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Historians

  • Discussing the book "Cities & People: A Social and Architectural History" with the author and architectural historian Mark Girouard

    Feb. 13, 1986
  • Adria Bernardi discusses her book "Houses With Names: The Italian Immigrants of Highwood, Illinois"

    Dec. 12, 1989
  • Dempsey Travis discusses jazz artists and recalls his early memories of Chicago jazz

    Feb. 1, 1989
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook discusses her book, "The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Peace and Political Warfare"

    Aug. 6, 1981
  • P. David Finks discusses his book "The Radical Vision of Saul Alinsky"

    Sep. 7, 1984
  • Robert Twombly discusses the biography “Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work”

    Mar. 24, 1986
  • A discussion with William Rushton

    Apr. 9, 1979
  • John Henry Faulk discusses the Vietnam War and current state of America

    Nov. 1, 1969
  • Alfred McCoy discusses heroin trafficking; part 2

    1971
  • Robert Vaughn

    Robert Vaughn talks with Studs Terkel

    1970
  • Blue Money : Pornography and the Pornographers - an intimate look at the two-billion-dollar fantasy industry

    Discussing the book "Blue Money : Pornography and the Pornographers - an intimate look at the two-billion-dollar fantasy industry" and interviewing the author Carolyn See

    Aug. 16, 1974
  • Discussing the book "Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America" with the author, historian Page Smith

    Mar. 23, 1990
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