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Hamilton and Jefferson: a founding rivalry

Hamilton and Jefferson: a founding rivalry

That a musical about Alexander Hamilton would be such a popular success came as a surprise to nearly everyone.

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APM documentary: 'Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches'

APM documentary: 'Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches'

Public speech making has played a powerful role in the long struggle by African Americans for equal rights. This documentary highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders. Their impassioned, eloquent words continue to affect the ideas of a nation and the direction of history.

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APM Reports documentary, Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal

APM Reports documentary, Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal

To preview Labor Day, you'll hear an APM Reports/American RadioWorks documentary about jobs and public works programs during the 1930's, called "Bridge to Somewhere: Lessons from the New Deal." It was produced in 2009 by Catherine Winter.

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Douglas Brinkley on the Roosevelts and the National Parks

Douglas Brinkley on the Roosevelts and the National Parks

We mark today's centennial of the National Park Service with a talk by historian Douglas Brinkley, who has written books about the two presidents he thinks have had the biggest impact on conservation in America: Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR said, "there's nothing more American than the National Parks."

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Live at National Press Club: National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis

Live at National Press Club: National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis

The National Park Service is 100 years old this month, and Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis talks about what many have called "America's best idea." President Franklin Roosevelt said "there is nothing so American as our national parks" and they show that "the country belongs to the people."

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Bryan Stevenson on race and history

Aspen Ideas Festival: Bryan Stevenson on race and history

Bryan Stevenson calls for a new study of racial history and says the great evil of American slavery wasn't involuntary servitude, it was the narrative of racial differences that we created to sustain it. He believes this led to terrorism, then segregation, and now a presumption of "dangerousness and guilt."

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