Ray English

November 28, 2006

Ray English, Director of Libraries at Oberlin College and Chair of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, will talk on behalf of the watershed Federal Research Public Access Act (S-2695) and its manifold benefits for libraries, higher education, and information-seekers at large, and about what you can do to help the cause of open access.

46:14 min

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Rebecca Edwards

November 14, 2006

Rebecca Edwards, Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, offers new perspectives on the transformations that swept the new American nation in the period between Emancipation and the first deployment of American troops overseas from her book New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age.
35:52 min



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Jeffrey Walker

October 31, 2006

Jeffrey R. Walker, Professor of Geology at Vassar College and editor of a new edition of the naturalist John Burroughs' book Signs & Seasons, talks about Burroughs, his life and work.

59:13 min

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