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March 14, 2011 12:00 AM

1973: Defining Irish

Dr. Eoin McKiernan talks about what it means to be Irish.

by Marc Sanchez

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February 16, 2011 10:19 AM

More from "Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity"

Midday presents more speeches featured in the new book by Stephen Smith and Kate Ellis, "Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity." Speeches in this hour include ones from Shirley Chisholm, James Cone, Colin Powell, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

by Stephen Smith

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February 9, 2011 12:00 AM

John and Abigail Adams in letters

John Adams has had his share of publicity in the past few years. Historian Joseph Ellis's new book takes a look at the enduring relationship between Adams and his wife, Abigail, as revealed through their letters to one another. Originally broadcast on January 3, 2011.

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February 9, 2011 12:00 AM

The queen of the Nile: a new perspective

She was called Queen of Kings, and in her lifetime Cleopatra was romantically linked with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Biographer Stacy Schiff considered her a shrewd political strategist and powerful ruler. Originally broadcast on January 5, 2011.

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January 26, 2011 2:12 PM

Novelist Paul Auster writes about home

Paul Auster's new novel about abandoned homes and broken families speaks to Americans' experience with the recession. He revisits themes of existential crisis and the search for identity.

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January 20, 2011 12:00 AM

Presidents in the digital age

George Washington is on Twitter, JFK's archives are now digital, and Barack Obama is the first "social media President." Hear how Presidential history is alive on the Internet.

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January 19, 2011 5:49 PM

150-year-old letters give voice to Dakota prisoners

For nearly 150 years, the voices of Dakota men imprisoned after the Dakota Conflict of 1862 went unheard. But the details of their imprisonment are starting to emerge, in dozens of letters written by those men and now being studied by historians in Fargo.

by Dan Gunderson

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January 19, 2011 3:45 PM

In Lee's and others' stories, exhibit shows power of unexpected events

Koua Fong Lee, who spent more than 2 1/2 years in prison before being released, is part of a new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center that spotlights how unexpected events have the power to forever alter the course of a person's life.

by Jessica Mador

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January 5, 2011 4:26 PM

A remembrance of WWII resistance fighter Reidar Dittmann

Reidar Dittmann, a retired professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield who was a prisoner at a German concentration camp during World War II, is being remembered by friends as a man committed to helping people marginalized by society. Dittmann died recently at the age of 88.

by Dan Olson