WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

What Does Your Speech Reveal? We use language to express our identity. Our way of speaking varies and changes to reflect who we are and who we want to be. Carmen Fought asks the provocative questions: ...

You say potato ....and I say spud. A look at the different schools of thought on language usage.

New River Media Interview with William Julius Wilson Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University QUESTION: How did African Americans fare during the Great Depression and under ...

New River Media Interview with: Theodore Caplow Commonwealth Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia Co-Author, The First Measured Century QUESTION: Explain a bit about the first Middletown ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

"Surprising Beginnings" sets the stage for the series and examines the radical increase in violence against all opponents of the Nazi state during this 18-month period. In particular, the program ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated and difficult situation that produced conditions Adolf Hitler could exploit, but Germany's ...

When Ahmose (reigned from c1550 – 1525 BC) became king, Egypt was in crisis. It was occupied in the north and threatened in the south. It was a shadow of its former self. But by the time he died, ...

In a sense this is a fragile work. In its verbal silence, rigorous formalism and focus on the present, it ultimately must engage the memory of the viewer to endow it with meaning. – Beryl Korot Dachau ...

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