Oscar Brand

The Star Spangled Banner turns 200 this month. To commemorate, the inimitable Oscar Brand explains in words and music its origins from a sheep-shearing song to the national anthem.

Duck and cover!

Remember rationing?

Join the Archives department in celebrating the life of Doc Watson with this rare interview and performance at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. 

Episode 8 explores the process of automation and examines the effects it has had on work in America. It focuses on two industries--shipping and printing--to illustrate how automation has changed the modern workplace. Both the International Typographical Union and the International Longshoreman's Association anticipated the changes that were to come, ...

The seventh episode of New Yorkers at Work investigates the problems facing clerical workers, particularly female office workers. The women interviewed recount their experiences in jobs with little opportunity for advancement, the expectations made of them as women and the stereotypes they faced, and the difficulties in organizing their industry. ...

This episode of New Yorkers at Work focuses on the unusual position of public sector workers and their unions. Teachers, welfare case workers, dentists, public sector union officials, and others talk about their struggles to earn the right to collective bargaining, the 1975 fiscal crisis, and their troubled relationships with ...

In this episode of New Yorkers at Work, minorities and women discuss the difficulties they have faced in finding jobs and receiving equal treatment and equal pay. The program begins with minorities returning from war to be confronted with prejudice and with women facing their own limited options.
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The fourth episode of New Yorkers at Work focuses on the gradually diminishing influence of communism and the left-wing in the AFL-CIO during the beginnings of the cold war. Narrators Martha Greenhouse and Frederick O'Neal begin the episode with a lengthy disclaimer qualifying the discussion and clarifying the episode's political ...

The third episode of New Yorkers at Work delves into the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) out of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in the 1930s. Men and women who participated in unions during the era recall the appalling working conditions, the rampant unemployment, the lack ...

Various men and women who came to the United States fleeing oppression, seeking opportunity, or both, describe their lives as workers in America.

In this first part of New Yorkers at Work, various men and women discuss their experiences working in skilled trades that over time became increasingly mechanized, unskilled labor, concentrating in particular on the plight of painters. They also describe changes in the organization of labor, the "beerzha" labor markets of ...

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Musical quiz show with the strangely sarcastic John Savage. The panelists include Walter Hendl, former Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic; Vernon Duke, composer of Cabin in the Sky and ...

WNYC's 'shoeless troubadour' doing what he does best.