Month: August 2016
Trevor Parry-Giles (Professor of Communication) and Shirley Logan (Professor of English) spoke on “Rhetoric in American Politics” on WYPR’s MIDDAY program. Their talk, “Rhetoric and Politics in America: What’s Past is Prologue” is on October 10 at 1pm.
Forum: What is Education For? in the Boston Review
Forum: What Is Education For? appears in the Boston Review, opened by Danielle Allen.
Access the article and debate at the Boston Review’s website, available at the following link:
http://bostonreview.net/forum/danielle-allen-what-education
Bryan Stevenson in the New Yorker
Bryan Stevenson talks to David Remnick about the Legacy of Racial Terror. This podcast is part of the POLITICS AND MORE PODCAST for The New Yorker, available online at the link below:
Website Launches
The Democracy Then and Now website is now active, available at http://dtn.umd.edu. We will be updating this site with new locations and audio/transcriptions in the weeks ahead, leading up to the beginning of our programming in September.
Please check back for more content and updates soon.