U. S. Representative David Price on the Influence of Reinhold Niebuhr
In this excerpt from a podcast with National Humanities Center Robert D. Newman, U. S. Representative David Price reflects on the transformative experience of reading the work of Reinhold Niebuhr. Price notes how his exposure to Niebuhr in a Yale Divinity School classroom continues to shape his thinking about human nature and American democracy.
The writing of Reinhold Niebuhr
U. S. Rep. David Price (NC-4)
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Censoring Slaughterhouse-Five
In this excerpt of a talk given at the National Humanities Center, Robert D. Newman discusses an exemplary humanities moment, when Kurt Vonnegut responded to the banning and burning of Vonnegut’s book <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em> by school officials in Drake, North Dakota in 1973. Newman notes that this series of historical events involving the kinds of literature we read and teach “reveals the enduring truths in a democratic culture.”
A letter written by Kurt Vonnegut about the censorship of his novel <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em>
1973
Robert D. Newman, President and Director, National Humanities Center
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