The Great Migration
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Looking for Work: A History of Unemployment.” You can listen to the entire episode here. William Brown moved north from Jacksonville, FL, during the Great Migration. He describes what happened when he asked a Philadelphia real estate agent for a job. Discussion of challenges for [...]
"School Days" Transcript
Transcript of “School Days: A History of Public Education,” originally aired in September of 2009.
School Days: A History of Public Education
The statistics look grim, but is America’s educational system any worse off than it’s ever been? Why have schools been the sites of so many social movements?
