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The one pre-recorded program that I’m planning to record for use in teaching is The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, by Pietra Rivoli, scheduled for 5:00am Monday morning

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At People For the American Way, the Right Wing Watch project reports on the radio ad in Maryland which was ‘apparently intended to boost the Senate candidacy of Michael Steele, [by urging] African Americans to stop voting for Democrats, because, among other things, “Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws” and “Democrats started the [...]

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I have recently received requests from a couple people who want to make this available to their students but were not able to retrieve it from my earlier post on their list. So here it is again in a more permanently accessible location.

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For the BookTV program featured in the post right before this one, I also posted a notice to the TRSE email list, maintained by CUFA (the College and University Faculty Assembly), which is associated with the NCSS. When I post such things to that list, I usually get private emails from CUFA members thanking me for the information, and [...]

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 re-airing On Saturday, November 11 at 8:00 am
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7367&schedID=463
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I did not intend to record this, since it looked like one of those “reenactors” events that I generally don’t see as worthy of attention.
However, I did get part of it b/c the first [...]

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Please join in developing a collaborative wiki alphabet book of Great American Accomplishments. Please add your own entries, or add to the entries that are already here! Click here for the Index page. Why would I (or anybody) do this? Here’s an explanation of where the idea for this wiki comes from:
During an interview that was [...]

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