Monday, July 24, 2006

Scholarship - C-SPAN Audio

If you find yourself bored at work and have the ability to listen to music via the internet, I suggest checking out the radio programs on the site below. There are HOURS of interviews with authors & politicians about things they are experts on...I am learning about U.S. Grant now.

http://www.booktv.org/watch/


Here are just a few of the plethora of topics/subjects on the site:

July 23Ron Steinman, Women in Vietnam: The Oral History
July 16Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
July 8Jeffrey Richelson, Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea
July 2Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
June 24Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
June 172006 Printers Row: Jonathan Alter "The Defining Moment"
June 11Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss, Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
June 4Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
May 27William Hogeland, The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
July 10Melanie Randolph Miller, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris & the French Revolution
July 2Les Standiford, Meet You In Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America

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