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Bicycle Fever

Evan Friss (James Madison University)

In the late nineteenth century, Americans caught bicycle fever. Evan Friss is the author of The Cycling City, about the 1890s when American cities were home to more cyclists than anywhere else in the world.

12 mins

An Animated Life

“Tuck” Tucker (Longwood University)

Veteran animator “Tuck” Tucker talks about illustrating many of the most popular cartoons in recent times, including Spongebob Squarepants, Hey Arnold!, The Ren and Stimpy Show, and The Simpsons. 

10 mins

College Sports and Academic Sanctions

Carray Banks (Norfolk State University)

The NCAA has doled out more academic sanctions to historically black colleges and universities than to other institutions. Carray Banks hopes to make college sports more equitable.

5 mins

The Disappearing Lake

Skip Watts and George Stephenson (Radford University)

There’s a scene in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing when a dance instructor lifts his young student in a beautiful lake at sunset. Today, that lake is disappearing and Skip Watts and George Stephenson are studying why.

7 mins

Planning for Sea Rise

Ray Toll (Old Dominion University)

Virginia’s shoreline is expecting a sea level rise of as much as three feet or more by 2060. Ray Toll is leading a comprehensive local response to the flooding that will be used as a model for the rest of the nation.

5 mins

Behind the Big Game Reserves

Stephen Macekura (Indiana University)

The earliest environmentalists weren’t tree-huggers – they were hunters and colonialists. Historian Stephen Macekura traces how African conservation has been closely tied with colonialism and development.

11 mins

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