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  • Vine Deloria discusses his book "American Indians, American Justice"

    Nov. 17, 1983

    Buffalo, land, barbed wire, treaties and legal cases are all topics of Vine Deloria's book, "American Indians, American Justice". A lawyer and a Sioux Indian himself, Deloria points out a tricky question for the courts -- What constitutes Indian country?

  • Tom Hines, Bill Hasbrouck and Harry Weese discuss Daniel Burnham

    Nov. 11, 1974

    Discussing Chicago architect Daniel Burnham with Tom Hines, Bill Hasbrouck and Harry Weese.

  • The very "U" girl talks with Studs Terkel ; part 2

    1962

    Interviewing with the very "u" girl at the establishment (Part 2) while Studs was in England.

  • Paul Boyer discusses his book "By the Bomb's Early Light"

    Jan. 9, 1986

    In the book, "By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age," Paul Boyer covers people's feelings and attitudes after the bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. Boyer admits he, himself, when he was a young boy, he sent away for a free atomic ring that was being advertised. The program includes an excerpt of David Lilienthal talking.

  • Interviewing labor historian Bill Adelman and guest

    Jun. 30, 1994
  • Interviewing director and acting coach Peter Wood and Theatre School of DePaul University alumna and Chicago theater historian Lucille Strauss

    Aug. 24, 1988
  • Interview with Bill Adelman and Heinrich Nuhn

    Jun. 25, 1993

    Interviewing labor historian Bill Adelman and German author and historian Heinrich Nuhn.

  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses race and the magazine "Critical Inquiry"

    Jan. 24, 1986

    As the guest editor of “Critical Inquiry,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. covered the importance of Black writers and their contributions. Because there is no color blindness is the western world, explained Gates, pointing out that one is a Black writer or a Black doctor is important to society. Gates also covers the issue of race not being solely about Black and white people but rather it has to do with multi-ethnic and multi-cultural people.

  • Discussing the book "The Streets of East London" with the author, Professor William J. Fishman

    Oct. 5, 1982
  • Discussing the book "The American inquisition: justice and injustice in the cold war" with the author Stanley Kutler

    Dec. 16, 1982

    Discussing the book "The American inquisition: justice and injustice in the cold war" with the author Stanley Kutler.

  • Discussing the book "Shattered Applause: The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne" with the author, educator and theater historian Robert A. Schanke

    Feb. 3, 1993
  • Discussing the book "Professors, Politics, and Pop" with the author, historian Jon Wiener

    Nov. 18, 1991
  • Discussing the book "God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan" with the author, Yale University historian Jonathan Spence

    Feb. 1, 1996
  • Discussing the book "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era" with the author, historian James McPherson ; part 2

    Jun. 6, 1989

    Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.

  • Discussing the book "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era" with the author, historian James McPherson ; part 1

    Jun. 6, 1989
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