Gore Vidal, writer's perspective: Smithsonian Institution (1999)
Mr. Wasserman interviewed Mr. Vidal who spoke about the current political climate. Among the issues he addressed were the role of politicians, the election ...
Oklahoma outlaw Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd gained infamy during the Great Depression. Woody Guthrie wrote this song in 1939. Bob Dylan covered it for the ...
This week marks the anniversary of the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago on May 27, 1933. Fan dancers turned a profit, if the architectural and ...
In August 1971, President Nixon unilaterally ended the Bretton Woods international monetary system of fixed exchange rates. In December 1971, the ...
FDR, Portrait in a Minute
The NPG's Warren Perry discusses a 1945 portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, by artist Douglas Chandor. This portrait in on view in the NPG's exhibition "America's ...
Douglas Chandor was indeed a supreme artist. His likenesses were uncanny.
I have a copy of his Churchill painting in my living room.
Smithsonian World - Early Aviation
A very good presentation from PBS about the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. I recorded this show in 1987 on my first VCR. I found this tape in a box i ...
Oklahoma's Strangest Scenery
Sand dunes, salt plains, and toxic soils: the vast "deserts" of Oklahoma are more than unusual. From: AERIAL AMERICA: Oklahoma //bit.ly/1qYgh4u.
Folkways In the bluegrass singer Ola Belle Reed's best-known song, "High On the Mountain," she sings of loss, lamenting bygone years and wondering about ...