Archive for February, 2008

Next Week: Eric Weitz on WEIMAR GERMANY

February 28th, 2008

We talk with historian Eric Weitz about WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy. We explore Germany’s incredible creative ferment and innovation during the period between the two world wars. (…)

This Week: John Elder Robison talks about life with Asperger’s

February 28th, 2008

We talk with John Elder Robison about his wonderful memoir, LOOK ME IN THE EYE: My Life With Asperger’s. (…)

 
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Podcast 61: Black History Month Special

February 25th, 2008

Abijah Prince was born into slavery in the early 17th century in Springfield, Massachusetts, but in middle age, he arranged his own freedom and married (and freed) the dynamic and eloquent Lucy Terry of the nearby town of Deerfield. (…)

 
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Next Week: Life with Asperger’s Syndrome

February 21st, 2008

We talk with John Elder Robison about his wonderful memoir, LOOK ME IN THE EYE. (…)

This Week: Slavery and Out From It

February 21st, 2008

We talk with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina about MR. AND MRS. PRINCE: How An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. (…)

Podcast 60: Kevin Patterson and John Hanson Mitchell

February 17th, 2008

As a physician, Kevin Patterson treats Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic. As a novelist, he explores the collision between the old and the new in that region. (…)

 
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Next Week: Slavery and Out From It

February 15th, 2008

We talk with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina about MR. AND MRS. PRINCE: How An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend. (…)