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Historians

  • Richard Carbray, Howard Schomer, Joseph Sittler and Gordon Zahn talk to Studs Terkel ; part 1

    Jan. 18, 1965
  • Interviewing historian and photographer Vicki Goldberg

    1980
  • Carl Smith discusses his book "Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman"

    Feb. 27, 1995
  • Interviewing St. Clair Drake, author of "Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City."

    May. 10, 1976
  • Garry Wills discusses his book "Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence"

    Jul. 2, 1981
  • Alexander Eliot discusses his book "Sight and Insight"

    Mar. 14, 1959
  • Talking about Poland, with Lawrence Weschler

    May. 2, 1984
  • Paul Angle and Win Stracke

    Paul Angle, historian and writer, and Win Stracke, folk musician, discuss "Crossroads: 1913," part 3

    Jul. 1, 1963
  • Eric Goldman

    Eric Goldman discusses his experiences as special consultant to President Lyndon Johnson

    1967
  • Paul Fussell in conversation with Studs Terkel

  • Ruth Duskin Feldman

    Discussing the book "Whatever happened to the quiz kids" with the author Ruth Duskin Feldman

    Dec. 27, 1982
  • Richard Carbray, Howard Schomer, Joseph Sittler and Gordon Zahn talk to Studs Terkel ; part 2

    Jan. 18, 1965
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