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Scholarly Exhibits
American Archive of Public Broadcasting staff and guest curators create exhibits of selected recordings that focus on themes, topics, and events of cultural and historical significance.
Witnessing New Mexico: The New Mexico Public Media Digitization Project
Reclaiming Histories
Sharing Stories
Navigating Racism
On the Right: NET and Modern Conservatism
The Politics of/within Educational Television in the 1960s
Defining Conservatism
Conservatism and the Republican Party
Conservatism and Civil Rights
Conservatism and the Media
Notes
Climate Change Conversations: Causes, Impacts, Solutions
History of the Environmental Movement
Causes of Climate Change
Impacts and Consequences of Climate Change
Advocacy
Communicating Climate Change through Art
Proposed Solutions to Climate Change
Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Places
Organizations
People
Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting
(Mis)Representations of Native Americans
Termination, Relocation, and Restoration
The American Indian Movement
Native Americans in Contemporary News Media
Visual Sovereignty: Native-Created Public Media
Notes
Latino Empowerment through Public Broadcasting
The Origins of Latino Community Radio
Latino Public Television History
The Immigrant Experience through Public Broadcasting
Voices of Dissent: Life and Challenges of the Latino Community
Identity and Culture
Notes
Freedom Song: Interviews from Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
Eyes on the Prize: Framing the Civil Rights Past
Eyes on the Prize: Making Television History
Chronologizing the Past: A Timeline of Events
Locating the Civil Rights Past: An Interactive Map
A People's History: Interview Subjects
Local People
Women of the Southern Civil Rights Era
Organizational Activists
Politicans, Law Enforcement, and State and Federal Officials
Media and the Press
Church and Religious Leaders
Economic and Labor Activists and the Business Community
Students and Educators, Litigators and De-Segregators
Notes
Empoderamiento latino mediante la radiodifusión pública
Los orígenes de la radio comunidad latina
Historia de la televisión pública latina
La experiencia de inmigración a través de la radiodifusión pública
Voces de desacuerdo: La vida y los desafíos de la comunidad latina
Identidad y cultura
Notas
The Odyssey of Black Studies in Public Broadcasting
The Formative Years
Black Students and Faculty in Higher Education
Black Studies at 50: Examining Black Studies Beyond the College Classroom
Notes
Documenting and Celebrating Public Broadcasting Station Histories
First Broadcasts
Dedication Ceremonies
Retrospective Anniversary Specials
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
“Gavel-to-Gavel”: The Watergate Scandal and Public Television
The Watergate Scandal, 1972-1974
Watergate and Public Broadcasting
Cast of Characters
The Watergate Coverage
The Impeachment Coverage
Additional Resources
Notes
Televising Black Politics in the Black Power Era: Black Journal and Soul!
Black Journal
Soul!
Bibliography
Voices of Democracy: Public Media and Presidential Elections
The Process
The Candidates and the Campaigns
The Voters and the Issues
Notes
Protecting Places: Historic Preservation and Public Broadcasting
Traditional Historic Preservation
Marginalized Stories in the Landscape
To Plan or Preserve? Historic Preservation in the Wake of Urban Renewal
Old Buildings for a New Economy
The Nature of Preservation: Interpreting History with the Natural Environment
Notes
Exploring Public Media in the Peabody Awards Collection
Exploring the Peabody Collection by Year
Exploring the Peabody Collection by Location
Exploring the Peabody Collection by Entry Category
Peabody Award Winners of Public Media
History of the Peabody Award
The Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia
Notes
WRVR Riverside Radio: A Pioneering Noncommercial Station
WRVR's Religious Broadcasting
Public Affairs on WRVR
Covering the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements
The Black Manifesto
Cultural Programming and Music
Bibliography
ZOOM (1972-1978): Children's Community and Public Television in the 1970s
Innovations in Children's Public Television Programming
Children as Cultural Producers
The Politics of ZOOM
Notes
Harry Shearer's Le Show: Sonic Portal to News, Satire, Memory, History
Harry Shearer's Creative Life
Brief Historical Overview of Le Show
A Le Show Sampler: Topical Comedy, Sonic Satire, Satire in Song
Presidential Satire
Satires of Commercial and Public Media
Cultural Criticism
Environmental Reporting
More Satire in Song
Le Show Interviews
Le Show: Year One through Decade Four by Harry Shearer
Acknowledgments
Notes
Interviews with Foreign Leaders
People
Country
Date
Notes
After the Fire: NewsHour Coverage of Civil Unrest in America, 1991-2021
L.A. Riots
Occupy Wall Street
Ferguson
Baltimore
Charlottesville
Annotated List of Events
Notes
Education Reporting on Public Television
Education Documentaries in the NET Years, 1953-1972
Capturing Education Battles on Television, 1972-1980
Covering Education in the 1980s
National Education Reforms on Local Television, 1990-Today
Notes
“Burning with a Deadly Heat”: NewsHour Coverage of the Hot Wars of the Cold War
Angolan Civil War (1975-2002)
Nicaraguan Revolution (1978-1990)
Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992)
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989)
Notes
Structuring the News: The Magazine Format in Public Media
Precedents: Newsmagazine Firsts
Quintessential Newsmagazines
Notes
Speaking and Protesting in America
Protesting in the 1960s and 1970s <a id="beginning"></a>
Protesting in 1980s and Beyond
Notes
Suggested Learning Activities
Stories of the Land: Diverse Agricultural Histories in the U.S.
Land
Work
Environment
Culture
Practice
Politics
Additional Readings
Notes
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Public Broadcasting
1981-1985: Early Reporting on the "Gay Disease"
1986-1988: The AIDS Special Program
1989-1994: Into “the Second Decade”
1989-1991: Broadcasting ACT UP Direct Action
1995-1997: New HIV/AIDS Therapies and Strategies
Public Broadcasting Covers the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa
National Programs
Additional Programs
Epilogue
Notes
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