Racial Politics and War
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the evolution of attitudes towards African-Americans in the United States, as well as the growth of the civil rights movement. Professor Jacobson links both in part to chang...
Post World War II Labor Market, The
Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about the shifting labor market in the years following World War II. "Most of the servicemen who had gone abroad...if they had had jobs in the private sector before they left were, in most cases, guaranteed a ...
Most Significant Events Covered
Television news correspondent, presidential advisor and university professor Marvin Kalb looks back over his years as a network news correspondent and talks about the most significant events and people that he covered. The Cuban Missile Crisis is fi...
An End to Exclusion: The Hart-Celler Act of 1965
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the factors that led to the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. Professor Jacobson explains that this legislation is the basis of current immigration law in the United States, and mark...
United States and Russia During the Cold War, The
Television news correspondent, presidential advisor and university professor Marvin Kalb talks about U.S. attitudes towards Russia during the Cold War. "Did we give the Russians a fair shake? Yes, in a strategic sense but, in a cultural sense, not a...