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Anthony Barthelemy, Associate Professor of English, defines the concept of phenotype to describe the racist, segregated, "Jim Crow" South. He grew up in that…
Anthony Barthelemy on Jim Crow legislation
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Arthur M. Fournier, University of Miami Dean for Community Health Affairs, speaks about defining events in Vietnam in which he sought his inner "moral…
Arthur Fournier on resistance to the Vietnam War
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Basil Paquet, writer and Miami resident, gives a brief autobiographical sketch. In the 1960s, he attended the University of Connecticut, and Paquet talks about attending…
Basil Paquet on his experiences in Vietnam
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Zack Bowen introduces University of Miami Chemistry profess Carl H. Snyder, who gives a humorous lecture and a slide show. He explains that he was born in 1932, during…
Carl H. Snyder lectures on Headlines from the…
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University of Miami Chemistry Dept. professor Carl H. Snyder recalls the post-World War II era, when people felt that they could enjoy the fruits of victory, relax, and…
Carl Snyder on John F. Kennedy
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David Lieberman, UM Senior V.P. for Business and Finance, explains that, having been 30 with a wife and three children in 1965, he "missed out on this decade of…
David A. Lieberman on growing up in the South
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David Fisher, Professor of Geology, describes the 1960s as "the best of times and the worst of times." He recalls teaching at Cornell in the early 1960s and…
David Fisher on the ups and downs of the 1960s
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David Graf, Professor of History and Director of the Program in Classical Studies, gives an autobiographical sketch and memories of the 1960s. In 1967, he joined…
David Graf on the 1960s
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Professor Spivey introduces David Kraslow, who gives a dramatic and wide-ranging lecture. Kraslow, former journalist and co-author of "The Secret Search for Peace…
David Kraslow on major events of 1940s-1970s
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David Landowne, Professor of Physiology, introduces himself as having been politically naïve when he was a graduate student studying physiology. He recalls that the…
David Landowne on conscientious objection
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University of Miami Associate Provost for Instructional Advancement and Biology professor David Wilson remembers getting "Clean for Gene" in 1968 and helping…
David Wilson on conscription
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University of Miami History Department professor Donald Spivey lectures on World War II. He plays a recording of radio advertisements (in one of which, Orson Welles…
Donald Spivey lectures on WWII
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University of Miami President Donna Shalala gives her opinion that young people are good at organizing and at volunteering. She says that the Peace Corps symbolizes the…
Donna Shalala on the Peace Corps
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Dorothy Taylor on being a black woman in the… 14 of 16
Dorothy Taylor on being a black woman in the…
Dorothy Taylor, professor of criminology, responds to Sharyn Ladner's lecture by remarking that, in the 1960s, she could not obtain contraception without her…Dorothy Taylor on being a black woman in the…
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Frederick Nagle, Professor of Geological Sciences, wearing a “Rosie the Riveter” t-shirt and a cap advertising Spam, lectures on the post-WWII era. He…
Frederick Nagle on WWII and the post-war era
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Gregory Bush, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Public History, remembers growing up in a parochial New Jersey town that was "too stultifyingly…
Gregory Bush on his political activites in the…
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