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An interview with Marc C. Johnson, author of Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate. The book highlights two Senate leaders whose commitment to bipartisanship lead to the passage of groundbreaking legislation, even in tumultuous times.
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Ty Seidule's book, Robert E Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, offers a personal challenge to the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy, and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.
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The Bethel Missionary Baptist Church has been around for more than 100 years and is now the first property to be added to the National Register of Historic Places under African American Civil Rights in Idaho.
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An interview with Amy Gajda, author of Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy. The book is an important primer for today’s privacy wars - the surprising history of the right to privacy, and its battle against the public’s right to know.
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The Mountain West is home to dozens of far-right extremist groups. In the wake of the U.S. Capitol riots on January 6, lawmakers are mulling how to…
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This is an encore presentation.On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Union at England’s Cambridge University to witness a historic…
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This encore program was originally broadcast in November, 2016.In this election season, we’re discussing the history of voting rights with Michael…
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Fifty years after he was assassinated at age 39, Malcolm X remains a controversial and somewhat mysterious figure. During his short but eventful life, he…
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Belonging is a fundamental human need. Equally strong is the drive to exclude. This is what Seattle University School of Law professor Sara Rankin calls…
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For six years Monica Hopkins has been one of Idaho’s top civil rights campaigners as head of the ACLU of Idaho. Now Hopkins is leaving the state to take…