss, an Ellis Island tour guide
and Columbia University doctoral student at the time of this 1992 interview. They
note the many immigrants that arrived in this country through its portals, considering
both their mythic and real experiences. Time: 29:38.
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