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October 28, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on October 28th 2009 1951 - The Rise of Levittown Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on...
October 21, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on October 21st 2009 at AS220 1972 - Nixon visits People's Republic of China What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of 'Chicken'...the US and China; partners or enablers? The relationship...
October 14, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on October 14th 2009 at AS220 1932 -The Highlander Center opens its doors First door-to-door, now e-mail-to-email, will community organizing have the same power in a virtual community? How will we organize for change in...
October 7, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on October 7th 2009 1993 - The creation of Hillary Clinton's Taskforce on Healthcare Is the patient stable, improving, or failing? What are the chances of survival for a nation divided on health reform? As...
May 20, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on May 20th 2009 1961 - JFK Calls for the Moon! President Kennedy called for a Moon Landing. President Obama wants a 'Green' Nation. Are solar panels and wind turbines as exciting as 'One Giant...
May 13, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on May 13th 2009 1937 - The Flint, Michigan United Auto Workers Sit-In Banks, Auto and Insurance Companies bailed out, lay-offs abound and yet...Where's the anger of the past? The Auto Industry, unions and the...
May 6, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on May 6th 2009 1949 - Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced What does it mean to 'fail' in America? Have we failed or has the 'American Dream' proven to be hollow? Is...
April 29, 2009
Recorded live at AS220 on April 29th 2009 1933 - The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps Did building dams, planting trees and taking the boys from the city help end a depression or were we then, as now,...
October 29, 2008
Recorded live at AS220 on October 29th 2008 2000 - U.S. Census allows individuals to identify themselves as mixed-race Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, and their American stories -- how checking multiple boxes on a survey helped redefine race in...
October 15, 2008
Recorded live at AS220 on October 15th 2008 1920 - Prolific African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux releases Within Our Gates Oscar Micheaux is considered the most prolific Black filmmaker in the history of American cinema, a title he earned by...
October 8, 2008
Recorded live at AS220 on October 22nd 2008 1957 - Dissent magazine publishes Norman Mailer's "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" What's Black? What's White? What's Italian? What's Jewish? Are race and ethnicity a dance anyone can...
October 5, 2008
Recorded live at AS220 on October 1st 2008 1910 - Racist biologist Charles Davenport creates the Eugenic Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory An American prelude to Hitler or to the Human Genome Project...perhaps both? Eugenics was a...
October 31, 2007
Recorded live at AS220 on October 31st 2007 1979 - Farmer's Tractorcade into Washington D.C. In 1979, the American Agricultural Movement led 6,000 farmers and their tractors into Washington, D.C. to lobby for changes in US farm policies. What...
October 24, 2007
Recorded live at AS220 on October 24th 2007 1917 - Marcel Duchamp Submits Fountain When the Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp, submitted a signed urinal to the Society of Independent Artists, entitled Fountain, in 1917, the work was accepted after...
October 17, 2007
Recorded live at AS220 on October 17th 2007 1987 - Prozac Introduced to the Market by Eli Lilly The United States Food and Drug Association approved the prescription anti-depressant medication, Prozac, in 1987, changing the way Americans view the...
October 10, 2007
Recorded live at AS220 on October 10th 2007 1964 - Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali After winning the heavyweight championship in 1964, Cassius Clay publicly changed his name to Muhammad Ali and revealed that he was...
October 11, 2006
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's anti-interventionist shift in Central and South America aimed to ease authoritarian relations. Today, with Latin-American leaders thumbing their noses at US aid, it's not just the US deciding who's friend or foe. *Ricardo Hausmann, Director of...
October 4, 2006
Twenty-five million people died of the Spanish flu, but few recall the details of the pandemic today. With the advent of avian flu come new fears and new preparedness efforts, but how much concern is too much-or not enough?...
Recorded live at AS220 on October 7th 2009 1993 - The creation of Hillary Clinton's Taskforce on Healthcare Is the patient stable, improving, or failing? What are the chances of survival for a nation divided on health reform? As...
Recorded live at AS220 on October 17th 2007 1987 - Prozac Introduced to the Market by Eli Lilly The United States Food and Drug Association approved the prescription anti-depressant medication, Prozac, in 1987, changing the way Americans view the...