Archive for the ‘history’ Category

Podcast 62: Eric Weitz’s WEIMAR GERMANY

March 11th, 2008

We talk with historian Eric Weitz about WEIMAR GERMANY: Promise and Tragedy. (…)

 
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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. (…)

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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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. (…)