: A BBC World Service special that compares and
contrasts the United States with the great empires of the past.
KENT STATE SHOOTINGS, 35 YEARS LATER,
Talk of the Nation, May 4, 2005. Writer Philip Caputo discusses
his return to Kent State, where he covered the 1970 killings as a young
Chicago Tribune reporter.
MACARTHUR'S BABY, In Our Time, March 14-21,
2005. A two-part BBC series in which Anglo-Dutch writer Ian Buruma
studies the post-war American Occupation of Japan.
SOLDIER AGAINST SOLDIER: THE STORY OF THE BONUS ARMY,
Weekend Edition, February 13, 2005. Historian Paul Dickson
retells the tale of the 1932 conflict between the federal government and World
War I doughboy veterans who had traveled to the nation's capital during the
Depression to demand early payment on their wartime benefits.
PRESIDENT CALLING -- WHITE HOUSE TAPES, AmericanRadioWorks, 2005. A documentary by Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis that uses the thousands of hours of secretly-recorded conversations by Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon as its focus.
FROM PUPPET TO PARIAH -- THE U.S. RELATIONSHIP WITH IRAN,
The World, October 25-28, 2004: A special four-part series
tracing the history of American-Iranian relations from the 1953 coup through
the 1979 revolution and beyond.
THURGOOD MARSHALL BEFORE THE COURT, American RadioWorks, May 2004. Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis recount the remarkable life and career of the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
PERILS OF IGNORING HISTORY,
On Point, April 26, 2004. The guest is Columbia University Arab
Studies professor Rashid Khalidi, author of Resurrecting Empire, Western
Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East.
"FIRESIDE CHAT" ANNIVERSARY -- FDR'S MICROPHONE MASTERY,
Day to Day, March 12, 2004. A NPR news feature on the 71st
anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's first radio address.
ONCE UPON AN EMPIRE, On
Point, July 28, 2003. An interview with Thomas de Zengotita, author
of "The Romance of Empire and the Politics of Self-Love" in the July 2003
edition of Harper's Magazine.
KOREA -- THE UNFINISHED WAR, American
RadioWorks, July 2003.
A report on the fiftieth anniversary of the war about its historical
significance.
BRITISH EMPIRE: LESSONS FOR AMERICA,
On Point, April 14, 2003. The British historian Niall Ferguson
highlights what the U.S. might learn from the rise and fall of the British
Empire.
A HISTORY OF TWO COUNTRIES, Connection, April 3, 2003.
Looking back to a time when relations between the United States and Saddam
Hussein's Iraq were more cordial.
REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN WAR,
On Point, February 17, 2003. A discussion of the Korean War with
veterans on the fiftieth anniversary of its ending.
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS -- 40 YEARS ON,
BBC Radio 4, October 16-28, 2002. A commemorative seven-part
retrospective on the two weeks in 1962 during which the world seemed to rest
on the brink of nuclear war.
DOCUMENTING THE DEPRESSION,
NPR, February 23, 2002. Reporter Lisa Simeone talks to the
editors of Children of the Depression about the government-sponsored FSA photo
project of the 1930s.
REMEMBERING
JIM CROW, American
RadioWorks, November 2001. In a feature documentary involving
collaboration with Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and its
Behind the Veil oral history project, blacks and whites talk about life during
the segregated era.
OH FREEDOM OVER ME,
American RadioWorks, February 2001. John Biewen's three-part special
on Freedom Summer, the 1964 attempt by civil rights workers to challenge the
system of segregation in Mississippi.
, American RadioWorks, February 2001.
REVISITING VIETNAM, American RadioWorks, April 2000. A series of stories on the 25th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURY,
Talk of the Nation, December 29, 1999. Host Juan Williams
interviews elderly Americans about their perspectives on the century they have
witnessed.
HISTORY OF HOBOES, Talk
of the Nation, July 6, 1999. The guests, who include a former hobo,
the publisher of the Hobo Times, and the author of Riding the Rails:
Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression, discuss the romance and
reality of hobo history.
FDR DEATH ANNIVERSARY,
All Things Considered, April 12, 1999. A news feature on the 54th
anniversary of the American President's sudden death in Warm Springs, Georgia.
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS,
Talk of the Nation, June 18, 1997. The guests on this NPR talk show,
co-authors of One Hell of A Gamble -- Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, argue
that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. came even closer to war in October 1962 than
previously realized.
FDR: NEW DEAL PROGRAM,
Talk of the Nation, May 1, 1997. Host Melinda Penkava discusses the
legacies of the social programs introduced by Roosevelt on the occasion of the
unveiling of a Washington, D.C. memorial in his honour.