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    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 103 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 103 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories Episode 3 video television tv full program episode special magazine Geyer Wolford Lesiak Organizer Williams Bush Pollard Abalos Chapp Williams Historian Carter narrator Harris Momaday biographer Christianson Saiz writer Starita...

    • This episode includes: The Liberators, Greening of the Dust Bowl, Loren Eiseley's Reflections of the Depression, White Buffalo Girl, Giving Thanks at a One Room School, and Piano in Tow.
    • China: Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk

    • China: Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk

    • E.N. Thompson Forum video World Issues Cooper Foundation issue lecture lectures UNL University Nebraska China Fragile Superpower Shirk

    • Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy -- a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. Shirk's 2007 book, China: Fragile Superpower, explored the troubling paradox faced by China's leaders: the more...
    • China in Africa: The New Scramble by Richard Behar

    • China in Africa: The New Scramble by Richard Behar

    • E.N. Thompson Forum video World Issues Cooper Foundation issue lecture lectures UNL University Nebraska China in Africa The New Scramble Richard Behar

    • Europe's rapid colonization of Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to be known as the 'Scramble for Africa.' Is China's increasing involvement in Africa the 21st century version? From Algeria to Zambia, from aluminum up the...
    • All About Books: February 25, 2010

    • All About Books: February 25, 2010

    • All About Books audio radio book literature reading review author Stephen Beneath the Lion's Gaze revolution Ethiopia 1974 Half Moon Henry Hudson and Voyage that Redrew Map of New World Hunter northwest passage 1609

    • Charles Stephen scrutinizes Maaza Mengiste's 'Beneath the Lion's Gaze,' a picture of the revolution and aftermath that struck famine-ridden Ethiopia in 1974, told through the eyes of a fictional doctor and his family. Stephen also uncovers 'Half...
    • All About Books: April 1, 2010

    • All About Books: April 1, 2010

    • All About Books audio radio book literature reading review author Stephen Griffith Travel as a Political Act Steves Churchill's Bunker The Cabinet War Rooms and Culture of Secrecy in Wartime London Holmes Great Britain United Kingdom UK World War...

    • Guest reviewer Rev. Stephen Griffith opens up 'Travel as a Political Act' by PBS travel host Rick Steves, which invites travelers to not just enjoy their excursions, but also learn from them. Charles Stephen delves into 'Churchill's Bunker: The...
    • Nebraska Veterans Cemetery at Alliance -- May 29, 2010

    • Nebraska Veterans Cemetery at Alliance -- May 29, 2010

    • Humanities Desk audio radio history literature art religion Nebraska life Veterans Cemetery at Alliance airfield World War II WWII

    • A new Veterans Cemetery is under construction in the Nebraska Panhandle on the site of an airfield built for World War II combat training. Jerry Johnston traveled to the site of The Nebraska Veterans Cemetery at Alliance and filed this report.
    • Nebraska Stories: The World Comes to Omaha (Episode 201 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories: The World Comes to Omaha (Episode 201 Clip)

    • Nebraska Stories video television tv segment clip 201 special magazine The World Comes to Omaha World's Fair city depression 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition Expo Trans Mississippi

    • Omaha may be a great and thriving city now; but it was once a fledgling young settlement.
      Just before the turn of the century, as Omaha struggled to escape a sudden economic depression sweeping the nation, city leaders pulled out all the stops...
    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 201 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories: Episode 201 (Full Program)

    • Nebraska Stories video television tv segment clip special magazine Olympics disabilities awareness competition beyond the finish line 201 South Sioux City athlete athletes disability The World Comes to Omaha World's Fair city depression 1898...

    • This episode of Nebraska Stories focuses on a Sioux City athlete, a time when the world's eyes focused on Omaha, a friendship that crosses nations, and a brilliant musician who journeyed across the world to hone his skills at UNL.
    • Nebraska Stories: Remembering Kloefkorn, Episode 301

    • Nebraska Stories: Remembering Kloefkorn, Episode 301

    • Nebraska Stories Remembering Kloefkorn video television tv segment clip special 301 magazine May 201, Nebraska's poet laureate William Kloefkorn passed away remembrance performance ROGER WELSH & TED KOOSER'S POETIC WORLD Kay Hall Annie Mumgaard

    • In May of 2011, Nebraska's poet laureate William Kloefkorn passed away. In this remembrance, we look back at an interview and a performance featuring the poet. From ROGER WELSH &, 1996 and TED KOOSER'S POETIC WORLD, 2005. Producers: Kay Hall,...
    • The War: Nebraska Stories - After Atomic Bomb

    • The War: Nebraska Stories - After Atomic Bomb

    • The War Nebraska Stories video World War II WWII Atomic Bomb Hiroshima Nagasaki Wayne Winslow Enola Gay Japan USS Missouri Treaty Tokyo

    • Whether dropping the bomb was necessary or not, it did definitely end the war. The United States accepted the Japanese surrender on August 15, 1945. Later, a more official ceremony was performed on board the USS Missouri. In this video, several...
    • The War: Nebraska Stories - Atomic Bomb Experience

    • The War: Nebraska Stories - Atomic Bomb Experience

    • The War Nebraska Stories video World War II WWII Atomic Bomb Hiroshima Nagasaki Wayne Winslow Enola Gay Japan

    • Truman gravely made the decision to drop the atomic bomb in Japan, first on Hiroshima on August 6th, and then on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. Those are the only two events of an atom bomb being used in times of war. In an instant, the...
    • The War: Nebraska Stories - Cornhusker Ordnance Plant

    • The War: Nebraska Stories - Cornhusker Ordnance Plant

    • The War Nebraska Stories video World War II WWII Cornhusker Ordinance Plant Grand Island

    • Because Nebraska was so far away from the coasts (and the enemies), the U.S. government found it a reasonably safe place to build defense factories. One of those factories, the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant, just outside of Grand Island, not only...

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