When Cosimo il Vecchio was a young man, he was given a slave girl. Despite his marriage he continued to live with her, away from his family. Their bastard son, Carlo, sought his fortune in Spain and ...

Bumper and Tease: NARRATOR: Now, back to Do You Speak American? Tommy Taylor: (singing) Had a piece of pie, had a piece of pudding, well I give it all away to the other side of goodin’. NARRATOR: Down ...

QUESTION: How did African Americans fare during the Great Depression and under the New Deal? WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were ...

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...

He is the author of the prize-winning Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. He is the editor of Uncommon Ground: ...

What Does Your Speech Reveal? We use language to express our identity. Our way of speaking varies and changes to reflect who we are and who we want to be. Carmen Fought asks the provocative questions: ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

QUESTION: Please explain your role in the various studies of "Middletown" [Muncie, Indiana]. HOWARD BAHR: On two Middletown surveys, I was one of two field supervisors, or co-investigators, officially ...

QUESTION: Tell us a little bit about when Robert and Helen Lynd came to Muncie, Indiana to begin work on what would become the Middletown study. BRUCE GEELHOED: Lynd came to Muncie in the 1920's with ...

Linguist Carmen Fought tells us that language expresses our identity and reflects who we are, and who we want to be. Every time we speak, we give listeners information about ourselves and where we're ...

BEN WATTENBERG: Bella Bocce. So a new history based on data and social science was linked to politics from the very start. A social science controversy surfaced in a policy arena most Americans today ...

Lesson 4 Using Transistors: Let’s Get Transistorized! Overview In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. Objectives • To observe how a transistor functions in a ...