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Interviewing author and historian Sydney Lewis.
Discussing "Afro-American cross-currents" and interviewing St. Clair Drake, George Shepperson and Professor Lorenzo Turner.
The historian and scholar describes how the suicide attempt which lead to his blindness gave him a new appreciation for life. Studs also plays a clip of a blind Chicago housing project resident.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
"War Times"
Interviewing John Martin: "Visit deep south Appalachia 1970" [also includes excerpts of Studs trip South in 1966)]
Co-author of Guernica: The Crucible of World War II*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations
Discussing "A Natural History of the Senses" with the author Diane Ackerman.
Interviewing labor historian Bill Adelman and German author and historian Heinrich Nuhn.
Interviewing Bertrand Russell and Phyllis Evans while Studs was in England.
Discussing the book "Lost Cities of Africa" with author Basil Davidson while Studs was in London.
Discussing American democracy and interviewing Henry Steele Commager. Commager is an eminent historian who published an annotated version of Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America".
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.).