Documenting America’s History with Slavery with Clint Smith
Slavery has been called America’s original sin, yet its depiction in American history and schools remains surprisingly controversial. Clint Smith
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Karyl McBride on Healing from the Harmful Effects of Narcissism
Air Dates: March 13-19, 2023 Narcissism is difficult to confront whenever we meet it. It’s even more of a challenge
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Acclaimed Author Azar Nafisi to Receive Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square
NEWPORT, R.I.—Acclaimed author Azar Nafisi has been named the ninth recipient of the Pell Center Prize for Story in the
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Dissecting the New Wave of Hollywood Cinema with Pete Hammond
Air Dates: March 6-12, 2023 In the midst of a year that saw pandemic disease, social unrest, and bare-knuckled politics,
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Exploring our Hunger for Meaning and Experience with Tara Isabella Burton
Air Dates: February 27-March 5, 2023 In the flush of youth, some of us are prone to great bouts of
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Jeffrey Veidlinger on Anti-Semitism in 20th-Century Europe and Its Parallels Today
Air Dates: February 20-26, 2023 In the years after World War One, more than 100,000 Jews were murdered in pogroms
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Salve Regina University’s Pell Center Launches Nationhood Lab
NEWPORT, RI—Nationhood Lab, a new initiative focused on counteracting the authoritarian threat to American democracy and the centrifugal forces threatening the
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Gary Hart on Preserving the American Republic
Air Dates: February 13-19, 2023 Authoritarian impulses are rising in the United States and around the world. Gary Hart argues
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Pell Center Launches Ocean State Stories, A New Rhode Island-Focused Media Outlet
NEWPORT, RI— Ocean State Stories, a new journalism initiative from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University, launched Wednesday, Feb.
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