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Aural History Productions Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere. We hope to expand our understanding of history by exploring the audio dimensions of our past, and we hope to enlarge the tools and venues of historical research and publication by promoting production of radio documentaries and other forms of aural history. In addition to our weekly radio program, we are engaged in numerous educational efforts, from running and sponsoring workshops to offering full-semester courses on radio production and oral history. Some of the most talented radio producers and engineers currently working in public and non-commercial radio now contribute to Talking Historyboth to our programming and to our educational efforts through production workshops. Here, you'll also find digital archives of their enormously creative and captivating works. Our weekly broadcast/internet radio program, Talking History, focuses on all aspects of history. Follow the link to the left, "The Radio Show," for more information on the program and to access the live WWW broadcast. Below you will find our latest archived shows; use the drop-down menu to the left to access to our full radio archive. ~ ~ ~ ~
Segment 2 | "Bobby Seale on Black Power."
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Segment 2 | Douglas McCarthur Addresses Congress (1951).
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Segment 2 | "Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940; final speech / audio track selection)."
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Segment 2 | "T. S. Elliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (published 1915; recitation circa 1940s)."
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"Culture Shock 1913" explores a seminal year in development of cultural modernism. It comes to us from WNYC: "What a year was 1913! Many have called it the true beginning of 20th century culture. From New York, where the first large-scale show of modern art alarmed viewers, to Vienna and Paris, where music by Schoenberg and Stravinsky sparked audience riots --- it was a year of artistic upset and audience apoplexy! A hundred years later, WNYC's Sara Fishko and guests tell the story of this Mad Modernist moment of sweeping change, and the ways in which it mirrors our own uncertain age. Producd by WNYC, New York Public Radio. Producer/Host Sara Fishko Guests: Museum of Modern Art's Ann Temkin; author Philipp Blom; pianist Jeremy Denk; Neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate Dr. Eric Kandel; The New Yorker's Joan Acocella and Alex Ross; author Frederic Morton; Conductor and educator Leon Botstein; and others." Segment 2 | "John Reed in Mexica, 1913"
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Today we bring you a documentary from Radio National/Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Hindsight -- about a series of sociological experiments in intergroup hostility that took place in the 1950s: "In 1954 at a small national park in rural Oklahoma, Turkish-American psychologist Muzafer Sherif brought two groups of 11-year-old boys to a summer camp. The boys, from Oklahoma city, arrived at the camp excited at the prospect of three weeks outdoors. What they didn't know and what they were never told was that their behaviour over the next three weeks would be studied, analysed, discussed and used in theories about war, interracial conflict and prejudice for generations to come. Almost 60 years since it was conducted, it's still cited in psychology textbooks today. But what's less well known is that the Robbers Cave was Sherif's third attempt to generate peace between warring groups. The earlier studies were the 1949 'Happy Valley Camp' study in Connecticut, and the second was his 1953 'Camp Talualac' study. 'Inside the Robbers Cave' tells the story of two of the three studies. Producer Gina Perry's research unearths a tale of drama, failure, mutiny and intrigue that has been overlooked in official accounts of Sherif's research. The program features original archival audio from recordings made during 1953 and 1954." Segment 2 | "William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954).
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Segment 2 | "Desk Set (film soundtrack selection; 1957)
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Segment 2 | "Clausewitz On War."
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Segment 2 | "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" (from LibriVox).
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Segment 2 | Samuel Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (from LibriVox).
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From Backstory and the American History Guys: "As the rest of Washington looks forward to the next four years, BackStory is looking back — at the last 224 years of presidential transitions. On today's show, the History Guys focus in on several of the most high-stakes presidential inaugurations, and ask what these moments tell us about the social and political forces at work around them.
Why was Washington's voice trembling when he took the Oath of Office? Why did Lincoln's contemporaries greet his now-famous second inaugural… with a shrug? What incoming president in the 1870s feared the specter of a rival inauguration by armed opponents? And in the larger scheme of things, why do inaugurations really matter, anyway?
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Guests Include:
Joanne Freeman, Yale University, on the incredibly high stakes of the nation's first U.S. presidential inauguration.
Tim McBride, former personal aide to George H.W. Bush, on how to project the right inaugural image.
William J. Cooper, Louisiana State University, on the three inaugurations of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
George Rable, University of Alabama, on Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, an extraordinary speech that garnered a collective shrug in its own time.
Greg Downs, City College of New York, on the specter of a two dueling inaugurations after the hotly disputed election of 1876.
Segment 2 | "John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Speech" (January 20, 1961).
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For this audio segment, please use "RealMedia" link, rather than embedded player. "From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with historical myths, including how the Klan ‘saved the South’ from carpetbagger incompetence and corruption and Freedmen’s brutality, considered and debated in the light of rare recorded testimony by ex-slaves and others. Told in the words of actual eyewitnesses and engaged historians, and with rare field recordings (oral histories and music both) from the period." This is the first installment of the award-winning Between Civil War and Civil Rights series, produced by Listening Between the Lines. For more information on other series segments, contact producer Alan Lipke at listeningbetweenthelines.org@verizon.net.
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From the Action Speaks Fall 2012 season, Private Rights and Public Fights: "In 1908, a young teacher and photographer, Lewis Hine, was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document evidence of child labor primarily on the East Coast and in the South. Hine had previously photographed arriving immigrants at Ellis Island and even then, his photos showed an extraordinary sensibility, one filled with respect, dignity, and equality. Hine's work helped introduce America to the issues of child labor at a time when the glories of Industrialization were filling the coffers of the rich, while beginning ever so slightly, to offer promises of economic advancement for those of the working class. Hine's pictures were worth more than a thousand words as he established the camera as an actor in social change. His heirs are many: the Photo League, Sebastian Salgado and perhaps even social documentary filmmakers like Michael Moore. Today artists continue to bear witness to perceived injustices, while at the same time prompting post-modern questions about the "objectivity" of the photograph and its makers."
Segment 2 | Archival Audio: "Booker T. Washington: Character Building"
This audio excerpt is Chapter 19, The Gospel of Service from a a talk given by Booker T. Washinton. From Librivox and Archive.Org: "Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Tuskegee University). Booker T. Washington was one of the most prominent leaders in advancing African-American civil rights. Born into slavery and freed as a young boy, he rose through the ranks of education to eventually earn his position as principal of Tuskegee. Under his guidance, the school was built, by students and for students, to give them a deeply meaningful education. Mr. Washington stressed the importance of developing oneself for life-long success. He strived to imbue in his students the highest personal standards, and these speeches represent the core messages he gave. (Originally published by Doubleday, Page & Co., NY, in 1902.). The reading and sound recording is from LibriVox.
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Backstory explores the history of college sports: "From Taylor Branch’s controversial article about college sports for The Atlantic to the tragic scandal uncovered at Penn State, the relationship between higher education and college athletics has provided some of the most heated controversies of the year. But why do sports even exist at colleges and universities? .... The American History Guys unpack the origins of college sports, and the ways universities have justified athletics on campus. Peter, Ed, and Brian take us to Amherst College in the 19th century, where the first collegiate Phys. Ed. program blossomed. They also recount a little-known story about the integration of the University of Alabama’s football team."
Segment 2 | Archival Audio: "President Eisenhower Proclaims Hawiian Statehood"
After a long and contested struggle, Hawaii become the 50th and most recent state admitted to the Union. In this audio clip from August 21, 1959, President Dwight D. Eishenhower proclaims Hawaii's statehood. See the National Archives site, http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/hawaii/ for additional
documents ranging from Queen Liliuokalani's December 19, 1898 letter
to the U.S. House of Representatives protesting U.S. assertion of ownership of Hawaii, to the
Certificate of Election for Representative Daniel K. Inouyeon August 21, 1959, as Hawaii's first voting member of the U.S. House of Representatives. One perspective on Hawaiian statehood is found in Gerald Horne's book, Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press 2011. http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8554-9780824835026.aspx. ~ ~ ~ ~
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December 21st, 2012 marks the end of the “Mayan Long Count” calendar, and this approaching date has triggered another round of prophesies about the end of the world. From
Backstory, "
On this episode: moments when we thought the game was about to be all over. From Indian prophets to bunker builders, the History Guys try to figure out why apocalyptic visions gain traction when they do, and ask what they tell us about American hopes and fears through the centuries." Follow the Backstory link for additional background information on this segment. Segment 2 | Archival Audio: "Mary Shelley: The Last Man"
Mary Shelley is well-known for her many notable associations—her mother, early feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft; her father, political philospher William Godwin; and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, her husband— as well as her own writing, particularly Frankenstein. Lesser known, and mostly forgotten until a resurgence of interest in her work, and that of other women writers, emerged in the late 20th century, is The Last Man, published in 1826, one of the earliest works of modern apaocalyptic fiction. Here, an audio excerpt from Librivox, from The Last Man. The full text is available at
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Segment 2 | Archival Audio: "Ayn Rand and Objectivism (1959)"
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Segment 2 | Archival Audio: "The Eisenhower Doctrine: January 5, l957"
This speech to Congress by President Dwight D. Eisenhower marks a major episode in the Cold War and enunciates the policy that became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. Prompted, in part, by the Suez Crisis of 1956, which Eisenhower believed opened the door to increasing Soviet influence in the Middle East, the Doctrine authorized the commitment of US forces "to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against overt armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism." (http://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/EisenhowerDoctrine.)
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This week we explore how guns, and attitudes toward them, has changed over time. From Backstory: "The US has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. How did this come to be? Was America’s “gun culture” present from the very beginning?
On this episode, the History Guys look at who has had access to guns in the U.S., and what those guns have meant to the people who have owned them. They also consider the importance of guns at the time the Second Amendment was drafted, and explore the central role government has played in the dissemination of firearms to citizens."
Segment 2 | Archival Audio: " The Rifleman"
This audio clip, with the signature gunshots in the opening credits, is from the video of the "Rifleman," found at Archive.org:
"The Rifleman was an American Western television program that ran on ABC, from September 30th, 1958 to April 8th, 1963. It was a production of Four Star Television.
Chuck Connors starred as The Rifleman, named Lucas McCain, a widower and a Union veteran of the Civil War (lieutenant in the 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment), and a homesteader. McCain and his son, Mark (Johnny Crawford) lived on a ranch outside the fictitious town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The series was set in the 1880's and the various episodes promoted fair play toward one's opponents, neighborliness, equal rights and the need to use violence in a highly controlled manner." ~ ~ ~ ~
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"The 100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Third Party Bid to be President" is a joint production of Prairie Public Broadcasting of North Dakota and the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. Program Description: "2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose bid to be president. This program looks back at Roosevelt's career and how the issues he raised in the 1912 presidential campaign are still at the center of today's political debates. Roosevelt scholar Clay Jenkinson (known to some for "The Thomas Jefferson Hour") is featured as are excerpts from 4 audio pieces recorded 1912 campaign speeches." Segment 2 | "A FAIR CHANCE: Stories from Montana's History of Homesteading."
"A Fair Chance," produced by Clay Scott, is a 'special half-hour edition of the weekly radio series Mountain West Voices that examines the remarkable legacy of homesteading in Montana. Abraham Lincoln,prior to the passage of the Homestead Act in 1862, argued that government should serve 'to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial burdens from all shoulders, and to give everyone an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.' 150 years later, "A Fair Chance" takes a look at what the homestead movement meant for Montana. From homesteaders and their descendants listeners will hear stories of hardship and unbearable loneliness, as well as pride, perseverance, and the exhilaration that comes with a fresh start in life. Author Ivan Doig shares his memories of the Meagher County homesteads of his childhood. "A Fair Chance" also introduces listeners to the extraordinary history of the tens of thousands of single women homesteaders who shaped the history of our state."
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In October of 1962, a U.S. military jet photographed strategic military missles deployed in Cuba, by the Soviets. The next 13 days marked a major crisis in the Presidency of John F. Kennedy and in Cold War history. Backstory explores this episode and earlier milestones in Cuba-US history: "In this episode, we consider the outsized influence that Cuba has had throughout American history. Over the course of the hour, the History Guys consider several major episodes in US-Cuba relations, including the filibustering expeditions of the 19th century, the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980. In each case, they learn that the episode's standard storyline gets a whole lot more interesting if you dial its starting point back in time."
Segment 2 | Archival Audio: "Jimmy Carter on Afghanistan."
There were many flash points during the Cold War before the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended. In this January 4, 1980 speech Jimmy Carter outlined the threat to regional stability presented by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and set forth the economic and political sanctions he was putting in place against the Soviet Union. The full text of the published speech is at the Miller Center, University of Virginia and a video excerpt on You Tube, courtesy of the
Miller Center and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.
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From Backstory: "150 years ago this month, (September) President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. In it, he announced that on January 1, all slaves in rebellious states would be "then, thenceforward, and forever free." Today, Lincoln is remembered as "The Great Emancipator," but the story is much more complicated.
On this episode, the History Guys set out to understand the way Americans thought about emancipation in 1862, and reflect on the ways its meanings have shifted since then. Along the way, they make stops at the Emancipation Memorial in Washington D.C., the Civil War centennial commemorations in the height of the Civil Rights Era, and the former capital of the Confederacy. And they hear the voices of former slaves themselves, remembering their first experiences of freedom."
Segment 2 | Archival Audio: "Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939"
This audio, from the National Archives, is from the 1939 NBC broadcast ofnoted singer Marian Anderson's Easter Sunday concert from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on April 9th. Anderson, who had performed in concert in major venues in the US and Europe, was scheduled to perform in Washington DC in Constitution Hall. The Daughters of the American Revolution, after learning that the audience would be integrated, refused permission for Anderson to perform. Several references at the Library of Congress offer more details, including Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation from the DAR and the involvement of the NAACP. Additional images at University of Pennsylvania Library exhibitions and in this brief You Tube video clip,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF9Quk0QhSE, from the UCLA Film and Television Archive's "Hearst Metrotone News Collection."
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