Judy Barrett Litoff - Professor of History, Bryant University - Aired 1/26/07
For more than 20 years, Judy Barrett Litoff has been collecting personal letters written during WWII. These stories are unlike anything you’ve ever read in your history books. Tune in to hear a unique perspective on life during wartime - including sound clips of some rare old “voice letters”.
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James T. Campbell, Associate Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History at Brown University - Aired 1/5/07
New Englanders tend to think of their relationship to slavery as “the abolitionists”. But it was they, not the southerners, who made this “peculiar institution” into such a mainstay of American society when our country was first founded. After years of research, a committee at Brown University chaired by James Campbell has issued its report about slavery and its ties to Brown University. The report — along with a curriculum, videos, audio, and electronically archived source documents — can all be found here.
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Eugene Jarecki, Visiting Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University - Aired 5/9/06 In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of “destroying from within that which you are trying to protect from without.” He was talking about a new development in American history, which he called “the military-industrial complex”. Ike himself was a five-star general, but as he left office he was extremely worried that the powerful interests of the war industry would destroy American democracy. Tonight on Not Your Classroom, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (who is a visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University) talks about Eisenhower’s warning, which is the focus of his recent film “Why We Fight”. “Why We Fight” won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. More about Jarecki here.
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