The Brian Lehrer Show

New York City Panorama. Illustration by Edward Burckhardt, 1842-1845. (Collection New York Historical Society)

Old Times There Are Not Forgotten

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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.

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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
and
David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee
- what the Iraq Study Group recommends for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Excerpt of the Iraq Study Group report related to Israel

Speaking of Peace

Shimon Malka, co-director, All for Peace Radio, East Jerusalem
and
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
and
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
and
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
and
Brent Renaud, filmmaker
and
Craig Renaud filmmaker,
- on their new film Taking The Hill

Renaud Brother's Website