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Academics Historians
  • Alan Lomax in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Oct. 1, 1994
  • Henry Steele Commager discusses America, American history, and American relations; part 1

    May. 1, 1967

    Henry Steele Commager discusses America, American history, and American relations. He also discusses television, historical figures, and wars. (Recorded at the Orrington Hotel in Evanston, Ill.).

  • James R. (James Richard) Moore in conversation with Studs Terkel

    1980
  • Henry Louis Gates

    Henry Louis Gates in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 24, 1986
  • Interview with Bertrand Russell and Phyllis Evans Part 1

    1962

    Interviewing Bertrand Russell and Phyllis Evans while Studs was in England.

  • Edward W. Said

    Edward W. Said discusses Palestine, history of and struggles in the Middle East

    Oct. 1, 1984

    Edward W. Said talks about the importance of language in shifting perceptions of Middle Eastern people, refutes some opinions about Palestine, identities, and overlapping Eastern and Western cultures.

  • Alan Lomax

    Alan Lomax discusses collecting international folk music, part 1

    Jun. 30, 1959

    Alan Lomax discusses collecting international folk music (part 1 of 2). This 1959 broadcast was recorded after Alan Lomax traveled Europe collecting folk music. Includes: Trallalero song from north Italy; Italian folk opera song; a Slavic style Italian serenade; songs from Naples, Sicily and Sardinia; music from the Bulgarian State Folk Dance Ensemble; a Bulgarian ballad; and "My Little John Henry (Got a Mighty Know)" and "Long Summer Day" song by Alan Lomax.

  • Alan Lomax

    Alan Lomax discusses collecting international folk music

    Jun. 30, 1959

    Alan Lomax discusses collecting international folk music (part 2 of 2). This 1959 broadcast was recorded after Alan Lomax traveled Europe collecting folk music. Includes: African-American folk song sung by Alan Lomax; flamenco music, Spanish Easter procession band; Mallorca music, lullaby and dance; Ibizan music and dance; and Southern American prison chain gang song.

  • Alan Lomax

    Studs Terkel plays selections from Alan Lomax's collection

    Dec. 14, 1960
  • Interviewing St. Clair Drake, author of "Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City."

    May. 10, 1976

    A discussion with sociologist and anthropologist St. Clair Drake at the time of his receiving an honorary award from Roosevelt University on the themes of his convocation address. A fascinating deep-dive into race relations from the Revolution to the Bicentennial, touching on the contradictions, crises and struggles that led to Black institutions and liberation. Studs plays several excerpts from previous programs with St.

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

    Jan. 18, 1965

    Discussing "Father Roberts and Vatican III" and interviewing Richard Carbray, Howard Schomer, Joseph Sittler and Gordon Zahn

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

    Jan. 18, 1965

    Discussing "Father Roberts and Vatican III" and interviewing Richard Carbray, Howard Schomer, Joseph Sittler and Gordon Zahn

  • Interview with Lawrence Cohn

    Dec. 20, 1993

    Interviewing record producer and music historian Lawrence Cohn.

  • Richard and Patricia Waterman talk with Studs Terkel ; part 1

    1953

    Terkel interviews anthropologists Richard and Patricia Waterman. This interview is done in two parts.

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