Humanities Connection
From politics and religion to race, education and healthcare, Humanities Connection brings together some of New Jersey’s most fascinating scholars, authors, filmmakers and educators in conversation about critical topics facing our state, nation and world.
Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and broadcast on WFDU (89.1 FM), Fairleigh Dickinson University’s public radio station, Humanities Connection, hosted by Bob Mann, airs the last Sunday of each month at 8 a.m. Highlights of each episode are available following each broadcast.
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Current Episode:
How YA Lit Reflects Its Generation
Today's young adult lit is darker than previous generations. Find out why in this episode of Humanities Connection!
04/15/13 - How YA Lit Reflects Its Generation
01/24/13 - Six Guys from Hackensack: Looking for the Real New Jersey with George Kirsch
10/28/12 - The Last Newspaperman--Mark DiIonno
09/12/12 - Poetry is Essential to Democracy
05/27/12 - Looking Forward: NJCH and the Future of the Public Humanities
03/25/12 - Poetry Heals—Literature & Medicine Celebrates National Poetry Month
01/29/12 - The Hellhound of Wall Street: Michael Perino on Ferdinand Pecora and the Great Depression
10/30/11 - Environment, Equity & American History: Environmental Justice
08/28/11 - Environment, Equity & American History: Sharing the Delaware Bay
07/31/11 - 7 Steps to Freedom: Finding the Underground Railroad in Salem County
06/26/11 - Roots Music Today: New Harmonies
05/29/11 - Freedom: A History of US
04/24/11 - Narratives of Immigration: Latino/a Lives
03/27/11 - Religion and Violence: The American Scene
02/27/11 - New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music Comes to New Jersey
01/30/11 - Environmental Justice: History and Policy in New Jersey
12/26/10 - Crime and Punishment: Problems of the Supreme Court and U.S. Prison System
11/28/10 - The Human Condition in the Classroom: Humanities Teachers of the Year, 2010 and 2009
10/24/10 - Responses to the Holocaust and its Aftermath by American Presidents: Realpolitik or Real Justice?
09/25/10 - Jackson Lears on Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America 1877-1920
08/29/10 - John V. Fleming on The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
07/25/10 - Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care
06/27/10 - The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: Multiculturalism and Humor
05/30/10 - A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
03/28/10 - Revolution ‘67
03/25/10 - America and the Politics of World Religions
How YA Lit Reflects Its Generation Posted on: Apr 15th, 2013Today's young adult lit is darker than previous generations. Find out why in this episode of Humanities Connection!
Six Guys from Hackensack: Looking for the Real New Jersey with George Kirsch Posted on: Jan 24th, 2013Historian George Kirsch talks about lifelong friendship and growing up in the 50s and 60s in his new book, Six Guys from Hackensack: Coming of Age in the Real New Jersey.