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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.
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Tagged Culture, George C. Wallace, History, J. B. Stoner, Memory, Race, The South, William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
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Green Imperialism
Environmental historian Richard Grove [NHC Fellow 1995-96] discusses his book, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860, an account of environmentalism with special reference to islands as metaphors of Western thought. At the time of this interview, Grove was a research associate at the Australian National University and coordinator of the Global Environmental History Unit at the University of Cambridge.
Computers and Culture
As part of a continuing series of discussions on the history of information technology produced in collaboration with the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, Soundings features innovator Brewster Kahle. His latest brainchild is the Internet Archive, a large-scale digital information repository. Among the Archive’s goals is keeping track of the technical innovations that are changing our understanding and use of digital information.
Culture and Work
A talk about the Encyclopedia of African Culture and History. David Smith is a principal editor of the recently published five-volume set.
Julius Wilson talks about his most recent book, When Work Disappears.
Ancient Mosaics
A conversation about Sepphoris in Galilee, an exhibition that recently opened at the N.C. Museum of Art. The exhibition focuses on the archaeological site of Sepphoris, an ancient city in Roman Palestine described by the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius as the ornament of all Galilee. Today, Sepphoris represents cultural crosscurrents between the modern and the ancient world. A conversation about the law in ancient Rome.
After Thought
Can computers think? According to cyberspace expert James Bailey, the power of intellectual development is in transition and computers will soon no longer be merely our tools but our intellectual companions. Bailey, was invited to talk about his new book, After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence, as a part of the series of discussions on the history, culture, and ethics of information technology with the cooperation of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program.
Writing Spaces
In a continuing series of programs produced in collaboration with the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program and devoted to the history, culture, and ethics of information technology, Jay David Bolter, a classics scholar and cyberspace expert, is featured. His most recent book is Writing Space, an account of how computers are reshaping conventional notions about books, the nature of writing, and textual and visual literacy.
Internet Pioneer
Robert Kahn reflects on his role in the history and social implications of information technology. Kahn is the founder of the Internet and his influence on the growth of information technology is widely known in industry and government. He is the 1996 recipient of the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Information Technology Leadership Award for Global Integration, presented at the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program in Washington.
Creating the National Pastime
G.Edward White, a social historian and baseball fan, talks about his new book, Creating the National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953. In a conversation with another legal scholar and baseball connoisseur, Vincent Blassi, Professor White describes how baseball, which began as a marginal urban sport associated with drinking and gambling, became more than a ritual of childhood, an emblem of American individuality and fair play, or an idyllic search for myth. Rather, as it evolved through the Progressive Era, it was the seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game that helped to transform baseball into the national pastime.
Remembering F.D.R.
In recognition of Roosevelt History Month, the first to be so named in the nation’s history, one of America’s distinguished historians, William Leuchtenburg, talks about the meaning of F. D. R.’s life and legacy. Professor Leuchtenburg’s most recent books include The F.D.R. Years and The Supreme Court Reborn.
Casting the Internet
“The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program and Soundings collaborate to present cyberspace pioneer Robert Metcalfe. Inventor of the Ethernet and executive correspondent for InfoWorld Magazine, Metcalfe talks about the history, evolution, and culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web.” [Wayne Pond]
Cussin’, Fightin’ & Rarin’
“For Women’s History Month, historian Stephanie Shaw [NHC Fellow 1995-96] talks [...] about her study of gender and slavery in 19th-century America. How did slaves, especially women, resist their oppressors? How successful were they?” [Wayne Pond]
Black Workers Remember
“During his fellowship year at the National Humanities Center [1995-96], Michael Honey, the author of a prize-winning book on labor and civil rights in the American South, is at work on a new project — an oral history of black workers at the time of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.” [Wayne Pond]
Warfield Stories
“William Warfield, the distinguished performer and teacher of music and one of the most important contributors to 20th-century African American culture, talks with music historian and critic Mark Tucker [NHC Fellow 1991-92] of Columbia University.” [Wayne Pond]
Home Again
“Novelist Anderson Ferrell reads from and talks about his new book, Home for the Day. Macky Alston discusses Family Name, his documentary film about the search through the complicated history of his white Southern family and its relationship to slavery [15:30].” [Wayne Pond]