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  • James L. Leloudis in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Mar. 11, 1988
  • Interviewing radio and television historian J. Fred MacDonald, and Clarice Durham, widow of Richard Durham, an African American radio scriptwriter

    Dec. 16, 1991

    Durham created and broadcast radio plays in Chicago from 1948-1950, and his work was chronicled in "Richard Durham's Destination Freedom: Scripts From Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-50."

  • Interviewing oral historian, folk musician and musicologist Jesus "Chuy" Negrete

    Oct. 24, 1997
  • Stephen Brier

    Interview with Stephen Brier

    Apr. 3, 1993

    Discussing the book "Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society," (published by Pantheon) with one of the authors, Stephen Brier.

  • Loren Baritz

    Interview with Loren Baritz

    Apr. 25, 1985

    Discussing the book "Backfire: A History of How American Culture Lead Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight The Way We Did," (published by W. Morrow) with the author Loren Baritz.

  • H. Bruce (Howard Bruce) Franklin in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Mar. 18, 1992

    Discussing the book "M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America" (published by L. Hill Books) with the author Professor H. Bruce Franklin.

  • Gore Vidal discusses his book “Lincoln”

    Jun. 22, 1984

    Discussing the book "Lincoln" with the author Gore Vidal.

  • Discussing the history of the Knights of Labor with John Gerlach, Herb Gutman, and Dave Montgomery

    May. 18, 1979
  • Discussing the history of Maxwell Street with University of Illinois at Chicago historian Bill Adelman, Roosevelt University professor of Sociology and Anthropology Carolyn Eastwood, and Chicago Blues Festival director Barry Dolins

    May. 13, 1993
  • Discussing the book, Sparrows Point: Making Steel: The Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might with Mark Reutter

    Feb. 1, 1989
  • Discussing the book "Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism" with the author, historian Peter Winn

    Jul. 24, 1986
  • Discussing the book "War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War" (published by Pantheon) with the author John Dower

    Jul. 29, 1986

    Discussing the book "War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War" (published by Pantheon) with the author John Dower.

  • Discussing the book "Under God: Religion and American Politics" with author, journalist, and historian Garry Wills

    Nov. 22, 1991
  • Discussing the book "Under God: Religion and American Politics" with author Garry Wills

    Nov. 27, 1990
  • Discussing the book "Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African American Railroad Attendant"with the David Perata and guests

    Feb. 17, 1997
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