Conversations with History
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Conversations with History


Conversations with History - Instructors of modern world history will find good primary source material in this site?s 300+ interviews with newsmakers, historians, journalists, scientists, and others who created and observed that history. This site is maintained by the Institute of International Studies at the UC Berkeley.

From the site:

In these lively and unedited video interviews, distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists. The interviews span the globe and include discussion of political, economic, military, legal, cultural, and social issues shaping our world. At the heart of each interview is a focus on individuals and ideas that make a difference.

Harry Kreisler is executive producer and moderator of the series, which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 300 interviews.




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