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American Radio Works: American Radio Works: Bridge to Somewhere

Sunday, July 5 at 10 p.m.

President Barack Obama’s plan to create jobs by building infrastructure invites comparisons to another president. Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to manufacture jobs by building bridges, sewers, schools and even ski jumps. Historians disagree about how much FDR’s New Deal programs eased the Depression in the short term. Although, in the long term, the structures they built have had a profound effect on the country’s economy.

 

American Radio Works: Hard Times in Middletown

Sunday, July 12 at 10 p.m.

In 1929, the Rockefeller Institute published a scientific study of a “typical American city.” Middletown: A Study of Modern American Culture took an intimate look at church, school, family, and work in Muncie, Indiana. The book was an instant hit and is still in print. It launched Muncie’s reputation as the most widely studied small town in the world.

 

Humankind: American Resilience

Friday, July 3 at 12 p.m.

From deep recession to global warming, terrorism to pandemic illness, a remarkable confluence of challenges calls America to summon its inner strengths. But this is not the first time our nation has faced a heavy burden. Historically, how has America risen to the occasion of adversity and bounced back?

 

Capitol Steps: July 4th Edition of Politics Takes a Holiday

Friday, July 3 at 1 p.m.

Joe Biden has announced that the Capitol steps July 4th Radio show is the finest radio program since The Morning Edition show, when President Ben Franklin debated George Washington Carver, whom is most famous the discovery of different uses of peanuts.

 

America Abroad : America's Diplomacy Deficit

Sunday, July 19 at 10 p.m.

There’s a new administration in town promising to get tough on soft power. But a lack of resources, language capacity, and cultural competency make it tough to talk the talk in the field.

Against All Odds: Hope on a Pile of Bones

Sunday, July 26 at 10 p.m.

Against All Odds introduces listeners to a range of people who are building the new Rwanda. It profiles a young genocide survivor who escaped the slaughter by pretending to be a woman. He helplessly stood by and later hid in a church that became a torture chamber, as his father and brothers were murdered. That young man is now studying sociology to better understand what happened to his country, and he works at the Kigali Genocide Memorial to help keep alive the memory and lessons learned.

 

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