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Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 > Natchez, Mississippi 1995
Charlottesville: “What happens to a dream deferred” wrote Langston Hughes in the poem Harlem. Hughes was referring to the frustrations of African-A…
11 years, 6 months ago
Clarksdale Mississippi 1995
Draft history. Race in America. A piece from 1995 reported from the Mississippi Delta
11 years, 6 months ago
FROM KABUL TO KENT, pt 2
History on the move: documentary about Ali, who left Afghanistan as 14 year old and snuck into Britain on a Eurotunnel freight train and today holds …
11 years, 7 months ago
FROM KABUL TO KENT pt 2
History on the move: the story of Ali, his two-year long journey from Afghanistan and his new life in the UK
11 years, 7 months ago
9/11 Live: On Air
Live history: 9/11 I was hosting the NPR program The Connection as the twin towers came down. How do you find the sounds to convey an epoch defining …
11 years, 8 months ago
FEDERALISM: A Political History
Political History: Federalism beginning with the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707 through to the European Union.
11 years, 8 months ago
Autumn 1973 Ep 5: End of the Post-War Economy
Turning Point in HIstory: Part 5 of my series on how the world dramaticall changed in Autumn 1973. The photo is of Dodge Main plant in Hamtramck MIc…
11 years, 11 months ago
Autumn 1973 Ep 4: Arab Oil Embargo
Turning Point in History: How the Arab oil embargo caught the American and Uk governments by surprise and effectively ended the post-World War2 econo…
11 years, 11 months ago
Episode 9 Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre
As the House Intelligence Committee memo alleging FBI malfeasance in its Russia investigation grabs the headlines, a look back at Nixon’s Saturday Ni…
11 years, 11 months ago
Autumn 1973 Ep 2: Yom Kippur War
Turning Point in History: The Yom Kippur war in 1973 changed Israeli and Jewish psyche's as well the relationship between the Arab nations and the Pa…
11 years, 11 months ago