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Interview Archives: United States history


Tuesday, January 09, 2001

1:06 pm

HUNGRY FOR HOME LEAVING THE BLASKETS: A JOURNEY FROM THE EDGE OF IRELAND

Cole Moreton, Journalist

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Categories: HistoryEuropean historyUnited States historyImmigrationEuropeIreland

Friday, February 23, 2001

1:06 pm

The Law & You: REVENGE OF THE PEQUOTS: HOW A SMALL NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE CREATED THE WORLD’S MOST PROFITABLE CASINO

Kim Isaac Eisler, National editor of Washingtonian magazine

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Categories: HistoryUnited States historyRace/EthnicityNative Americans

Tuesday, March 13, 2001

1:06 pm

FANNY KEMBLE’S JOURNALS and FANNY KEMBLE’S CIVIL WARS

Catherine Clinton, Writer

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Categories: BiographyHistoryUnited States historyRace/EthnicityAfrican-AmericanSlavery

Wednesday, March 21, 2001

1:06 pm

TO DIE FOR: THE PARADOX OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM

Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary, Assistant professor of history at the California State University, Monterey Bay; Co-Director of the Oral History and Community Memory Institute

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Categories: HistoryUnited States history

Tuesday, April 03, 2001

1:06 pm

THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE: THE STORY OF KIM PHUC, THE PHOTOGRAPH, AND THE VIETNAM WAR

Denise Chong, Writer

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Categories: HistoryUnited States historyViolenceWarWar CrimesAsiaVietnam

Thursday, April 12, 2001

1:06 pm

PARLOR POLITICS: IN WHICH THE LADIES OF WASHINGTON HELP BUILD A CITY AND A GOVERNMENT

Catherine Allgor, Assistant Professor of History at Simmons College, Boston

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Categories: Gender issuesGovernmentHistoryUnited States historyPolitics

Wednesday, May 23, 2001

1:06 pm

FIVE-FINGER DISCOUNT: A CROOKED FAMILY HISTORY

Helene Stapinski, Journalist

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Categories: BiographyHistoryUnited States historyPoverty

Thursday, May 24, 2001

1:06 pm

MOTHER JONES: THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN AMERICA

Elliott J. Gorn, Professor of history at Purdue University

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Categories: HistoryUnited States historyHuman RightsLabor/worker issues

Thursday, October 04, 2001

1:06 pm

AFFAIRS OF HONOR: NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE NEW REPUBLIC

Joanne B. Freeman, Assistant professor of history at Yale University

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Categories: HistoryUnited States history

Thursday, October 11, 2001

1:06 pm

PRESIDENT NIXON: ALONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Richard Reeves, Syndicated columnist, winner of the 1998 American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Prize

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Categories: BiographyForeign Policy-U.S.HistoryUnited States historyPolitics

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