america
January 2024
Is the American Century Over?
Joseph Nye shares his memories of living through the American century and discusses the future of America’s role on the international stage.
August 2021
N***er: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Randall Kennedy takes on not just the N-word word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with references that extend from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock and the O. J. Simpson trial.
February 1999
I’ll Make Me a World
Filmmaker and co-executive producer of the PBS television series, I’ll Make Me A World: A Century of African-American Arts, Sam Pollard talks about his dedication to chronicling the Black experience in America.
March 2006
Epic Journeys of Freedom
Historian Cassandra Pybus traces the lives of the runaway slaves who absorbed the dreams of liberty from their masters during the American Revolution and fled to the British to find freedom.
May 1987
Eyes on the Prize
Henry Hampton, the driving force behind Eyes on the Prize and Blackside, speaks in 1987 at Cambridge Forum about his vision of the remarkable human drama that was the Civil Rights Movement.
June 2003
Slavery and the Invention of America
Civil rights activist Byron Rushing traces the theme of colonial domination and slavery in the shaping of America’s history and civilization, beginning with the “founding” of a country that was already known to its original inhabitants, the native Americans.
July 2003
Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and explores issues of race, arguing that America has been brown since its inception.