History

Cynthia Grant Tucker author of "No Silent Witness"

Airs at: Thu, 03/10/2011 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Guest Cynthia Grant Tucker, author of No Silent Witness: the Eliot Parsonage Women and their Unitarian World, discusses the stories of the women who influenced the liberal culture of America, particularly here in Portland. "No Silent Witness" is a group biography which... Read more

Secret Asian Woman

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Secret Asian Woman, a half-hour personal exploration of identity and mixed race produced by Dmae Roberts. Throughout her life especially living in Oregon, Dmae has had to bring up her ethnicity especially when it comes to the question: "What Are You?" This piece was... Read more

The Lost Portland Neighborhood of Guild's Lake Courts

Airs at: Mon, 02/28/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

The topic is the lost Portland neighborhood of Guild's Lake Courts. Hosts Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with local historian Tanya March, who has researched the Guild's Lake development during the 1930s and 40s, and former Guild's Lake Courts resident Charles C... Read more

Per Fagereng speaks with historian Alfred McCoy

Airs at: Thu, 12/16/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

Host Per Fagereng speaks with historian Alfred McCoy about his article “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025” McCoy says the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more qui... Read more

More Talk Radio on 12/13/10

Airs at: Mon, 12/13/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview James Kloppenberg about his book "Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition." Intellectual historian Kloppenberg says the influences that have shaped Obama's distinctive worldview, include Nietzsche a... Read more

More Talk Radio on 12/06/10

Airs at: Mon, 12/06/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Daniel Martinez HoSang about his book Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (American Crossroads), which looks at the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the pas... Read more

Political Perspectives on 11/24/10

Airs at: Wed, 11/24/2010 at 9:00am - 9:30am

Produced for: Political Perspectives

Dr. Ruth Rosen, Professor of History and author of many books, including The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, talks about women's participation in the Tea Party movement and the complex motives behind it. Ruth Rosen is a pioneering hist... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana} This is a re-broadcast of our 2010 interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson about her award-wining book “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Gr... Read more

Fight the Empire on 09/30/10, Host Per Fagereng interviews Gareth Porter

Airs at: Thu, 09/30/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

Host Per Fagereng interviews Gareth Porter, historian, investigative journalist and policy analyst on U.S. foreign and military policy. Porter just wrote a piece titled "UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis 'Executed' U.S. Citizen Furkan Dogan," which states: "The report... Read more

Between the Covers on 09/02/10

Airs at: Thu, 09/02/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ed Goldberg speaks with David Mitchell, whose most recent book is "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet," a historical novel of corruption, betrayal and love in Japan in 1799, when the island nation was almost entirely cut off from the West except for a tiny, quara... Read more