This Memorial Day, guest host David Ahrens is joined by two of the musicians behind a historical rock and roll musical. Ken Fitzsimmons and Sean Michael Dargan were part of […]
Public History: WWI and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Today on the program, we look back one hundred years to the public health effects of World War I and the influenza pandemic of 1918 with Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, curator of […]
The IWW and the Largest Mass Trial in US History with Dean Strang
In the wake of recent worker uprisings, including the UAW’s recent strike and the Chicago teachers strike, today we examine the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (or […]
Special Show Nov 12 Commemorates Polish Independence After WWI
November 11, 2018 marks centenary of Poland’s Independence after 123 years of absence from the map of Europe as a result of being partitioned by its neighbors: Russia, Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. […]
Worse than the Devil: Justice in a Time of Terror
8 O’clock Buzz host Brian Standing interviews local author and lawyer, Dean Strang, in the studio, regarding Strang’s new book: Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in […]