Roundup: Audio/Video History
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Daniel Okrent: When Liquor Was Prescribed as Medicine [video, 2 minutes, 29 seconds]
Dissent Video: Obama and the Left [video, 55 minutes 7 seconds]
Alexander Zaitchik and Rick Perlstein: Whither Glenn Beck? [video 19 minutes 44 seconds]
Timothy Furnish on Iranian Mahdism and WMDs [video, 82 minutes 44 seconds]
Nancy Koehn on Lincoln's Wartime Leadership [video, 3 minutes 41 seconds]
James T. Patterson: America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Pt. 1 [Podcast, 40 minutes]
Interview from the Lincoln Bedroom with Harold Holzer [video 47 minutes 4 seconds]
The American History Guys: Teed Off: The Tea Party, Then and Now [audio, 25 minutes 52 seconds]
Ariz. Ban On Ethnic Studies Divides Educators [audio, 30 minutes 20 seconds]
Bethany Moreton: To Serve God and Walmart [7 minutes 57 seconds]
Q&A: Historians Richard Norton Smith & Douglas Brinkley [video 60 minutes 26 seconds]
San Francisco before and after the 1906 earthquake [video 5 minutes 7 seconds]
Graham Hodges and Eric Foner: New York City Underground Railroad [video 57 minutes and 27 seconds]
Climate Control: A History of Heating & Cooling [audio 54 minutes and 55 seconds]
How Smithsonian Selects, Rejects Donations [audio 4 minutes and 3 seconds]
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Daniel Okrent: When Liquor Was Prescribed as Medicine [video, 2 minutes, 29 seconds]
Source: Slate (7-28-10)
Author Daniel Okrent describes how wealthy people managed to evade Prohibition in this episode of Slate V's Bookmark.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Dissent Video: Obama and the Left [video, 55 minutes 7 seconds]
Source: Dissent (8-17-10)
On July 28, David Bromwich, Eugene Goodheart, and Julian Zelizer gathered to discuss the relationship between President Obama and the Left, in a panel moderated by Dissent’s executive editor Maxine Phillips.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Alexander Zaitchik and Rick Perlstein: Whither Glenn Beck? [video 19 minutes 44 seconds]
Source: Truthout (8-16-10)
Glenn Beck might not have a lot of advertisers left, but he's got a lot of viewers still. And the Obama administration recently showed off just how terrified they are of the FOX News host by pressuring Shirley Sherrod to leave her position because of the threat of a video appearing on Beck's show. But Beck didn't start off as a journalist (or a demagogue). He came from much humbler beginnings.
Alexander Zaitchik has a new book out, Common Nonsense, looking at the background and bluster of FOX's star, and he joins us in studio, along with historian and author of Nixonland Rick Perlstein via phone, to discuss, give some context, and to try and answer the serious question: how much attention should progressives really be paying to Beck?
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Timothy Furnish on Iranian Mahdism and WMDs [video, 82 minutes 44 seconds]
Source: Google Videos (7-15-10)
Timothy Furnish at a forum (also attended by Rick Santorum) sponsored by the Hudson Institute on Iranian Mahdism and WMDs.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Nancy Koehn on Lincoln's Wartime Leadership [video, 3 minutes 41 seconds]
Source: WaPo (7-8-10)
Harvard historian Nancy Koehn on how President Abraham Lincoln's found his leadership 'backbone.' (Video by Madeline Marshall, Akira Hakuta, Andrea Useem/The Washington Post)
Monday, June 7, 2010
James T. Patterson: America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Pt. 1 [Podcast, 40 minutes]
Source: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/podcasts/podcast.php?podcast_id=540 (6-6-10)
Historian James T. Patterson discusses his book Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore. He looks at the United States during the final quarter of the twentieth century, from the 1970s to the election of 2000. This is part one of a two-part lecture.
The Gores and “Gray Divorce” [Audio, 45 minutes 47 seconds]
Source: NPR (6-7-10)
Al and Tipper Gore celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last month, then sent an e-mail out to friends: “We’re announcing today,” they wrote, “that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we’ve decided to separate.”
It was a slow-rolling bombshell when it hit the media.
Al and Tipper? The Ozzie and Harriet unbreakable couple of the political world, the famous big kissers –divorcing? After forty years? Why?
And if their marriage wasn’t safe, who’s was?
This Hour, On Point: we talk about graying Boomers, long-term marrieds, getting divorced – and what that means.
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Guests:
Elana Katz, senior faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, where she supervises in the advanced family therapy training program and directs the Family and Divorce Mediation Program.
Sally Quinn, columnist for the Washington Post, where she co-moderates the “On Faith” site.
Stephanie Coontz, professor of history and family studies at Evergreen State College and director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families. Read her CNN.com piece “Why Gore breakup touched a nerve.” Her most recent book is “Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage.” Her forthcoming book is “A Strange Stirring: Of ‘The Feminine Mystique’ and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.”
Friday, June 4, 2010
Interview from the Lincoln Bedroom with Harold Holzer [video 47 minutes 4 seconds]
Source: C-SPAN (12-31-69)
Historian Harold Holzer believes that "there is no place more important to the Lincoln story than this room." Here, in the Lincoln Bedroom, President Lincoln and his ministers decided to reinforce Ft. Sumter and thereby resist secession. Holzer recounts the story of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in this room on January 1, 1863.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The American History Guys: Teed Off: The Tea Party, Then and Now [audio, 25 minutes 52 seconds]
Source: BackStory with the American History Guys (5-26-10)
The founding fathers have never really gone out of style. But there are times when their popularity surges. Times like now, when conservative protesters routinely take to the streets with three-cornered hats and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags.
In this podcast, the History Guys take a closer look at the Tea Party Movement, and ask what, if anything, 2010 has in common with 1773. They also consider what the history of American populism portends for the Tea Party’s future.
* Guest Scholar: Benjamin Carp, Tufts University
The History Guys:
- Peter Onuf (18th Century Guy) is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author/editor of eleven books, including most recently Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War.
- 19th Century Guy Ed Ayers, during a broadcast of BackStory, at the Va Foundation for the Humanities Studio in Charlottesville, June 2009
- Ed Ayers (19th Century Guy) is President of the University of Richmond. Previously, he served as Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. The author/editor of ten books (including the Bancroft Prize-winning In the Presence of Mine Enemies), Ed also directed the online history project The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War.
- 20th Century Guy Brian Balogh during a broadcast of BackStory, at the Va Foundation for the Humanities Studio in Charlottesville, June 2009
- Brian Balogh (20th Century Guy) is a Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Director of the Fellowship Program at Governing America in a Global Era Program at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. His third book, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America, was published in 2009.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Ariz. Ban On Ethnic Studies Divides Educators [audio, 30 minutes 20 seconds]
Source: NPR (5-24-10)
Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) signed into law a ban on classes that are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnicity. The law targets any ethnic studies classes in the state's public school system that "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Bethany Moreton: To Serve God and Walmart [7 minutes 57 seconds]
Source: Vodpod.com (10-8-09)
Bethany Moreton, author of To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise on how Walmart has effectively married capitalism and Christianity.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Q&A: Historians Richard Norton Smith & Douglas Brinkley [video 60 minutes 26 seconds]
Source: YouTube (4-26-10)
Historians Richard Norton Smith & Douglas Brinkley discuss their professions and their experiences with teaching history through tours of historic sites. C-SPAN Program from Sunday, April 25, 2010.
Monday, April 19, 2010
San Francisco before and after the 1906 earthquake [video 5 minutes 7 seconds]
Source: YouTube (1-14-07)
In 1905, an unknown cameraman filmed a streetcar trip along San Francisco's Market Street. The following year, the Great Earthquake struck, and he filmed the trip again. This is a five-minute silent film that edits together excerpts of his two films. Footage from the Prelinger Archives, edited by Matt Lake
Friday, March 26, 2010
Graham Hodges and Eric Foner: New York City Underground Railroad [video 57 minutes and 27 seconds]
Source: C-SPAN (3-7-10)
David Ruggles was a 19th century abolitionist who helped fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad of New York City. The New York Historical Society presented a program about the conductor.
Rick Perlstein: "Whatever Happened to Hope: Why Barack Obama Cannot Become a Transformational President" [video 91 minutes and 36 seconds]
Source: Vanderbilt University (3-25-10)
Rick Perlstein, an author and political journalist who has written extensively about the history of conservatism in modern America, spoke at Vanderbilt University on March 22, 2010.
His books include Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008). His lecture at Vanderbilt was drawn from a third historical volume he is writing that focuses on the rise of Ronald Reagan.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
MLK speaking on the future of integration at Bethel College in Kansas, Jan. 1960 [audio 69 minutes and 3 seconds]
Source: Bethel College (Kansas) (12-31-69)
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Climate Control: A History of Heating & Cooling [audio 54 minutes and 55 seconds]
Source: BackStory with the American History Guys (3-5-10)
Well into the 19th century, Americans relied on fireplaces to warm their homes in winter. But that method wasn’t simply inefficient — it was ineffective, too. Travel a few feet from the fireplace, and you might start shivering again.
In this episode, the History Guys look at what happened when stoves became widely available in the mid-19th century, and how that technology altered Americans’ way of life. They also consider the advent of air conditioning a century later, and explore its far-reaching implications on everything from architecture and leisure to demography and politics.
How did America become the “land of comfort?” And what lessons does the history of climate control hold for us today?
How Smithsonian Selects, Rejects Donations [audio 4 minutes and 3 seconds]
Source: NPR - All Things Considered (3-4-10)
The Smithsonian Institution announced this week it won't accept a donation of the suit worn by O.J. Simpson on the day of his murder acquittal. Lonnie G. Bunch, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, discusses how proposed donated objects are sorted though for acceptance and rejection at the institution.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Rare Tintin drawings to be auctioned [video 1 min 27 secs]
Source: BBC (3-2-10)
Rare drawings and sketches of the Belgian cartoon character Tintin are to be auctioned later this year in Paris.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I Have Not Yet Begun to Rot [audio 7 minutes and 5 seconds]
Source: the memory place (1-31-10)
John Paul Jones' was the creator of the American navy and one of the greatest patriots of the American War of Independence; but 15 years afterward no one seemed to remember the man. He died, alone, in Paris and was buried without ceremony or fanfare. A hundred years later, US Ambassador Horace Porter, recovered and had Jones' remains interred back in America.
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