"May You Live in Interesting Times" - Chinese Curse? Quote or No Quote?
We are living in interesting times. But is “may you live in interesting times” actually an old Chinese curse, or is the history of the saying more complicated? We take you from Chinese folk tales in 1...
21 Apr 20204min
Fireside Chat on the WPA and SSA: FDR Friday!
Today’s FDR Friday is the 1935 Fireside Chat on the Works Relief Program and Social Security Act. In one Fireside Chat in 1935 President Roosevelt laid out the plans for two of the largest and longest...
17 Apr 202031min
Spanish Civil War Part 2
Find out why the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was one of the most significant conflicts of the 20th Century, and why it's been overlooked. Professor Phil Nash relates the course of the war and its co...
14 Apr 202047min
FDR's Fireside Chat 1 - Banking
FDR's first Fireside Chat was about banking. He gave it on March 12th 1933, after the first steps were taken to try to stabilize the American banking system in the first days after his inauguration. S...
13 Apr 202015min
1964 US Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking
Professor Sarah Milov explains the political and medical environments in which the 1964 US Surgeon General’s Report on dangers of smoking appeared in 1964. In addition to the medical and scientific co...
9 Apr 202025min
Spanish Civil War part 1
Find out why the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was one of the most significant conflicts of the 20th Century, and why it's been overlooked. Professor Phil Nash explains the background and the first ha...
7 Apr 202041min
Maya Angelou, "A Bird…Sings Because It Has a Song." Quote or No Quote
Wednesday Wisdom! The phrase and sentiment, "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song," is one of the best-known expressions of the intrinsic nature of art and beau...
1 Apr 20205min
FDR's Fireside Chats
Are you wondering what it was like when a President addressed the nation competently at a time of crisis and uncertainty? Professor Phil Nash enlightens us about FDR's “Fireside Chats” from the 1930s ...
31 Mars 20201h 14min
