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History Relevance Campaign (Part I) & Watergate Building Book

Historic Matters: Conversations on the American Past

English - May 18, 2018 17:26 - 27 minutes - 50.6 MB
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Previous Episode: Simon Winchester: Journeys to the Fall Line & Creation of Two Korean nations
Next Episode: History Relevance Campaign (part II) and the American Revolution's first female historian

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Part I)   What is the History Relevance campaign?  An exciting, new collaboration of enterprising public historians around the nation.  Three leaders discuss this campaign for greater history teaching and awareness, both inside and outside the classroom.

(to be continued)

 

Part II)   The first published history of the Watergate Complex.  Site of the 1972 break-in AND the spectacular, mixed-use, and once very controversial home of the powerful and private in Washington DC.  Author Joe Rodota presents his new "biography" of the 50 year old Watergate complex.