Longtime MPR host Gary Eichten's event at the Museum of Russian Art with history professor Nick Hayes of St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict. Hayes is writing a book about his 40 years traveling, studying and teaching in the Soviet Union and Russia. It's called "Looking for Leningrad: My Soviet Life."
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The historian explores the immediate aftermath of the Civil War: efforts to fulfill the promise of emancipation, repairing the sectional divide between the north and south and the ongoing racial divide.
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Chris Farrell's "Conversations on the Creative Economy" series with Omar Ansari, the founder of Surly Brewing. Ansari talks about the entrepreneurial spirit he learned from his immigrant parents. The business of craft beer has the same risks inherent in both agriculture and manufacturing, but the boom has led to four thousand craft breweries in America.
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CDC director Tom Frieden addressed what needs to be done to combat Zika and other public health threats in a speech on May 26, 2016 at the National Press Club in Washington.
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Funds raised from hunting permits contribute to wildlife conservation efforts in the US and abroad. Is hunting a humane way to maintain equilibrium and habitats, or are there better alternatives? Four experts debate the Intelligence Squared motion: Hunters conserve wildlife.
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Time magazine political reporter Jay Newton-Small is out with a new book about the role women play in politics and in business. It's called "Broad Influence: How Women are Changing the Way America Works." Women serve in greater proportion in political office and the judiciary than they do in the private sector. She says that's because their "bosses" are "the voters."
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