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New York City Panorama. Illustration by Edward Burckhardt, 1842-1845. (Collection New York Historical Society)Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
Was New York the northernmost city of the Confederacy? On our next program, we’ll check out the new exhibit at the New York Historical Society that argues New York was practically a Southern city during, and after, the Civil War. Also, what the Iraq Study Group report calls for with the Arab/Israeli conflict.
Israel and Iraq
Yossi Beilin, leader of Israel's left-wing Meretz Party, former Israeli Justice Minister and a key architect of the Oslo Accords
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David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee
- what the Iraq Study Group recommends for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Speaking of Peace
Shimon Malka, co-director, All for Peace Radio, East Jerusalem
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Vladimir Bratic, assitant professor of Communications at Hollins University
- discuss conflict mediation through radio programming
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
Richard Rabinowitz, president of the American History Workshop, writer and
curator of New York Divided at The New York Historical Society
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James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker professor of American Civilization and History at George Washington University and Historian Emeritus at the
Smithsonian, chief historian for the New York Divided exhibition, author, and editor with Lois Horton of Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory (New Press, 2006)
- look at New York's continuing ties to slavery and the South in the period leading up to the Civil War
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Algernon Miller, artist and urban designer included in the Legacies exhibit at
The New York Historical Society
- on the legacy of slavery in his work and his designs for the Frederick Douglass Memorial Circle
Band of Brothers
Patrick Murphy , newly elected Congressman D (Pa- district 8)
- on his run for Congress as a veteran of the Iraq War
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Brent Renaud, filmmaker
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Craig Renaud filmmaker,
- on their new film Taking The Hill
Renaud Brother's Website
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