20th Century

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cosmic Conversation (Part 2)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
March 15, 2010
00:40:20
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium and charismatic host of the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW, addresses the controversy surrounding the institution's reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cosmic Conversation (Part 1)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
March 15, 2010
00:58:43
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium and charismatic host of the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW, addresses the controversy surrounding the institution's reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
March 10, 2010
01:07:00
Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.
Chang-rae Lee: The Surrendered
Chang-Rae Lee
March 10, 2010
00:39:22
Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee reads from his newest work, The Surrendered.
Anna Lawrence Pietroni: Ruby's Spoon
Anna Lawrence Pietroni
February 25, 2010
00:41:25
Anna Lawrence Pietroni reads from her debut novel Ruby's Spoon. Cradle Cross in 1933 is a town in the heart of Black Country, England, still reeling from the Great War and dominated by a button factory in terminal decline.
Wil Haygood: A Trilogy of Epic African American Lives
Wil Haygood
February 25, 2010
01:04:00
Journalist and biographer Wil Haygood discusses the fascinating lives of three African Americans--Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson--with radio host Callie Crossley.
Sasa Stanisic: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Sasa Stanisic
February 23, 2010
01:18:00
Sasa Stanisic, a native of Bosnia who fled to Germany during the war in 1992, discusses his first novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone.
John Banville: The Infinites
John Banville
February 23, 2010
00:47:52
Booker Prize--winning novelist John Banville reads from his new book The Infinities. On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying.