Search
Episodes by month
Meta
Tags
Africa African American History Animal Rights Art China Civil Rights Civil War Constitution Culture Environment Ethics Europe Existentialism Feminism Fiction French From Protest to Power Gender German History Humanities Human Rights Internet Journalism Literary Criticism Literature Marxism Middle East Music New York Times Novelist Philosophy Poetry Politics Pulitzer Prize Race Religion Shakespeare Southern Literature Spanish Sports The South Victorian Victorian literature Western Culture
Tag Archives: Culture
Dixie Rising
New York Times Atlanta correspondent Peter Applebome reads from and discusses his book Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture. He addresses the many attempts at defining the South and Southerners and discusses race and labor history.
Posted in Episodes
Tagged Culture, George C. Wallace, History, J. B. Stoner, Memory, Race, The South, William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
Leave a comment
The Death of Satan
Literary scholar Andrew Delbanco [NHC Fellow 1990-91, 2002-03] discusses his book, The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil. Delbanco explains the ways Americans have conceptualized and described evil in political, cultural, and literary terms from the 16th to the 20th centuries and concludes by discussing the future of the devil in American culture.
Television and Children Part 1
Television historian Thomas Cripps [NHC Fellow 1980-81] and Eli Rubinstein, who was Vice-Chairman of the Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and the Young Viewer, address the impact of television on youth in the first of a two-part discussion. Cripps and Rubinstein discuss public concerns regarding violence and television, arguing that “sanitized violence” seen in television is a novel problem that divorces violence from consequences for children. At the time of this interview, Rubinstein was adjunct research professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina and Cripps was professor of history at Morgan State University.
Observations from Overseas About American Culture Part 2
Muriel Bradbrook [NHC Fellow 1978-79, 198o-81], Alfred Hornung [NHC Fellow 1980-81], and Ralph Elliot [NHC Fellow 1980-81] discuss American culture, focusing on feminism and women’s rights movements, religion, education and literacy, and the humanities and humanism in the United States. The scholars conclude by discussing their views of America’s greatest strengths and weaknesses.
Posted in Episodes
Tagged Culture, Europe, Feminism, Humanities, Religion, United States
Leave a comment