WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

Interestingly, many of us consider our way of speaking to be neutral. It’s hard for us to hear features of our own speech that might be obvious to people who speak other dialects. When I say dialect, ...

Tease: NARRATOR: How we talk to one another defines who we are. JOHN COFFIN: Ayuh! NARRATOR: And American English is as rich, diverse and lively as Americans themselves. CAJUN MAN: (Cajun) (Laughter) ...

QUESTION: Please explain your role in the various studies of "Middletown" [Muncie, Indiana]. HOWARD BAHR: On two Middletown surveys, I was one of two field supervisors, or co-investigators, officially ...

Linguist Carmen Fought tells us that language expresses our identity and reflects who we are, and who we want to be. Every time we speak, we give listeners information about ourselves and where we're ...

Suggested Reading/Additional Resources. Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill. 1998. Language Myths. London & New York: Penguin Books. (A collection of useful and easily understood articles, each dealing ...

An exploration of the evolution of Auschwitz and its three camps. A detailed look at archival maps, blueprints and photos of Auschwitz. A guide to Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Archival maps, ...

Wright brothers fly first motorized plane 1903 Photo: Wright Brothers' first flight Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death ...

QUESTION: How did African Americans fare during the Great Depression and under the New Deal? WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were ...

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...

New River Media Interview with: William Cronon Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin ...

QUESTION: Tell us a little bit about when Robert and Helen Lynd came to Muncie, Indiana to begin work on what would become the Middletown study. BRUCE GEELHOED: Lynd came to Muncie in the 1920's with ...