Ernst Chain's father came from Russia to Germany to study chemistry. He stayed there, marrying a Berliner and starting a successful chemical manufacturing company. When he died in 1920, his son Ernst ...

You say potato ....and I say spud. A look at the different schools of thought on language usage.

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

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WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was transformed. An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the modern ...

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Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...

The resources offered here are designed to help you use the PBS "Napoleon" video series and companion Web site in secondary social studies, civics, religion, and language arts classes. "Napoleon" may ...

QUESTION: Tell us a little bit about when Robert and Helen Lynd came to Muncie, Indiana to begin work on what would become the Middletown study. BRUCE GEELHOED: Lynd came to Muncie in the 1920's with ...

QUESTION: Please explain your role in the various studies of "Middletown" [Muncie, Indiana]. HOWARD BAHR: On two Middletown surveys, I was one of two field supervisors, or co-investigators, officially ...

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