UC Press author Sam Walker said he was aiming to go into academia when he landed a job with the federal government as historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “For …
Read More >There are 27 million slaves in the world today, with Iceland and Greenland the only two countries with no known cases of slavery, says Kevin Bales in this inspiring TED Conference talk …
Read More >When most people think about about government funding, the arts are probably not the first thing to come to mind. Arts funding is often shunted aside in favor of other priorities, and …
Read More >Hundreds of millions of people watch World Cup soccer around the world, making it not just a game, but an international arena. “Every soccer game is an amazing story….It’s of such importance …
Read More >Tavis Smiley recently interviewed both Judith A. Carney, coauthor of In the Shadow of Slavery, and Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, on his Public Radio International show. Asked about the …
Read More >On his blog Media Myth Alert yesterday, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, addressed the media-driven myth that Edward R. Murrow’s …
Read More >When Jeffrey Race boarded a ship to Vietnam in 1965, he was not planning to write the ultimate resource on the Vietnamese conflict. As he notes in a recent article in Small …
Read More >In this post, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, debunks the “Cronkite Moment”, an anecdote widely repeated as an example of …
Read More >In an interview today on Democracy Now!, Steven Hill, author of Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, spoke about fundamental differences between the European …
Read More >by Steven Hill, author of Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age and Director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation Picture …
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