Aural History Productions
The Radio Archive ~ July - December, 2001
December 27, 2001
Segment 2: "The Greatest Generation? Part II: The Civil War"
Segment 1: "The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach."
Alice Kaplan, literary critic and historian, is the author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach, which was nominated for a National Book Award.
It is the story of a talented writer put to death in 1945 for publishing hundreds of articles
justifying the Nazi regime in France. The execution of Brasillach, one of the most polarizing events in modern
French history, raises the question of whether the expression of ideas can constitute a crime against humanity. Kaplan is Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Duke University; her April 2001 University at Albany talk was sponosored by the New York State Writer's Insititute. Time: 30:59.
From Creighton University, in this segment of a four-part series on that explores the greatest generations, James McPherson talks about the Civil War generation. Princeton University professor McPherson is a leading historian of the Civil War and the author of several books including The Battle Cry of Freedom, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Time: 17:34.
December 20, 2001
"Timbuctoo and the Origins of an Integrated America."