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William Lloyd Garrison: Words of Thunder
Deval Patrick
August 6, 2005
01:56:24
This bicentennial celebration, co-presented by the Museum of Afro-American History and the Boston Public Library, includes The Massachusetts 54th Regiment and musical performances by Vivian Cooley-Collier, Guy Peartree, and the Studio Singers of the Eliot Congregational Church of Roxbury.
Vietnam War Remembered
Vietnam War Remembered
Noam Chomsky
April 30, 2005
01:53:55
To commemorate the anniversary of the official end of the war in Vietnam, Ngo Vinh Long, Noam Chomsky and Linda Pinkow share their current perspectives on the American involvement in Vietnam.
MCC Keynote Address: New Voices, Changing Experiences
W. Richard West Jr.
March 28, 2005
00:48:40
W. Richard West Jr. discusses the history of Massachusetts' cultural leaders, who have always been a resourceful, committed, and resilient lot.
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How the War of Resistance to Japan Made and Unmade China
Rana Mitter
March 14, 2005
01:15:07
Rana Mitter, professor of Chinese Studies at Oxford University, provides a rough sketch of the events of the Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945) and illustrates its human cost as glimpsed in the firsthand accounts of Chinese journalist Du Zhongyuan.
Jewish Heritage on Beacon Hill
Ellen Smith
February 17, 2005
00:49:28
Ellen Smith, lecturer in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, discusses the history of Jewish immigration in Boston. Boston's first Jewish congregation established a synagogue in the South End in 1852.
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Alexis Dudden: Japan's Colonization of Korea
Alexis Dudden
February 7, 2005
01:04:39
Alexis Dudden is a professor specializing in modern Korean and Japanese history at Connecticut College. This talk is drawn from her book Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.
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AIDS: Learning From the Past, Looking Towards the Future
Pride Chigwedere
December 3, 2004
00:58:06
As a way of marking World AIDS Day on December 1st, the Museum of Science welcomes clinician and researcher Pride Chigwedere from Zimbabwe to comment on the past two decades of international efforts to stem the spread of AIDS.
Boston Unbound: Challenges for the 21st Century
Paul S. Grogan
January 4, 2004
01:28:49
In this lecture, journalists Neal Pierce and Curtis Johnson tackle one question: What are the Boston region's most critical challenges for the 21st Century? Pierce and Johnson provide an overview of their findings here and take audience questions.