Timothy Egan is a New York Times columnist and 2006 National Book Award winner for his history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl, "The Worst Hard Time."
Timothy Egan appears in the following:
The Irish Revolutionary Turned American Hero
Monday, March 07, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Timothy Egan talks about the incredible life of Irish-American hero Thomas Francis Meagher.
Native Americans Captured on Film
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Timothy Egan tells the story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history—and the driven, brilliant man who made them, Edward Curtis. In Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher is a portrait of the photographer and his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs, preserved 10,000 audio recordings, and is credited with making the first narrative documentary film, creating a definitive archive of the American Indian.
'Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher': Edward Curtis, Photographer of the American Frontier
Friday, October 12, 2012
In "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher," author Timothy Egan chronicles the life and work of photographer Edward Curtis. Timothy Egan explains that Curtis's goal was to document Nativ...
Timothy Egan and 'The Big Burn'
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
If you go to any national park or protected wilderness in the U.S. today, you will find the friendly, heroic figure of the forest ranger: a uniformed caretaker of natural splendor, an...
Church Burnings (hour 1); Environmental Reporters (hour 2)
Sunday, August 25, 1996
Are the burnings of African-American churches what the media portrays them to be?