Roundup: Audio/Video History
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The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo [audio 58 minutes 16 seconds]
Leahy Rubs Sessions' Nose in Civil War Defeat [video 1 minute, 13 seconds]
UK child migrants apology planned [video 1 minute, 29 seconds]
Terra Cotta Warriors March Through Washington [audio 4 minutes 58 seconds]
WWI-Era Mass Grave Rediscovered In France [audio 3 minutes 47 seconds]
Corruption Mars Romania's Post-Communist Progress [audio 7 minutes 48 seconds]
HPV and Cervical Cancer: 25 Years from Discovery to Vaccine [video 58 minutes 30 seconds]
How Did Your Folks Look Before They Were Parents? [audio 3 minutes 48 seconds]
Remembering A Pioneering Smoke Jumper [audio 4 minutes 32 seconds]
Coming Home: A History of War Veterans [audio 54 minutes 56 seconds]
"The Night The Wall Fell: Freedom, Fatherhood Collide" [audio 7 min 46 sec[
"WWII Vet: Happy To Leave 'Worst Place You Can Be'" [audio 2 min 8 sec[
"Berlin Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of Wall's Fall" [audio 2 min 47 sec]
"Veterans' Voices: Returning Home From The Gulf War" [audio 2 min 28 sec]
Friday, November 20, 2009
The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo [audio 58 minutes 16 seconds]
Source: Talking History (11-12-09)
Yesterday was Veterans Day. Today, we bring you Peabody Award-winning producer Helen Borten's superb documentary on the last year of World War II in the Pacific. Here is her description of the piece: "Eugene "Bud" Clark, a pint-sized scrapper from Macon, GA, mowed down Banzai warriors, watched mass suicide on Saipan, and was severely wounded on Iwo Jima. Howard Terry was traumatized by his accidental killing of an Okinawan boy, returned home angry, belligerent and unable to hold a job. Anthony Daddato lost his best friend to friendly fire,contracted dengue fever,malaria and tuberculosis, and spent three embittered years in hospitals before a feisty nun's advice changed his outlook. Giles McCoy went down with the Indianapolis in one of the worst naval disasters in history. These are just a few of the voices in "The Silent Generation", a one-hour documentary that follows more than a score of men through the definitive year of their lives. Men from all walks of life and all corners of the nation. Men who melted quietly back into civilian life and kept silent for decades. Men who, as time grows short, have been moved to speak with unflinching honesty of events that changed them forever. Their memories are not for the faint-hearted. Here is a view of war from the foxhole. A side of war as relevant today as in 1945. To listen is to understand why they, like tens of thousands of others, could not speak for so long. "The Silent Generation" closes with their unblinking, often wrenching remarks on how combat later affected their attitudes, identity and everyday lives. Producer/Narrator Borten knits their stories into a chronological whole, adding archival newscasts, live reports from the battlefield, and little-known historical details that, together with these unforgettable stories, bring a momentous, searingly brutal chapter in history to life."
Leahy Rubs Sessions' Nose in Civil War Defeat [video 1 minute, 13 seconds]
Source: Talking Points Memo (11-18-09)
Sen. Leahy rubs Sen. Sessions' nose in South's Civil War defeat.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Sweden sends back Maori remains [video 48 seconds]
Source: BBC (11-18-09)
Officials from two museums in Sweden have handed over the remains of five indigenous Maori people to their New Zealand counterparts.
The remains include one almost complete skeleton, a skull, and three other skeleton parts.
The ceremony was held at the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg.
Museums across Europe have been repatriating human remains taken from indigenous burial grounds during colonial times.
Monday, November 16, 2009
UK child migrants apology planned [video 1 minute, 29 seconds]
Source: BBC (11-15-09)
Child migration historian Dr Stephen Constantine says that the Child Migrants Programme was "considered beneficial" at the time but was a serious "misjudgement".
Gordon Brown is to apologise for the UK's role in sending thousands of its children to former colonies in the 20th century.
The Child Migrants Programme - which ended just 40 years ago - poor children were sent to a "better life" in Australia, Canada and elsewhere.
But many were abused and ended up in institutions or as labourers on farms.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Terra Cotta Warriors March Through Washington [audio 4 minutes 58 seconds]
Source: NPR - All Things Considered (11-15-09)
In 1974, a group of farmers digging a well in central China stumbled upon a buried figure. It turned out to be one of an estimated 7,000 life-sized terra cotta warriors in an underground tomb complex. The warriors and a host of other figures were created for China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. Host Guy Raz drops by the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., to see an exhibit of the figures.
WWI-Era Mass Grave Rediscovered In France [audio 3 minutes 47 seconds]
Source: NPR - All Things Considered (11-15-09)
About 7,000 British and Australian soldiers died in the muddy fields around the French village of Fromelles during the first World War. A mass grave of 250 of those killed in 1916 was recently found near the town. Experts are now trying to identify the bodies and prepare them for burial in a new war cemetery in the heart of Fromelles.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Corruption Mars Romania's Post-Communist Progress [audio 7 minutes 48 seconds]
Source: NPR - Morning Edition Thursday (11-12-09)
The uprisings that marked the end of communism in Eastern Europe two decades ago were largely peaceful in every country except the last regime to fall: Romania. Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's iron-fisted rule ended in a bloody revolt that left more than 1,000 Romanians dead.
Today, the country is a member of the European Union, with a solid economy and a passionate, if hectic, democratic life. But Romania continues to be dogged by rampant corruption that some believe is threatening the country's future.
HPV and Cervical Cancer: 25 Years from Discovery to Vaccine [video 58 minutes 30 seconds]
Source: The Research Channel (4-1-08)
Dr. Denise Galloway, Head of the Cancer Biology program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses her investigation into the natural history of HPV, a virus that has the potential to lead to cancer in “HPV and Cervical Cancer: 25 Years from Discovery to Vaccine.”
How Did Your Folks Look Before They Were Parents? [audio 3 minutes 48 seconds]
Source: NPR - All Things Considered (11-12-09)
Eliot Glazer, the creator of the popular photo blog myparentswereawesome.com, speaks to host Michele Norris about his blog's mission to highlight the time "before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts," when parents "were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward and super-awesome."
Remembering A Pioneering Smoke Jumper [audio 4 minutes 32 seconds]
Source: NPR - All Things Considered (11-12-09)
Laird Robinson, a former smoke jumper, talks to Melissa Block about Earl Cooley, who was with the first National Forest team that jumped into a fire in 1940. Cooley died Monday at 98. Smoke jumpers are elite teams who fly out over raging wildfires in the West, parachute down into the burning forests and battle the flames until they're under control.
Friday, November 13, 2009
The Opium Wars [audio 25 minutes 37 seconds]
Source: Talking History (11-5-09)
This segment comes to us from the monthly series History Counts, produced by Ken MacDermotRoe and Bonnie MacDermotRoe. The show originates at Pacifica affiliate WPKN in Bridgeport, CT. In this episode, Ken MacDermotRoe interviews Frank Sanello, author of The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another. They discuss the two 19th century wars that Britain (and other European nations) fought to "compel China to import opium. While opium addiction devastated China, British and American merchants reaped enormous profits." For more information on the Opium Wars, see Sanello's book; for a brief on-line overview of the two wars, see: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/opiumwars/opiumwars1.html. For information about History Counts, go to: www.historycounts.org.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Coming Home: A History of War Veterans [audio 54 minutes 56 seconds]
Source: BackStory - with the American History Guys (11-9-09)
Between the global recession and the swine flu pandemic, news about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has become scanty-at-best. What little coverage there is tends to focus on developments overseas. In this Veterans' Day special, the History Guys look at what happens when vets return home. Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Frank Earnest makes a case for separating the politics of war from our remembrance of its veterans. Historian Rebecca Jo Plant discusses the changing expectations for veterans’ wives and mothers. And psychologist Ed Tick talks about PTSD in the pre-psychological age
The Decade in Seven Minutes [video 6 minutes 52 seconds]
Source: Newsweek (11-10-09)
NEWSWEEK rewinds the first 10 years of the new century, reminding you of the best, worst, and unforgettable moments.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
"92 Historical Interviews You Can Watch on YouTube"
Source: Accredited Online Colleges (11-4-09)
Probably more widely known for hosting the viral videos that show up in mass emails, YouTube is actually an excellent source for truly useful videos as well. This list of 92 historical interviews attests to that fact. Browse through this collection to find video interviews from both the past and more recent time. Some of these interviews document specific eras such as interviews with those involved in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, while some are more recent interviews discussing the past, as when Walter Cronkite relates his news reporting when the first man walked on the moon. Still other interviews document history in the making, with current figures in academia, politics, business, and more sharing their knowledge.
"The Night The Wall Fell: Freedom, Fatherhood Collide" [audio 7 min 46 sec[
Source: NPR Morning Edition (11-9-09)
Germans are celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall that divided the city and served as the symbol of a Europe divided between communist East and democratic West.
The spark that led to the wall's fall happened largely by accident. Weeks of mass protests had put enormous pressure on the East German communists to ease travel restrictions, a key demand by demonstrators.
At a press conference on Nov. 9, 1989, an official of the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, announced — prematurely and mistakenly — that visa restrictions would be eased effective immediately.
"Vietnam Vet Recalls Service" [audio 2 min 7 sec]
Source: NPR Morning Edition (11-11-09)
Retired Army Lt. Col. Michael Sternfeld, 62, is an Amtrak conductor at Washington's Union Station. Many of his passengers don't know that he served as a sergeant in Vietnam. Years later, he fought as an Army reservist in the Gulf War, and in 2005 he was back with the Army in Iraq, where he injured his left leg.
"WWII Vet: Happy To Leave 'Worst Place You Can Be'" [audio 2 min 8 sec[
Source: NPR Morning Edition (11-11-09)
This Veterans Day, we're hearing from some of those who served in America's wars. Walter Kush is hale and healthy today at 86, but he was just a teenager in World War II.
"Berlin Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of Wall's Fall" [audio 2 min 47 sec]
Source: NPR All Things Considered (11-9-09)
Ceremonies and celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall are taking place in that city today, the 20th anniversary of the day the wall was breached. World leaders joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel in walking through the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin, crossing the line where the wall once divided the city. Michele Norris talks to NPR's Eric Westervelt, reporting from the German capital.
"Voices Of Revolution: Romania" [audio 3 min 18 sec]
Source: NPR All Things Considered (11-10-09)
All this week, we hear firsthand accounts of the end of communism in Eastern Europe 20 years ago in our series Voices from a Revolution. Today, we hear a voice from Romania — Mircea Dinescu — a dissident poet and writer who helped storm the state-run TV station, and the man who announced live on air that "the dictator has fled!"
"Veterans' Voices: Returning Home From The Gulf War" [audio 2 min 28 sec]
Source: NPR All Things Considered (11-11-09)
Charles Sheehan-Miles was a tank loader in the Gulf War, engaged in combat in the 24th Division. He had a hard time coming back to civilian life. How do you answer, he wonders, when someone asks, "How was it?" Sheehan-Miles wrote a fictionalized account of his time in the Gulf, called Prayer At Rumayla, to give some indication.
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