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

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...

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 ...

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was transformed. An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the modern ...

An exploration of the evolution of Auschwitz and its three camps. A detailed look at archival maps, blueprints and photos of Auschwitz. A guide to Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Archival maps, ...

DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN United States Senator (D-NY) QUESTION: I wonder if we could begin with a short autobiography from you? Let's take it from birth to the end of your career in the U.S. Navy. SEN.

In 1952, Henri Laborit, a surgeon in Paris, was looking for a way to reduce surgical shock in his patients. Much of the shock came from the anaesthesia, and if he could find a way to use less, his ...

Back to our radio signal. The electrons in our wire are moving, but not in one direction. These electrons are moving back and forth. Actually, the wave displayed in the activity is a representation of ...

New River Media Interview with: Howard Bahr Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University QUESTION: Please explain your role in the various studies of "Middletown" [Muncie, Indiana]. HOWARD BAHR: ...