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Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 58:24
Part Two - Generational discussion with author Colin Woodard
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 29:00
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
During the summer of 1947, Richard works for the Dress Joint Board in New York City’s Garment District. From his co-workers Richard learns more abo...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 16:11
Artistic Director Anita Monga talks the context of German Expressionism, the birth of celebrity culture, and why Buster Keaton will always be cont...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 18:40
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 2
Part III in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show, it's the life and legacy of American folklorist Alan Lomax and how his calling to "record the world" changed the course of t...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WCAI / WNAN, KDRP Community Radio, KPVL and more
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 29:10
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 25:00
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 13:25
Horace Hollister, the devoted choirmaster and youth leader, helps Richard break through the wall of established social cliques at Madison Avenue. R...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 17:42
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 21:38
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 18:01
Tuba, banjo, flute and even bagpipes have all found their places in jazz, and how good they sound might just surprise you.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, Spokane Public Radio, KDRP Community Radio, WNCU and more
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
