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  • Presenting music with the Chicago ensemble the Loop Group

    Feb. 16, 1987

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by the Loop Group

  • Oscar Brown Jr.

    Presenting music with Oscar Brown, Jr

    Jun. 6, 1977

    Music performance by Oscar Brown, Jr.

  • Presenting music with jazz pianist and radio host of "Piano Jazz," Marian McPartland

    Jun. 8, 1992

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Marian McPartland

  • Presenting music with jazz cornetist Jimmy McPartland and jazz pianist and radio host of "Piano Jazz," Marian McPartland

    Oct. 26, 1990

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Marian and Jimmy McPartland

  • Presenting music by jazz musicians Jimmy McPartland and Bud Freeman

    Aug. 31, 1982

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Jimmy McPartland and Bud Freeman

  • Jane Addams

    Presenting a program celebrating Hull House's 100th anniversary

    Sep. 13, 1989

    Terkel presents a program celebrating Hull House's centennial

  • Paul Angle and Win Stracke

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

    Jul. 1, 1963

    Paul Angle discusses his book "Crossroads: 1913," and Win Stracke provides a musical review. The three gentlemen talk in depth about the book with live and recorded music interspersed. Music: "Water--Oh!, Water For Me" and "The Rosary." "The Voice of Vienna" (a waltz).

  • Paul Angle and Win Stracke

    Paul Angle, historian and writer, and Win Stracke, folk musician, discuss "Crossroads: 1913," part 2

    Jul. 1, 1963

    Paul Angle discusses his book "Crossroads: 1913," and Win Stracke provides a musical review. The three gentlemen talk in depth about the book with live and recorded music interspersed. Songs include: "Casey Jones - The Union Scab," "Sweet Adeline," "We Shall Overcome," "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be," and "Immortality" by William Jennings Bryan (1908).

  • Paul Angle and Win Stracke

    Paul Angle, historian and writer and Win Stracke folk musician discuss "Crossroads: 1913," ; part 1

    Jul. 1, 1963

    Paul Angle, director of the Chicago Historical Society, discusses his new book "Crossroads: 1913." Win Stracke, musician, provides a musical review of Angle's book.

  • Patrick Zimmerman discusses his teaching methods for childhood education in low-income neighborhoods ; part 2

    Sep. 1, 1970

    Former public school teacher Patrick Zimmerman continues discussing his alternative teaching methods for childhood education in low-income and underrepresented communities in Chicago. Zimmerman discusses how the scientific emphasis of schooling today is stifling a child’s success in the classroom and calls instead for a balance between a scientific approach and a free-school approach.

  • Patrick Zimmerman discusses his teaching methods for childhood education in low-income neighborhoods ; part 1

    Sep. 1, 1970

    Former public school teacher Patrick Zimmerman discusses education and the free school movement for low-income and underrepresented communities in Chicago. Zimmerman discusses his time spent as a public school teacher and how this inspired his transition to teaching using alternative schooling methods in childhood education.

  • Patrick Henry and cast discuss the plays he's directing "To Life" and "What Do You Want to be When You Grow Old"

    1984

    Interviewing the company of Free Street Too with Pat Henry, Free Street Theater founder and producer. Free Street Theater is an arts outreach organization that provides workshops in writing, theater, music and dance and stages performances for populations

  • Pat Thompson discusses her background and her TV reporting career

    Jan. 14, 1975

    A reporter for WMAQ-TV, an NBC affiliate, Pat Thompson talks about her background and her TV reporting career. Ms. Thompson loved to read books, to be in other locales. Going into TV was the result of realizing she received her news mostly from the television.

  • Panel of women recipients discuss being welfare recipients in Chicago

    Jan. 1, 1969

    A panel of women discuss raising their families while getting welfare assistance and living in poverty in Chicago.

  • Otis Thomas in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 29, 1990
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