Historic Theater With Black History Roots Reopens in Washington The Howard Theater, a Washington DC landmark, is reborn. The sound of music once again fills the historic venue that was built in 1910 as the largest theater in the world for African Ame...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Life in the U.S. After the 9/11 Attacks STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look at America after the events o...
Former Torture Center Teaches Khmer Rouge History Teacher Ser Sayana stands before a classroom of foreigners and tries to cover in 15 minutes the violent history of Cambodias Khmer Rouge. She says the course, sponsored by the Documentation Center of...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Bill Clintons First Term as President STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we continue the story of Americas forty-...
US Civil Rights History Spawns Tourism In Birmingham, Alabama, a battleground in the struggle for African American equality, some are capitalizing on so-called heritage tourism. It was in this very city where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and o...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Life in the 1970s and '80s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at some of the social issues and c...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Life in the 1970s and '80s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at some of the social issues and c...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: The Election of 1968 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. Nineteen sixty-eight was a presidential election year in the United States. It was...
EXPLORATIONS - Exploring the Art and History of Printmaking STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. there is a colorful and expressi...
US Occupiers Turn To History, Art and Solidarity Participants getting classes in political activism from how to deal with police to learning tactics from recent upheavals in North Africa. Participants in the multi-city Occupy movement in the United S...