Macat
An Introduction to Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone
How important is connectedness in a community? Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam details the early 21st century theory of the decreased value of social capital. A short analysis...
American Public Media
American Radio Works: After the Projects
Discussion of the future of public housing in America. Will the tearing down of public housing and the moving of poor people to mixed income neighboorhoods help them escape from poverty? Includes a historical perspective.
Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Beyond Numbers: A History of the u.s. Census
This BackStory Radio episode explains the revolutionary idea to actually count the number of people in an area and explores how the notion of who counts has changed over time. It is provided in audio and transcript segments.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Take Two: Changing Life Through Work
A look at what Americans are doing to change their lives. Job security and satisfaction are not what they used to be and Americans are changing themselves and reinventing the culture of work. (January 25, 2006)
Other
Reading Through History: Daily Life and Popular Culture in the 1990s
This video provides an introduction to daily life in the 1990s as well as highlighting some of the broad trends in popular culture during that decade. [10:11]
Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: New and Improved: Advertising in America
Audio episode [59:38] in which the American History Guys from BackStory explore in-depth, the history of advertising in America.