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In our “Unfreedom” episode we talk with Allison Madar about the evolution of laws affecting indentured servants and enslaved people in early America. Madar’s research draws on a variety of …
Blog#WhyIVoteVA Campaign
With Good Reason and Virginia Humanities is kicking off #WhyIVoteVA. Call us at (434) 253-0396 and let us know…
BlogNorfolk’s “Summer of the Pestilence”
On July 1, Virginia will move into Phase 3 of reopening. This new development will see the reopening of …
BlogThe End of Richmond Policing?
In our recent show, “The End of Policing,” we talk with Alex Vitale on why he thinks reforming police is not enough. Instead, Vitale argues that we must…
BlogImmunity Gardens
Along the stream, birds gather under and along the thick perch. “It wakes me up every morning,” Lilia Fuquen tells me. As Virginia Humanities’ director of Food & Community, her …
BlogReading List: The Highest Glass Ceiling
This week we’re looking at the many barriers still facing women in politics, business, and academia. For one of our segments, we talk to Ellen Fitzpatrick, whose new book The Highest …
BlogPortraits of American Poetry
This past May, the world celebrated the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman. He remains one of the great American poets, a brilliant figure in the American imagination that he came, …
BlogThe Case for the First African American at UVA’s School of Law, in Newspapers
In our show “Roses in December,” Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie” Boyle and her transformation from segregationist to ardent desegregationist in mid-20th century Virginia. Boyle’s desegregation …
BlogFurious Flower: The Soundtrack
For our show “Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry” Joanne Gabbin, the founder of Furious Flower, joins us in studio along with Lauren Alleyne to …
BlogMusic and Democracy: The Soundtrack
In our recent show, Music and Democracy, Charlie McGovern helps us trace the evolution of social change in America through popular songs by the likes of Nat King Cole, Percy …
BlogThe Victims of Racial Violence in Wise County
In our show “Reconstructing Danville,” we discuss the 1883 Danville Riot, and ways in which white southerners reasserted power after Reconstruction. This was done through laws, but also with the …
BlogReturning to Saigon
In our episode “Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland,” we spent some time with the oral history of Kim Delevett, recorded by historian Jason Stewart and found within Texas Tech …
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Voices of Vietnam
The Vietnam War pulled America apart, dividing our country into factions. And yet, memories of the Vietnam War unite us. In a new eight-part special series, With Good Reason explores the unresolved tensions in our understanding of the war and the perspectives and people it forever changed.
