With Good Reason Radio
By VFH Radio at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
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Podcast Description
“With Good Reason” brings you on to campus for intimate conversations with university faculty about their research in any of the disciplines. No topic is off limits for host Sarah McConnell as she explores everything from civil rights icon James Farmer’s training in debate, to the traditions of the samurai warrior, to the cultural history of Hawaiian shirts.
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Showdown in Virginia | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2012/02/HD_TheUnionisDissolved.jpg)The election of Abraham Lincoln as President touched off a secession crisis in the South. In his book Showdown in Virginia, Bill Freehling (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) focuses on turning points in Virginia’s months-long, bitter battle over whether to secede from the Union. Also: Historians estimate that of the nearly 5,000 pirates who terrorized America’s Atlantic coast in the early 1700s, twenty-five to thirty percent were of African descent, many of them freed slaves. Cassandra Newby-Alexander (Norfolk State University) argues these black pirates experienced more freedom on their outlaw ships than on ‘civilized’ dry land. Want to dig deeper? Explore Encyclopedia Virginia: Virginia Convention of 1861 (http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_Constitutional_Convention_of_1861) | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Magna Carta Online | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2012/02/king-john-magna-carta.jpg) One of the most important legal documents in history, the Magna Carta influenced the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Nearly 800 years later, it’s now going online. Bruce O’Brien (University of Mary Washington) is leading an effort to translate and digitize 150 early English laws, including the Magna Carta. Also featured: The King James Version of the Bible has been used to justify slavery and the submission of women. But it has also had a profound effect on the writings of African American women. Katherine Bassard (Virginia Commonwealth University), author of “Transforming Scriptures,” says African American women writers have used the King James Bible as a vehicle for social power. | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Equal Time: The Networks and the Civil Rights Movement | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2012/02/equal-time1.jpg)Aniko Bodroghkozy (University of Virginia) (http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83agb8cf9780252036682.html) is the author of the new book “Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement” which explores how the newly created evening news shows shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement. She investigates the network news treatment of events including the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, integration riots at the University of Mississippi, and the March on Washington. Also featured: Stephen Alcorn (Virginia Commonwealth University) is the illustrator of the children’s book “Odetta: The Queen of Folk,” which tells the story of the legendary singer and social activist known as “the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” The book follows her renowned career and her influence on many of the most important singers of the folk revival of the 1960s. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Combat to College | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2012/01/veteransincollege-300x190.jpg) With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. But the transition to academia can be hard. Alexis Hart and Roger Thompson (Virginia Military Institute) are traveling the country, coaching professors on how to welcome and support veterans. Also featured: Kurt Vonnegut’s experience as a World War II POW informed his writing decades later. A new biography, by Charles J. Shields (University of Mary Washington) (http://writingkurtvonnegut.com/), about the iconic countercultural author is called And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life. The man who emerges in the book is not the man his readers believed him to be. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Travel for Transformation | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2011/03/pilgrim-150x150.jpg)The Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage trail in northern Spain, continues to attract tens of thousands of travelers each year. Among those are George Greenia (William & Mary, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) (http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/pilgrimage-brings-together-hollywood-stars,-academics-123.php), who for years has walked the 500-mile route with his students. George studies the relationship between medieval and modern pilgrimages. He says that today's American pilgrimages, like Underground Railroad tours, share something in common with medieval pilgrimages—transformation of the traveler. Also featured: Between 1898 and 1901, China experienced a movement marked by violent opposition to Western Imperialism. In the summer of 1900, a Christian missionary and explorer from Sweden escaped what became known as the Boxer Rebellion. To save his family and other Christian missionaries, Frans Larson led a caravan through the Gobi Desert and into Siberia. That explorer's great-grandson, Henry Hart (William & Mary) (http://www.wm.edu/as/english/news/background-radiation-talking-poetry-with-hart.php), recently retraced his great-grandfather's trip through the Gobi. | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Strike | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2011/01/Moton-Museum-logo.jpg)In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the substandard school facilities provided for black students. The walkout, led by 16 year old Barbara Johns, is one of the great stories in the struggle for Civil Rights—a story of courage and persistence against what seemed at the time like overwhelming odds. Larissa Smith Fergeson (Longwood University) (http://www.longwood.edu/history/faculty.htm) provides the historical context to the walkout; Lacy Ward Jr. (Moton Museum) (http://www.motonmuseum.org/contact-us/staff-directory/) interviews two students who participated in the strike and Mildred Robinson (University of Virginia) (http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/faculty.nsf/FHPbI/1203484) describes the effects on students and families when the Virginia government closed the schools rather than succumb to the federal mandate to integrate them. Want to dig deeper? Explore Encyclopedia Virginia: Moton School Strike and Prince Edward County School Closings (http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Moton_School_Strike_and_Prince_Edward_County_School_Closings) Massive Resistance (http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance) Desegregation in Public Schools (http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Desegregation_in_Public_Schools) | 1/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ghostwriter in Bahrain | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2012/01/bahrain_financial_harbour_3-517x300-150x150.png)In the early 1990s, a young American man worked as a ghostwriter for a member of the royal family of Bahrain. Now, 20 years later, Ranjit Singh (University of Mary Washington) (http://cas.umw.edu/polisci/about-the-faculty/ranjit-singh/) is sharing his story about the man who would become the Bahraini minister of information and a key figure in the brutal response to that country’s recent uprising. Also featured: Camels were once imported from Afghanistan to build the Australian railroad and telegraph lines. Now their numbers are so abundant in the wild that they have become a nuisance and the Australian government is permitting people to shoot them from helicopters and use the meat for burgers. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University) (http://www.jmu.edu/mecm/profile_hanifi.shtml) studied the camel trade and presented his findings at the international Camel Conference in London. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Symphony of Hopes and Dreams | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2011/12/well1.jpg)The poetry of children in Birmingham, Alabama, inspired a recent classical music piece titled “Dream, Child. Hope.” It was composed by Adolphus Hailstork (Old Dominion University) (http://al.odu.edu/music/directory/hailstork.shtml), in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hailstork has written music for a number of prestigious ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony. But his influences sometimes come from unlikely places. Also featured: Food tins with discriminatory logos. Toys that caricature African Americans. Slave shackles and Klan robes. These artifacts of slavery and its aftermath have drawn the attention of entertainers like Oprah Winfrey, Whoopie Goldberg, and Bill Cosby, who have become collectors of racist ephemera. Joining their ranks are Therbia Parker and his wife Marva, who use their extensive collection to educate people about racism in America. | 12/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Got To Move | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2011/11/weight-scale.jpg) (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2010/12/scale.jpg)There’s no doubt that the number of obese Americans has increased dramatically over the last 25 years – putting them at risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and osteoarthritis. But Cathy Roy (Longwood University) (http://www.longwood.edu/hrk/8257.htm) says it’s not necessarily the fat making people sick. Her research suggests a lack of physical activity might be more to blame. Also featured: Water might help you lose weight. The latest research shows that drinking two 8 oz. glasses before each meal helps decrease calorie intake. Brenda Davy (Virginia Tech) (http://www.hnfe.vt.edu/about_us/Bios_faculty/bio_davy_brenda.html) investigates lifestyle strategies that prevent obesity – and her latest studies about the role of water in diets are making a huge splash. And also featured: Don’t let the economy get you down this year. Psychologist Holly Schiffrin (http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/102010/10032010/577905)(University of Mary Washington) (http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/102010/10032010/577905) suggests that lifestyle changes brought on by the recession might actually be better for our well-being. She says one of the surest ways to find happiness doesn’t have to cost a nickel: spending time with friends and family. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alzheimer’s Disease: What We Now Know | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2011/12/alzheimers1-150x150.jpg)When 62 year old Bill Wood turned to his wife at the funeral of a family member and asked, “Who are all these people?” she knew something was terribly wrong. Alzheimer’s Disease had struck the witty and dapper former newspaper editor early. His wife Carol Wood (University of Virginia) describes her daily challenges as she cares for her accomplished husband. Steven DeKosky, dean of the UVA medical school (http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=5478), is an international expert in the field of Alzheimer’s Disease research. He has seen first hand the toll Alzheimer’s has taken on Carol and Bill and the grace with which they have responded. DeKosky discusses the latest research on the disease. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s the Economy For, Anyway? | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2011/12/affluenza.jpeg) An epidemic of over-consumption is sweeping the United States and the rest of the industrialized world. With Good Reason sat down with PBS documentary producer John De Graaf (http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/), among whose best-known shows is Affluenza, for an in-depth discussion of happiness and the economy and how the life/work balance got out of whack for American workers. De Graaf, the author of a new book on the economy (http://www.bloomsburypress.com/books/catalog/whats_the_economy_for_anyway_hc_107), proposes solutions for living more sustainably. Take the Happiness Survey! (http://happycounts.org/survey/GNH) Also featured: The story of life has a complex cast of characters, and Fred Singer (http://www.radford.edu/fsinger/) (http://www.radford.edu/fsinger/)( (http://www.radford.edu/fsinger/)Radford University) (http://www.radford.edu/fsinger/) says we’re losing many of them due to poor judgment and our own astounding biological success. Singer has interviewed Jane Goodall, Dan Jansen and other renowned scientists for his new textbook on ecology. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ups and Downs of Dynamic Ticketing | (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/files/2011/11/5049368900_8dee327370.jpg)In 2010, baseball’s San Francisco Giants became the first professional sports team to use dynamic ticket pricing for games. It was the same year they won the World Series. Stephen Shapiro (Old Dominion University) (http://www.odu.edu/ao/news/index.php?todo=details&id=27566) studied the Giants’ ticket pricing practices and says more teams are following suit. Also featured: Female athletes are three times more likely to suffer catastrophic knee injuries as male athletes. Physical therapist Steven Morrison (Old Dominion University) (http://hs.odu.edu/physther/directory/smorrison.shtml) has found some simple exercises that help women’s soccer players prevent knee injuries. And also: Stefan Duma (Virginia Tech) (http://www.cib.vt.edu/people/bios/faculty_bios/bio_duma.html) has led a drive to reduce head injuries to football players at all levels. Now Duma and his team have released results from the first study ever to measure blows to the helmets worn when children play football. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Episodes |
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With Good Reason finds amazing guests with knowledge, topics and opinions outside of those knocked back and forth by the usual talking heads. With Good Reason combs the desert for gems; people who should be on air but would be otherwise hidden in the sand: Mona Ternus, a veteran of several wars, nurse, and researcher explains how mothers who deploy to war can mitigate the effects on their families. Historian Cindy Wilkey recounts the adventures of the Wright Brothers from the perspective of their sister Katherine, who happenned to be their business manager. Stage and film fight director Greg Lloyd explains that the key to staging a fight scene is in the acting (or "selling") of the vicitm. Unexpected, unique insights.
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