2000-42 (12/31/00)

The Battle for Christmas

Stephen Nissenbaum, author, The Battle for Christmas; professor of History, UMass Amherst.

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant, author, The Red Tent

2000-41 (12/24/00)

Christmas Revels

Patrick Swanson, Artistic Director, Revels, Inc.

Kwanzaa!

De Ama Battle, Founder and Director, Art of Black Dance and Music.

2000-40 (12/17/00)

Women and Boston: A History

Sarah Deutsch, author, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston 1870-1940.

Sojourner Truth and Massachusetts Utopian Communities

Paul Gaffney, member Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee; Assistant Professor, Landmark College.

2000-39 (12/10/00)

Experiencing Politics: The View From the Legislature

John McDonough, Associate Professor, Heller School, Brandeis University; author, Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care.

Experiencing Politics: The View From the Picketline

Karen Higgins, staff nurse, Boston Medical Center; Chairperson, Labor Program, Massachusetts Nurses Association.

2000-38 (12/3/00)

Public Commemorative Art

Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.

Urban Arts

Ricardo Barreto, Director, Urban Arts Institute at the Mass College of Art.

2000-37 (11/26/00)

Blanche White: A New Heroine

Barbara Neely, author, Blanche Passes Go, the latest in the Blanche White detective series.

Carolotta Carlyle: Re-Inventing the Sleuth

Linda Barnes, author of Flashpoint, the latest in the Carlotta Carlyle detective novels series.

2000-36 (11/19/00)

The Story Behind the Song and Film "Alice's Restaurant."

Laura Lee, author, Arlo, Alice & Anglicans: The Lives of A New England Church.

Massachusetts in 1834: Why A Mob Attacked the Ursuline Convent

Nancy Lusignan Schultz, professor of English Salem State; author, Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834.

2000-35 (11/12/00)

Taking Shakespeare to Youth

Kevin Coleman, Director of Education, Shakespeare & Co.

Gender Bending Shakespeare

Lisa Wolpe, Director, all-female cast of Taming of the Shrew for Boston Theater Works.

2000-34 (11/5/00)

Genetic Counseling

Kathryn Spitzer Kim, Co-Director, Genetic Counseling Program, Brandeis University.

The Human Genome Mapping Project

Rick Kesseli, Professor of Biology, UMass Boston.

2000-33 (10/29/00)

How You Can Support Farmers and Preserve Open Landscape

Linda Enerson, Executive Director, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture

Consumers and Environment

Warren Leon, Director, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.

2000-32 (10/22/00)

Forum For the 21st Century: Closing the Digital Divide

A panel of speakers. Moderator: Louis Casagrande, President, Boston Children's Museum. Commentator: Mel King, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, MIT.

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2000-31 (10/15/00)

Recovering the Heritage of Native Healers

Marge Bruchac, Abenaki Indian storyteller/performer and historical consultant

Contemporary Native American Art

Dillon Bustin, Executive Director, South Shore Art Center; curator, "Hands of the Ancestors: An Assembly of Algonquian Artists"

2000-30 (10/8/00)

Reading the Book of Ruth

Gail Reimer, Executive Director, Jewish Women's Archive; author, Reading Ruth

The Red Tent

Anita Diamant, author, The Red Tent

2000-29 (10/1/00)

The Presidential Debates

Michael Dukakis, former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee

The Relationship Between the Congressional and Presidential Races

Mickey Edwards, Former Congressman, Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

2000-28 (9/24/00)

Presidential Debates as Television

Alan Schroeder, author, Presidential Debates: 40 Years of High Risk TV.

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2000-27 (9/17/00)

Economy and Ecosystem

Diana Muir, author, Reflections in Bullough's Pond.

Urban Ecology

Russ Handsman, Ecologist, Ecotarium.

2000-26 (9/10/00)

Harbor Cleanup

Richard Delaney, Director, Urban Harbors Institute, UMass Boston.

Boston Harbor Island Park

Kathy Abbott, Executive Director, Island Alliance.

2000-25 (9/3/00)

Animals' Legal Rights

Steve Wise, Author, Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals.

Conservation Medicine

Mark Pokros, Director, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine Wildlife Clinic.

2000-24 (8/27/00)

Providing Multilingual Health Care

Dr. Stephen Tang, Co-founder, Chinatown's South Cove Community Health Center.

Progress in HIV/AIDS Treatment

Dr. Stephen Boswell, Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS; Executive Director, Fenway Community Health Center.

2000-23 (8/20/00)

The U.S. Naval Bombing of the Puerto Rican Island of Vieques

Giovanna Negretti, Interim President, Massachusetts Chapter, National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights

U.S.-Cuban Relations

Miren Uriarte, Interim Director of the Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, UMass Boston.

2000-22 (8/13/00)

Death Education

Carol Wogrin, nurse and clinical psychologist; executive director, National Center for Death Education at Mount Ida College.

Children and the Grieving Process

Phyllis Silverman, author of Never Too Young To Know; co-principle investigator, Mass General Hospital/Harvard Child Bereavement Studies.

2000-21 (8/6/00)

The Aging of Massachusetts Workforce

David Terkla, Professor of Economics UMass Boston

Elderhostel

Jim Versheueren, Associate Vice President of Program Administration, Elderhostel.

2000-20 (7/30/00)

The African-American Experience in Massachusetts Courts

The Honorable Julian T. Houston, Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts.

Racial Profiling

Deborah Ramirez, professor, Northeastern University School of Law.

2000-19 (7/23/00)

Environmental Factors in Breast Cancer

Julia Brody, Executive Director, Silent Spring Institute.

Nuestros Cuerpos: The New Spanish-language Adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves

Ester Shapiro, Professor of Psychology at UMass Boston and one of the authors and editors of Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas.

2000-18 (7/16/00)

Frederick Law Olmsted and His Landscape Design Heritage

Charles Beveridge, series editor, Olmsted Papers, American University.

The Livable Cities Initiative

Rebecca Barnes, Vice President, Boston Society of Architects.

2000-17 (7/9/00)

Experiences With Alzheimer's

Charles Pierce, author of Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story; regular contributor to National Public Radio.

Caring for People With Alzheimer's

Kathy Fabiszewski, Coordinator, Adult Gerontological Nurse Practicioner Program at UMass Boston.

2000-16 (7/2/00)

Bringing Boston's History to Life

Bob Krim, Exec. Dir., Boston History Collaborative.

Discovering Cape Cod

Jim O'Connell, Economic Development Officer, Cape Cod Commission.

2000-15 (6/25/00)

Power Dynamics of Development in Boston

Joan Vennochi, columnist, Boston Globe.

Women and Massachusetts Politics

Betty Taymor, Author of Running Against the Wind: The Struggle of Women in Massachusetts Politics.

2000-14 (6/18/00)

The Changing Face of Boston

Rev. Cheng Imm Tan, Director, Mayor's Office of New Bostonians.

Immigration's Legacy

Westy Egmont, Executive Director, International Institute of Boston; director, Dreams of Freedom.

2000-13 (6/11/00)

Taking History to Heart

James Green, author of Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements, Professor of History and Labor Studies, College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston.

Preserving Labor's History

Steve Sullivan, Director of Education and Training, Teamsters Local 25.

2000-12 (6/4/00)

The Digital Divide

Phil Hart, Director, William Monroe Trotter Institute, Professor of Sociology, UMass Boston.

The Computer Clubhouse: Kids, Creativity, and Community

Gail Breslow, Director, Intel Clubhouse Network.

2000-11 (5/28/00)

Civic Environmentalism

William Shutkin, author of The Land That Could Be; founder and president of New Ecology, Inc.; lecturer in Urban Studies and Planning at M.I.T.

Thoreau's Journals and the History of New England's Landscape

David Foster, Director of the Harvard Forest; professor of biology, Harvard; author of Thoreau's Country.

2000-10 (5/21/00)

Nantucket and Afro American History

Robert Johnson, assistant professor of Africana Studies, UMass Boston; coordinator of the James Bradford Ames Fellowship.

Boston's Museum of Afro-American History

Beverly Morgan-Welch, executive director, Museum of Afro-American History.

2000-09 (5/14/00)

Challenges in Education Reform

Paul Reville, Chairman of Massachusetts Educational Review Commission, faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and Executive Director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform.

Special Education: The Right to an Education for All Children

David Bartley, President, Holyoke Community College; former state representative.

2000-08 (5/7/00)

Music and the Internet

Reebee Garofalo, Author of Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA; editor, Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements; Associate Dean of College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston

The Classical Music Scene

Lloyd Schwartz, Classical music editor for the Boston Phoenix, and Professor of English, UMass Boston

2000-07 (4/30/00)

E-publishing

Mary Ellen Heinen, Vice President, Sales and Marketing of Glassbook

Celebrating the reading, literacy, and the printed page

Sharon Shaloo, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Center for the Book

2000-06 (4/23/00)

Exploring Mars

Jonathan McDowell, scientist at the Chandra X-Ray Center at the Harvard-Smithsonean Center for Astro Physics

Imagining Mars

Robert Crossley, Professor of English, UMass Boston

2000-05 (4/16/00)

Folk Arts in Massachusetts

Maggie Holtzberg, Folk Arts Coordinator, Massachusetts Cultural Council

The National Center of Afro American Artists

Edmund Barry Gaither, Director/Curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists in Boston

2000-04 (4/9/00)

The Big Dig and Massachusetts Communities

Michael Widmer, Directorof the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

Artifacts of the Big Dig

Stephen Mrozowski, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UMass Boston, director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archeological Research, and chief archeologist for the Big Dig

2000-03 (4/2/00)

Museums As Schools

Roger Dell, Education Director, Fitchburg Art Museum

The World Music Scene

Dana Westover, Host of Odyssey, heard weekly on WUMB Radio

2000-02 (3/25/00)

Creating Multiculturalism in Education

Sonia Nieto, Professor in School of Education, UMass Amherst; author of The Light In Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities.

Massachusetts and Immigration

Tripp Jones, Executive Director of MassInc.

2000-01 (3/18/00)

A Portrait of Dorthea Dix

Ellen Rothman of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

Mental Health Care for the Homeless

Dr. Martin Pildis, Medical Director, Tri-City Mental Health and Retardation