Q: Our congregation recently had a big fight, and we need to heal. How can we do that? Feelings are still very strong—people are avoiding coming to services—but some don't want to talk about it ...

Bumper and Tease: NARRATOR: Now, back to Do You Speak American? Tommy Taylor: (singing) Had a piece of pie, had a piece of pudding, well I give it all away to the other side of goodin’. NARRATOR: Down ...

QUESTION: How did African Americans fare during the Great Depression and under the New Deal? WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were ...

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...

He is the author of the prize-winning Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. He is the editor of Uncommon Ground: ...

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Narrator: It is a story brought to life by their own words, and those of the ordinary men and women who have changed the course of history. In eye witness accounts soldiers ascribe the birth of an ...

He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945, which discusses how the New Deal redressed income and job insecurity after the ...

Wright brothers fly first motorized plane 1903 Photo: Wright Brothers' first flight Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death ...

QUESTION: Please explain your role in the various studies of "Middletown" [Muncie, Indiana]. HOWARD BAHR: On two Middletown surveys, I was one of two field supervisors, or co-investigators, officially ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is a Senator from New York from 1977 to 2001. He was a member of the Cabinet or sub-Cabinet of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. He was Ambassador to India from ...

QUESTION: Tell us a little bit about when Robert and Helen Lynd came to Muncie, Indiana to begin work on what would become the Middletown study. BRUCE GEELHOED: Lynd came to Muncie in the 1920's with ...