2000 · July–December | Talking History

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Aural History Productions

The Radio Archive ~ July - December, 2000

December 28, 2000
Segment 1: "A History of the Stork Club."

New York City's Stork Club opened in the 1920s and came to represent the glamour and elegance of urban cafe society. Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times reporter and author of Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society talks with Creighton University's Bryan Le Beau about cafe society and the darker, lesser known, history of the Stork Club.

Segment 2: "Transcontinental Railroads"

The Transcontinental Railroad: A talk with historian Stephen Ambrose, author of "Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869".

~ ~ ~ ~ December 21, 2000
Segment 1: "A History of Toys."

Toys: For Christmastime, a talk with professor Gary Cross of Penn State University. Cross is the author of Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood.

Segment 2: "Comment: Why Is There No Socialism"

Gary Marks, University of North Carolina and co-author of It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the Unitied States (with Seymour Martin Lipset), offers his thoughts on why socialism never developed in the United States.

Segment 3: "Clement Moore and The Night Before Christmas."