July 5, 2011 — Lara Putnam, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, follows the history of migration in the Caribbean during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...view
History
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Corporate influence, History
May 3, 2011 — Anothropologist Roger Rouse, an associate teaching professor in the history department at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses the popular Disney film series, “Pirates of the...view
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History, Medicine, Open government
April 7, 2011 — Historian Susan Reverby, the author of “Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy,” discusses her book as well as her recent discovery that the U.S. Public...view
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History, Media
March 29, 2011 — Peter Richardson discusses his book, “A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America.” Richardson’s study follows the birth, life, and...view
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History, Race
March 15, 2011 — Historian Nell Irvin Painter, professor emerita at Princeton University, is the author of “The History of White People.” The book traces the origin of a white racial identity...view
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History, Labor
March 1, 2011 — Recorded as the confrontation over state workers’ rights came to a head in Wisconsin in the winter of 2011, Georgetown University historian Joseph A. McCartin discusses the...view
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History, Medicine, Race
Feb. 22, 2011 — Historian Keith Wailoo, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, discusses “How Cancer Crossed the Color Line,” which explores the role of race in...view
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History, Role of government
Feb. 15, 2011 — Howard Campbell, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas-El Paso, discusses his book, “Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juarez...view
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Corporate influence, History, Media
Feb. 1, 2011 — Cornell University historian Robert Vanderlan discusses his book, “Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce’s Media Empire,” which explores the...view
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Alternative models, History, Race
Jan. 25, 2011 — University of Pennsylvania historian Steven Hahn discusses how the ways that many scholars — and Americans, generally — have thought about the Civil Rights Movement...view