Podcast appearances and mentions of Geoffrey C Ward

Danny and Derek speak with the political scientist Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State and the new podcast American Exception, about the JFK assassination. They delve into the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination, the  idea of Kennedy as a "peacenik," why it's important to study the assassination, and much more.Fredrik Logevall's essay "Kennedy and What Might Have Been" can be found in The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward.Check out the second part here.Original published December 12, 2021 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

So, it turns out you can only rush into so many fights before you pay the price. Custer is fresh off the Civil War and has no place to put all his ego. What could go wrong?   Social Media To review the scores and the teams, visit our website site HERE Find us on Instagram HERE Find us on Facebook HERE Find us on Reddit HERE Sourcing Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by TJ Stiles Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward , Ric Burns and Ken Burns

"The Long-Haired Hero of the Shenandoah" certainly stayed busy for the first 25 years of his life. Listen and see just how far the combination of luck and fortitude can take a man. We also introduce Jimmy!   Social Media To review the scores and the teams, visit our website site HERE Find us on Instagram HERE Find us on Facebook HERE Find us on Reddit HERE   Sourcing Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by TJ Stiles Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward , Ric Burns and Ken Burns

The Fight of the Century On July 4, 1910, in a makeshift wooden boxing arena in Reno, Nevada, a white man named Jim Jeffries climbed into the ring to fight a black man named Jack Johnson, and the nation held its breath. Taking place in an era of Darwinian thought and murderous racial anxieties, the outcome of the “Fight of the Century” caused the death of dozens of Americans and sparked the first nationwide race riot in American history. Bibliography: Jack Johnson, My Life: In the Ring and Out (Chicago: National Sports Publishing Co., 1927). Randy Roberts, Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes (New York: Free Press, 1983). Jeffrey Sammons, Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990). Geoffrey C. Ward, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (New York: Random House, 2004).

The Fight of the Century On July 4, 1910, in a makeshift wooden boxing arena in Reno, Nevada, a white man named Jim Jeffries climbed into the ring to fight a black man named Jack Johnson, and the nation held its breath. Taking place in an era of Darwinian thought and murderous racial anxieties, the outcome of the “Fight of the Century” caused the death of dozens of Americans and sparked the first nationwide race riot in American history. Bibliography: Jack Johnson, My Life: In the Ring and Out (Chicago: National Sports Publishing Co., 1927). Randy Roberts, Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes (New York: Free Press, 1983). Jeffrey Sammons, Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990). Geoffrey C. Ward, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (New York: Random House, 2004).

THIS weekend sees a potential Fight of the Year as Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez and Juan Francisco Estrada engage in a scrumptious rematch at super-flyweight.News that Josh Taylor and Jose Ramirez will clash in an undisputed fight in May is welcomed by Matt Christie and Alex Steedman and they also look back on Claressa Shields’ latest triumph.This Week In History stars Marvin Hagler and John ‘The Beast’ Mugabi. Memories of that fight trigger even better ones of a week spent in Wales with Mugabi, Shannon Briggs and Jeff Harding.Book of the week is the essential Unforgivable Blackness: The Jack Johnson Story by Geoffrey C. Ward.

EPISODE #268-- Is that a medley of "Can't Turn You Loose" and "Time is Tight" I hear? Direct from a world tour of Europe, Asia and the Subcontinents, it's THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980). We also talk PARTY GIRL and THE GREAT ESCAPE.  Donate to the cause at Patreon.com/Quality. Follow James on Twitter @kislingtwits and on Instagram @kislingwhatsit or on gildedterror.blogspot.com. You can watch Cruz and show favorite Alexis Simpson on YouTube in "They Live Together." Thanks to our artists Julius Tanag (http://www.juliustanag.com) and Sef Joosten (http://spexdoodles.tumblr.com). Here is one place you can donate bail for people protesting right now The Bail Project

The Bronx Zoo unveiled a controversial exhibit in 1906 -- a Congolese man in a cage in the primate house. The display attracted jeering crowds to the park, but for the man himself it was only the latest in a string of indignities. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll review the sad tale of Ota Benga and his life in early 20th-century America. We'll also delve into fugue states and puzzle over a second interstate speeder. Intro: Finnegans Wake contains nine thunderclaps of precisely the same length. In 1928 a British steamer seemed to receive an SOS from a perfectly sound ship. Sources for our feature on Ota Benga: Pamela Newkirk, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, 2015. Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blume, Ota: The Pygmy in the Zoo, 1992. Pascal Blanchard, et al., eds., Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empires, 2008. Pascal Blanchard, Gilles Boëtsch, and Nanette Jacomijn Snoep, eds., Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage, 2011. Rikke Andreassen, Human Exhibitions, 2016. Karen Sotiropoulos, "'Town of God': Ota Benga, the Batetela Boys, and the Promise of Black America," Journal of World History 26:1 (March 2015), 41-76. Sarah Zielinski, "The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo," Smithsonian, Dec. 2, 2008. Pamela Newkirk, "Bigotry on Display," Chronicle of Higher Education, May 26, 2015. Geoffrey C. Ward, "The Man in the Zoo," American Heritage 43:6 (October 1992), 12. Paul Raffaele, "The Pygmies' Plight," Smithsonian 39:9 (December 2008), 70-77. Pamela Newkirk, "The Man Who Was Caged in a Zoo," Guardian, June 3, 2015. "A Fresh Lens on the Notorious Episode of Ota Benga," New York Times, May 29, 2015. Pamela Newkirk, "When the Bronx Zoo Exhibited a Man in an Iron Cage," CNN, June 3, 2015. Michael Coard, "Ota Benga, an African, Caged in a U.S. Zoo," Philadelphia Tribune, March 19, 2016. Mitch Keller, "The Scandal at the Zoo," New York Times, Aug. 6, 2006. "Looking Back at the Strange Case of Ota Benga," News & Notes, National Public Radio, Oct. 9, 2006. Ann Hornaday, "A Critical Connection to the Curious Case of Ota Benga," Washington Post, Jan. 3, 2009. Eileen Reynolds, "Ota Benga, Captive: The Man the Bronx Zoo Kept in a Cage," NYU, Aug. 7, 2015. Samuel P. Verner, "The Story of Ota Benga, the Pygmy," Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 19:4 (July 1916), 1377-1379. "The True Story of Ota Benga," Scrap Book 3:1 (March 1907), 61. "Pygmy Ota and His Pet Chimpanzee," McCook [Neb.] Tribune, Oct. 5, 1906, 8. "A Northern Outrage," Lafayette [La.] Advertiser, Oct. 10, 1906, 2. Harper Barnes, "The Pygmies in the Park," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 4, 1992, 1C. Listener mail: Wikipedia, "Fugue State" (accessed Jan. 25, 2018). "Dissociative Amnesia," Merck Manual (accessed Jan. 25, 2018). Steve Bressert, "Dissociative Fugue Symptoms," PsychCentral (accessed Jan. 25, 2018). Steve Bressert, "Dissociative Amnesia Symptoms," PsychCentral (accessed Jan. 25, 2018). Bill Donahue, "Fixing Diane's Brain," Runner's World 56:2 (February 2011), 56. Neel Burton, "Dissociative Fugue: The Mystery of Agatha Christie," Psychology Today, March 17, 2012. Stefania de Vito and Sergio Della Sala, "Was Agatha Christie's Mysterious Amnesia Real or Revenge on Her Cheating Spouse?", Scientific American, Aug. 2, 2017. Vanessa Thorpe, "Christie's Most Famous Mystery Solved at Last," Guardian, Oct. 14, 2006. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Martin Bentley. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

ZERO-G #1163Title:L.Z ZERO-G Podcast Title: Pod it, Black 1163Science Fiction, Fantasy and Historical Radio with Rob Jan & Megan McKeough. This week: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Geoffrey C. Ward's monumental documentary series,The Vietnam War, we check out the trailers for Marvels TheAvengers: Infinty WarandJessica JonesSeason Two (on Netflix), plus a whole quinjet load of exhibitions and genre gems at specialist Summer cinemas to keep you entertained over the Fester Season.For playlists, show notes, and news see the 3RRR website at:http://www.rrr.org.au/program/zero-g/playlistsFollow @zerogrobjan on Twitter and Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ZeroGRadioZero G broadcasts live from Melbourne Australia on Mondays at 1pm AEST

This week I speak with America's most acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, about his new project, The Vietnam War. This 10-part, 18-hour epic debuts on PBS on September 17, 2017. Vietnam has long been one of the most divisive events in recent US history. And yet, after making films on the two most popular wars in US history, the Civil War and World War II, Ken Burns has taken on this extraordinarily complicated and emotion-filled topic. It's sure to generate a lot of commentary and -- as he and I discuss in this interview -- hopefully, many conversations in homes across the US. This episode begins with a short set-up piece, kind of a Vietnam 101, and then moves on to the main event, my interview with Ken Burns. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did.  Among the many things discussed in this episode:  Why Ken Burns chose to tackle the Vietnam War. Why Americans initially supported the Vietnam War. What eventually made the Vietnam War so controversial. Why Ken Burns thinks his film has the potential to bring a divided America together. How the Vietnam Wall went from controversy to sacred space. About Ken Burns – website Further Reading Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (2017) David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972) Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1991) Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1989) Smithsonian, The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History (2017) Karen Gottschang Turner, Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam (1998) Music for This Episode Jay Graham, ITPL Intro (JayGMusic.com) Kevin McCleod, “Impact Moderato” (Free Music Archive) Hefferman, “Discovery” (Free Music Archive) Blue Dot Sessions, “Sage the Hunter” (Free Music Archive) Hefferman, “Winter’s Trek” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Am History” (Free Music Archive) Production Credits Executive Producer: Lulu Spencer Technical Advisors: Holly Hunt and Jesse Anderson Podcasting Consultant: Darrell Darnell of Pro Podcast Solutions Photographer: John Buckingham Graphic Designer: Maggie Cellucci Website by: ERI Design Legal services: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Social Media management: The Pony Express Risk Assessment: Little Big Horn Associates Growth strategies: 54 40 or Fight © Snoring Beagle International, 2017

THE VIETNAM WAR is a ten-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that will air on PBS in September 2017. In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. THE VIETNAM WAR features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides. Six years in the making, the series brings the war and the chaotic epoch it encompassed viscerally to life. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, produced by Sarah Botstein, Novick and Burns, it includes rarely seen, digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, revelatory audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations and more than 100 iconic musical recordings by many of the greatest artists of the era. The film will be accompanied by an unprecedented outreach and public engagement program, providing opportunities for communities to participate in a national conversation about what happened during the Vietnam War, what went wrong and what lessons are to be learned. In addition, there will be a robust interactive website and an educational initiative designed to engage teachers and students in multiple platforms. @KenBurns @KenBurnspbs #TheVietnamWarPBS #SlackerMorningShow101theFox #TMobile

Two-time Peabody Award-winning, three time DuPont Award winner and seven-time Emmy winner, filmmaker New York by Ric Burns and the youngest female principal dancer currently on The American Ballet Theatre's roster, 28 year old Isabella Boylston join Halli at her table on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, to talk about the 75th anniversary of The American Ballet Theatre and Burns' new film The American Ballet Theatre : A History.Best known for his series, New York: A Documentary Film, which premiered nationally on PBS, @Ric BurnsRic Burns has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for over 20 years, since his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War, which he produced with his brother Ken and co-wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed some of the most distinguished programs in the award-winning public television series, American Experience, including Coney Island, The Donner Party, The Way West, and Ansel Adam.Isabella Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and started taking dance classes at the age of 3. She studied ballet at the Academy of Colorado Ballet and at Harid Conservatory. When she was 14, she won the gold medal at the Youth American Grand Prix competition. At the age of 17, she was spotted by the director of the prestigious ABT studio company and invited to come to New York City and begin a career at American Ballet Theatre. She was promoted to soloist in 2011 and principal dancer in 2014. She is the recipient of the Clive Barnes Award, the Princess Grace Award, and the Annenberg Fellowship. She has appeared as a guest star with companies around the world including the National Ballet of China.A look at The American Ballet Theatre: A History through the lens of award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns and prima ballerina Isabella Boylston on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show. For more informations visit http://goo.gl/tMuVJc