After slavery was abolished

While I write this, a new show of New Books in History must be out, but I have just managed listen to last week's edition. Marshall Poe interviewed Leslie Schwalm who wrote a book about the fate of the African Americans after slavery was abolished. Emancipation, obviously, didn't come all by itself.

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Forgotten Classics

Here is a great listening tip for the vacation. Listen to Julie Davis of Forgotten Classics read to you Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic: Uncle Tom's Cabin. She has reached chapter 30 by now. Uncle Tom meets Simon LeGree. This is where it all goes awry.
Julie Davis not only reads Uncle Tom to you in the most excellent voice, before and after the reading you also get a bit of a literature class about the book.

Veertien Achttien

For those who master the Dutch language. A formidable podcast about the First World War. Every week another biography of one of the players involved. Veertien Achttien

Getting past current stereotypes of Islam - LSE

A quick recommendation from a blogger on vacation is from the LSE podcast. Ali Allawi lectures under the title: In Search of Islam’s Civilization. Can Islam get past the fundamentalists and can the world see past the fundamentalists?

More LSE Events:
Religion and the Market - John Gray on LSE,
John Gray's cultural pessimism,
Omniculturalism,
Controversies in the Economics of Climate Change,
Nudge: decision architecture,
The EU and the Middle East.

Israel again on UChannel

Here is a quick recommendation from a blogger on vacation.

A good podcast with some insights on the Israeli-Arab conflict you do not hear to often - like the inability of the political systems to deal with the problem, is Wounds of Peace: The Arab-Israeli Conflict After Gaza.

More UChannel Podcast:
Interfaith and Compassion - Karen Armstrong on UChannel,
Talent is overrated,
Ronald Reagan, a rebel,
Disasters and Peace,
Enclosing the commons of the mind,
Middle East challenges.

Volkis Stimme

For those who master the German language and like to laugh at the news. Volker Klaerchen pokes fun at it every week with Volkis Stimme.