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		<copyright>Copyright 2013 Massachusetts Historical Society</copyright>
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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Streaming media from the nation's oldest historical society, founded in 1791.]]></itunes:summary>
		<description><![CDATA[Streaming media from the nation's oldest historical society, founded in 1791.]]></description>
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			<title>The Confederacy in History, Myth, &amp; Memory</title>
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			<itunes:author>Waite Rawls</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Confederacy in history, myth, and memory continues to be a topic  that fascinates a global audience. Waite  Rawls, President and CEO of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, demonstrates how this history is relevant in the 21st century,  especially its complications and nuances.
Listen to this talk.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[The Confederacy in history, myth, and memory continues to be a topic  that fascinates a global audience. Waite  Rawls, President and CEO of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, demonstrates how this history is relevant in the 21st century,  especially its complications and nuances.
Listen to this talk.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>00:23:43</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>The Confederacy in History, Myth, &amp; Memory</itunes:keywords>
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			<title>Cotton &amp; Race in the Making of Massachusetts &amp; America</title>
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			<itunes:author>Gene Dattel</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Gene Dattel, author of Cotton and Race in the Making of America, brings the relationship of cotton and race out of the regional  shadows into the forefront of American history. The powerful dynamic of  cotton, the first truly global business, produced catastrophic racial  consequences and performed a critical nation-building economic impact.  Dattel casts light upon today’s economic and racial issues and financial  policies and explains why the antebellum North provides the key to the  tragedy of African American history from Reconstruction to the present.
Listen to this talk.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Gene Dattel, author of Cotton and Race in the Making of America, brings the relationship of cotton and race out of the regional  shadows into the forefront of American history. The powerful dynamic of  cotton, the first truly global business, produced catastrophic racial  consequences and performed a critical nation-building economic impact.  Dattel casts light upon today’s economic and racial issues and financial  policies and explains why the antebellum North provides the key to the  tragedy of African American history from Reconstruction to the present.
Listen to this talk.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>00:46:11</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>Cotton, race, American history</itunes:keywords>
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			<title>Insuring the City: The Prudential Center &amp; the Postwar Urban Landscape</title>
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			<itunes:author>Elihu Rubin, Yale School of Architecture</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of the most significant urban developments of the 1950s and 60s, the Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall gray tower. It is also a beacon of a mid-century moment when insurance companies like Prudential deployed buildings in cities to symbolize and advertise their intangible product: financial security. Yale architectural historian Elihu Rubin tells the full story of "The Pru," placing it in its political, economic, and architectural contexts and providing new insights into urban renewal in postwar America. Listen to the lecture.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the most significant urban developments of the 1950s and 60s, the Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall gray tower. It is also a beacon of a mid-century moment when insurance companies like Prudential deployed buildings in cities to symbolize and advertise their intangible product: financial security. Yale architectural historian Elihu Rubin tells the full story of "The Pru," placing it in its political, economic, and architectural contexts and providing new insights into urban renewal in postwar America. Listen to the lecture.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>01:00:03</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>Elihu Rubin Yale  Architecture Prudential Center Postwar Urban Landscape</itunes:keywords>
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			<title>The Curious Creation of the Electoral College: What the Founders Didn't Want and Didn't See Coming</title>
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			<itunes:author>Ray Raphael</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hoping to sidestep popular elections and transcend politics, the framers concocted a bizarre, untried method of selecting the president. Little did they suspect how their system would be gamed, from 1789 through 2012. Ray Raphael’s latest book is Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012). Listen to the talk with an introduction by MHS Trustee and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT Pauline Maier.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Hoping to sidestep popular elections and transcend politics, the framers concocted a bizarre, untried method of selecting the president. Little did they suspect how their system would be gamed, from 1789 through 2012. Ray Raphael’s latest book is Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012). Listen to the talk with an introduction by MHS Trustee and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT Pauline Maier.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>01:22:36</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>Ray Raphael, electoral college, founders, american history</itunes:keywords>
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			<title>Dr. Kimball's Time Machine: The Man Who Rediscovered Thomas Jefferson, Architect</title>
			<category>Podcasts</category>
			<itunes:author>Hugh Howard</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hugh Howard, author of Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture, discusses Fiske Kimball, the pioneering writer, scholar, and museum director who recovered Thomas Jefferson's architectural genius from historical memory. Listen to this lecture.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Hugh Howard, author of Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture, discusses Fiske Kimball, the pioneering writer, scholar, and museum director who recovered Thomas Jefferson's architectural genius from historical memory. Listen to this lecture.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>00:58:15</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>Fiske Kimball, Hugh Howard, Thomas Jefferson, architecture, founding fathers</itunes:keywords>
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			<title>Where We Worked: A Celebration of America's Workers and the Nation They Built</title>
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			<itunes:author>Jack Larkin</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jack Larkin, Clark University &amp; Old Sturbridge Village
Jack Larkin is Affiliate Professor of History at Clark University and Chief Historian Emeritus at Old Sturbridge Village, the outdoor museum of early American history. He has also written The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840, and Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home, The American Home 1775-1840.
Listen to this lecture]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Jack Larkin, Clark University &amp; Old Sturbridge Village
Jack Larkin is Affiliate Professor of History at Clark University and Chief Historian Emeritus at Old Sturbridge Village, the outdoor museum of early American history. He has also written The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840, and Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home, The American Home 1775-1840.
Listen to this lecture]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>01:12:00</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>American,Home,Jack,Larkin, Clark,University, Old,Sturbridge, Village</itunes:keywords>
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			<title>Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage</title>
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			<itunes:author>Vincent Carretta</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis  Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of  African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race  or background--to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was  just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley's work was an  international sensation. Listen to the lecture.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis  Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of  African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race  or background--to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was  just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley's work was an  international sensation. Listen to the lecture.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>00:36:43</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>Phillis Wheatley Poems on Various Subjects Vincent Carretta Boston</itunes:keywords>
			<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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			<title>When the Red Sox Ruled: Baseball's First Dynasty, 1912-1918</title>
			<category>Podcasts</category>
			<itunes:author>Thomas Whalen</itunes:author>
			<itunes:subtitle></itunes:subtitle>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the early twentieth century, the Boston Red Sox rode major league  baseball like a colossus, capturing four World Series titles in seven  seasons. Blessed with legendary players like Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, and Smokey Joe Wood, and a brand new, thoroughly modern  stadium, the Red Sox reigned as kings of the Deadball Era.
Listen to the lecture.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[In the early twentieth century, the Boston Red Sox rode major league  baseball like a colossus, capturing four World Series titles in seven  seasons. Blessed with legendary players like Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, and Smokey Joe Wood, and a brand new, thoroughly modern  stadium, the Red Sox reigned as kings of the Deadball Era.
Listen to the lecture.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<itunes:duration>00:43:01</itunes:duration>
			<itunes:keywords>Baseball Red Sox Fenway (Babe) Ruth World Series Sports League Whalen 1918 Boston University</itunes:keywords>
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