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History

Bunkong Tuon and family
Speak Easy
Education

Poem: ESL Lesson

Mrs. D showed us how to conjugate the verb to be: "I am the teacher. You are the students. He is from Cambodia. She is from Vietnam."

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, October 26, 2017

Local officials and residents react to President Trump’s naming of the opioid crisis as a national public health emergency.  Repor ...

Air Date: October 26, 2017

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Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Me., smiles Jan., 5, 1949, as she takes a break from looking over papers in her office in Washington D.C.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Senator versus demagogue, and history's verdict

It's great that Jeff Flake stood up to Donald Trump's serial lies and dangerous toxicity, but, lest we forget our history, Flake's act was not unprecedented.

8 years ago

Kevin Minh Allen
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Thank you, Henry Kissinger, for my existence

Some days I entertain the insane thought that, if it weren’t for Henry Kissinger helping to prolong the Vietnam War, I wouldn’t have been born.

8 years ago

WHYY's Lincoln Financial Digital Studio is filled on Oct. 12, 2017, for a public discussion with Lynn Novick, director of PBS'
Speak Easy
Community

Vietnam’s paradox: Veterans and objectors alike can feel like ‘moral deserters’

We accepted that we were free to choose our life’s direction and obligated to choose morally, but our choices were all so unpalatable. There was no exit, no honorable option.

8 years ago

At the September 2016 press conference to announce the preservation of the house at 753 Walnut Street where Martin Luther King, Jr. stayed, a woman photographs a poster; the house is in the background.  (April Saul/for WHYY)
Community

Will restoration come in time for Camden’s MLK house?

If Martin Luther King Jr. were to spend the night now in the second floor Camden bedroom where he reportedly stayed as a seminary student ...

8 years ago

Naomi Adler, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, sings a prayer during a visit to Mt. Carmel Cemetery with Mayor Jim Kenney, who toured the site to see the repairs made to vandalized tombstones
Community

Donors chip in to restore Mt. Carmel headstones after rampage at Jewish cemetery in Philly

In February, a person or group desecrated hundreds of headstones at the Wissinoming cemetery. Donors from around the world contributed $300,000 to repair the damage.

8 years ago

Listen 0:00
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

At its 3rd meeting, Philadelphia’s Historic Preservation Task Force looks at the good and bad of Philly’s historic preservation ordinance

8 years ago

Black and white photo of Mr. and Mrs. JFK in the limousine, moments before the assassination
Politics & Policy

Trump has no plan to block scheduled release of JFK records

The documents include more than 3,000 that have never been seen by the public and more than 30,000 that have been previously released, but with redactions.

8 years ago

The author is shown with her family.
Speak Easy
Community

Reluctant historians, my family finally told me about their journey from Vietnam

As a third-generation Vietnamese-American of mixed heritage, I didn’t come to grips with how the Vietnam War shaped my mother’s life and her journey to the United States.

8 years ago

Fighters from the United Liberation Movement of Liberia (ULIMO) shoot their way through downtown Monrovia, LIberia Tuesday, April 16, 1996.
Courts & Law

Jurors begin deliberations in alleged warlord's trial

Prosecutors and the defense team for Mohammed Jabbateh delivered closing arguments. The jury must now decide if he committed fraud and perjury on U.S. immigration documents.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Health

Lindsey Fitzharris on “The Butchering Art”

Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, pain, saws and no sanitation.  In fact, operating theaters use ...

8 years ago

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A young girl works in a community garden.
Speak Easy
Community

Looking back at the war won’t distract me from Vietnamese community’s future

I don’t feel confused about the Vietnam War. I am certain that my life is a result of it. And I have dedicated the last eight years of my life to the future of my community.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Health

“The Butchering Art” / Bergdahl pleads guilty

Guests: Lindsey Fitzharris, Dan Lamothe Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, ...

Air Date: October 17, 2017

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Image courtesy of the Franklin Institute.
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Science

Out-of-this-world show

This Saturday marks the 94th anniversary of the first public planetarium show given at the German model for The Franklin Institute, the D ...

Air Date: October 16, 2017

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