United Nations
The United Nations was established October 24th, 1945, and it is fitting that this week Talking History should air an interview with Stephen Schlesinger. Schlesinger is the Director of the World Policy Institute and the author of Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nation. Airdate: October 24, 2005.
U.S. Grand Strategy and the Cold War
Our final show--while programming is suspended pending further funding--features a conversation with guest Melvyn Leffler and host Bryan Le Beau. Leffler spoke to Bryan Le Beau while attending a Cold War conference in Kansas City in March 2006. Their discussion focused on Leffler’s conference paper, titled: "Truman, US Grand Strategy, and the Cold War, 1945-1952." Leffler is a professor of history at the University Virginia. Airdate: June 26, 2006.
Einstein
Einstein's reputation as a genius rests to a large extent on his publication of five major papers in 1905. Talking History marked the centennial by taking up the subject of those papers--and the rest of Albert Einstein's life--with Assistant Professor of Physics, at the University of Missouri Kansas City, Elizabeth Stoddard. The program originally aired the week of April 18th, 2005. Airdate: August 8, 2005.
Cold War, Cool Medium
The Cold War was a period of international, fear and anxiety. And, much of the Cold War was covered on television literally brought into the homes of millions of Americans. Our guest this week, Thomas Doherty, the author of Cold War, Cool Medium, examines one aspect of that phenomenon, television and McCarthyism with Talking History's Linna Place . Airdate: June 13, 2005.
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