This collection encompasses 50-plus years of interviews, readings, speeches, and reports on the vibrant literary scene in Minnesota. Not only home to giants F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, our state has an array of incredible contemporary poets, novelists and playwrights. Their words make up majority of this collection.
Repeatedly being named the “Most Literate City in the United States,” the Twin Cities has played host to numerous visiting national writers via book tours, festivals, and lectures. Many recordings of these are also included.
This project was funded by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
March 8, 1979 - Dr. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. speech. Part of Vietnam Symposium.
March 8, 1979 - Today's report covers Vietnam, the presidency, public trust and student activists.
March 9, 1979 - Vietnam symposium studies the effect the war had and has on America.Author and national defense specialist Herbert Y. Schandler, Marquette University journalist and professor and former Presidential Press Secretary to Lyndon Johnson, George Reedy, and moderator Hy Berman of the University of Minnesota History Department discuss relations between the Presidency and the Congress as a result of the war. Also, former Minnesota Congressman Donald M. Fraser and Notre Dame professor David C. Leege discuss the Vietnam War's effect on public confidence.
March 10, 1979 - The plight of the Vietnamese refugee, like that of the Vietnam veteran, are the two most visible reminders of a war most Americans would prefer to forget. The ten day conference held at Macalester was one of the first national post-war forums to examine the effects of Vietnam. The conference considered how the war changed America's values, communication, lifestyles, political institutions, economy and foreign policy.
March 14, 1979 -
March 14, 1979 - Radio Sweden's Al Simon prepared a summary of Isaac Singer's interview appearances in Stockholm while he was there to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
March 19, 1979 - Psychologist, author, and theologian Dr. Rollo May offers his insights into the nature of freedom, the relationship between love and freedom, and related questions in a speech at Mankato State University.
March 20, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 21, 1979 - The Plains Bookbus carries the titles of books printed by small presses to many communities in our region and the book bus driver and some of its patrons talk about the books and their life on the plains. The Plains Bookbus carries the titles of books
March 21, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.