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Encarta Africana: From Du Bois to John Coltrane
February 13, 2003
Henry Louis Gates Jr. director, Du Bois Institute, Harvard

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses the comprehensive project, Encarta Africana.

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African | Human Rights | African American | Profiles | Non-Fiction
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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and an expert panel discuss workplace conditions that can greatly affect employees' mental health and on-the-job productivity.
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00:49:23
Prioleau Alexander tells what it was like when he walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive, seeking a life. His jobs included pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, construction worker, ER tech, fast food jockey, and even cowboy on a Montana dude ranch.
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Yaron Brook: Why the Forward Strategy of Freedom Had to Fail
Yaron Brook
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As an expert on foreign policy and the Middle East, Yaron Brook is interviewed for his answers to a range of questions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the war in Iraq, the Iranian threat and Totalitarian Islam and terrorism.
Writing on the Walls: American Prison Writing
H. Bruce Franklin
01:40:59
PEN New England's Freedom-to-Write (FTW) Committee, and the Cambridge Forum, host Writing on the Walls, a panel discussion about writing in, from, and about American prisons.
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Writers on War
Sean Hemingway
01:26:41
Sean Hemingway, who has just edited a collection of his grandfather's writings titled Hemingway on War, shares his insights with Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory, and James Webb, author of the acclaimed Vietnam novel, Fields of Fire.
Writers Among Us: Seth Jacobs
Seth Jacobs
01:06:37
Seth Jacobs argues that a midcentury religious revival in America, as well as policymakers' racist perceptions of Asians, led the United States to support the disastrous, autocratic Diem regime in South Viet Nam.
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Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Crown (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages
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Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Vintage (1995)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
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Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (2003)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages
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