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Books about cooking were featured in this special holiday episode of Read This Book! — Books to Give 2016, Volume 4, from the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Megan Kocher, Curator of the Doris S. Kirschner Cookbook Collection, and host Lisa Von Drasek, discussed and recommended two books to give as gifts.

The books are:

* Come, You Taste: Recipes from the Iron Range 

by B.J. Carpenter

* The Vegetable Butcher

by Cara Mangini.

View all four episodes on YouTube

About Lisa Von Drasek and Megan Kocher

Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Megan Kocher is Curator for the Doris S. Kirschner Cookbook Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

About Read This Book!

Read This Book! is a video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is available on YouTube and iTunes.

By Karen Obermeyer-Kolb

Our episode today will be the last for 2016, and the podcast will return mid-January. Thank you for tuning in every other week for our attempt to bring you this sampling of the variety of history and programming produced by the campus radio stations for the U and the greater Minnesota area.  

When selecting digitized audio from the myriad of topics and programs in the collections here at University Archives, it can be a struggle (although, a delightful one) to choose one episode over another. Today we are featuring an episode from 1979 of the discussion program, Minnesota Issues. The host for the show, Arthur Naftalin, introduces the pessimistic atmosphere of the country but finds that the younger generation still has hope looking ahead to the 1980s.

Hear how his guests, Humphrey School graduate students, remain cautiously optimistic and strong willed in fighting for a difference despite the turmoils of the 1960s and 70s and the lack of leadership they see in the upcoming election. This episode was chosen as a message of hope to end this year and bring in the new with sincere wishes that, as stated by one of the program’s guests, “the enthusiasm and the energy of the human spirit can break through.”

You can listen to the episode here in the browser and read the script below.

Episode 5: Looking ahead to the 1980s

You are listening to U of M Radio on Your Historic Dial podcast and this is episode 5: Looking ahead to the 1980s

Hello! Karen here, project archivist at the University of Minnesota Archives, today we are tuning into the program Minnesota Issues with an episode that aired December of 1979.

Arthur Naftalin, 1969. University Archives.

The program was hosted by Arthur Naftalin on the University Television Hour and rebroadcast over KUOM from 1976 through 1988. At the time, Naftalin was a Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, but he had held other instructional and staff positions before at the University, including editor of the Minnesota Daily. He also worked closely with Hubert H. Humphrey on merging the democratic and farmer-labor parties in the 1940s and had various political positions in the 1950s and 1960s, including being the Mayor of Minneapolis from 1961 through 1969, before returning to the University of Minnesota.

Arthur Naftalin teaching in the Department of Political Science, 1952. University Archives.

On this episode he has invited graduate students from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, now the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, to discuss the future as they see it entering the new decade. I think you’ll find some of their statements and feelings of hesitation and hope can still ring true more than 30 years later. Naftalin, or Art, as he is often referred to on the show,  introduces a pessimism and atmosphere of despair in the country, yet his students surprisingly remain fairly optimistic. In the next clips Elizabeth describes how important optimism is and fellow student, Tom, adds that although optimistic he is cautious and explains how given the events of the turbulent past decade it has shaped a different way of thinking for his generation.

Inside cover of "Minnesota: the Magazine of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association," June 1979. University Archives. 600 protesters rally against the "new draft," the proposed registration for the Selective Service System.

Books about cooking was the subject of this special holiday issue of Read This Book!: Books to Give 2016, Volume 4. Megan Kocher, curator of the Doris S. Kirschner Cookbook Collection recommended two books to give as gifts: "Come, You Taste: Recipes from the Iron Range" by B.J. Carpenter, and "The Vegetable Butcher" by Cara Mangini.

In this episode of "U of M Radio On Your Historic Dial," we feature an episode from 1979 of the discussion program, Minnesota Issues. The host for the show, Arthur Naftalin, introduces the pessimistic atmosphere of the country but finds that the younger generation still has hope looking ahead to the 1980s.

Books about architecture were featured in this special episode of Read This Book! — Books to Give 2016, Volume 3, from the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Cheryll Fong, interim curator for the Libraries' Northwest Architectural Archives, and host Lisa Von Drasek, discuss two books high on their recommended list. 

The books are:

* Edwin H. Lundie, Five Decades: A Journey of Art and Architecture

by Peter J. O'Toole

* Minnesota Modern

by Larry Millett

View all four episodes on YouTube

About Lisa Von Drasek and Cheryll Fong

Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Cheryll Fong is Interim Curator for the Northwest Architectural Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

About Read This Book!

Read This Book! is a video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is available on YouTube and iTunes.

Books about architecture were featured in this special episode of Read This Book! — Books to Give 2016, Volume 3, from the University of Minnesota Libraries. Cheryll Fong, interim curator for the Libraries' Northwest Architectural Archives, and host Lisa Von Drasek, recommended "Edwin H. Lundie, Five Decades: A Journey of Art and Architecture" by Peter O'Toole and "Minnesota Modern" by Larry Millett.

J. Ryan Stradal and food writer Beth Dooley embarked on a delightful excursion through today’s food scene with stories of farmers, cheese makers, butchers, home cooks, chefs, sommeliers, and restaurateurs at the 3rd Kirschner Lecture December 1, 2016 at Cowles Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. 

Books about Sherlock Holmes were discussed in this special episode of "Read This Book! — Books to Give," featuring Tim Johnson, curator of Rare Books and the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Johnson recommends three books about Holmes in Books to Give 2016, Volume 2, hosted by Lisa Von Drasek. The three books are: "Nerve and Knowledge," "The Missing Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes," and "Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899." Read This Book! is a production of the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Recommended books

Nerve and Knowledge, edited and introduced by Robert S. Katz and Andrew L. Solberg

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

* From the Baker Street Journal

The Missing Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by McKuras, Johnson, Riethmeier, and Bergem

* From the Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota

Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 By Bill Peschel

* From University of Minnesota Libraries

View all four episodes on YouTube

About Lisa Von Drasek and Tim Johnson

Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Tim Johnson is Curator of Special Collections and Rare Books and the E. W. McDiarmid Curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

About Read This Book!

Read This Book!

Tim Johnson recommends three books about Sherlock Holmes in "Books to Give 2016, Volume 2," hosted by Lisa Von Drasek. The three books are: "Nerve and Knowledge," "The Missing Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes," and "Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899." Read This Book! is a production of the University of Minnesota Libraries.

By Karen Obermeyer-Kolb

Wednesday marks 75 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii which led to a declaration of war by the United States against Japan, Germany, and Italy and the country’s official entry into World War II.

These events are familiar to anyone who has had a class on United States History, but today our podcast focuses on the events on the homefront following the Battle of Pearl Harbor. Specifically we will listen in on a discussion from 1946 on the discriminatory removal and, then, resettlement of persons of Japanese ancestry with Frank M. Rarig, Lauren Stiefel, and Reverend Daisuke Kitagawa. You can listen to the episode in the browser here and read the script below.

Episode 4: Pearl Harbor and Japanese Americans

You are listening to U of M Radio on Your Historic Dial podcast and this is episode 4: Pearl Harbor and Japanese Americans

Hello! Karen here at the University of Minnesota Archives. In recognition of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day on December 7th and the 75th anniversary of the U.S. entering WWII, I chose an episode from the program The World We Want. This program ran from January of 1943 through at least July of 1946. The program was sponsored by the Key Center of War Information and the University of Minnesota’s Department of Speech, broadcast weekly over the radio station WLB, the previous call letters of KUOM.

Key Center of War Information staff. The Minnesota Alumni Weekly: Special War Activities Issue, May 2, 1942. University Archives.

Our episode today is from Special Bulletin No. 145 : Post-War Resettlement of Persons of Japanese Ancestry which aired February of 1946, five months after World War II was declared over. The show begins with a description of the events following the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Frank Rarig, professor of Speech at the University of Minnesota.

Guests for this discussion included Lauren Stiefel of the Minneapolis College Women’s Club, and Reverend Daisuke Kitagawa, or “Dai,” director of the United Ministry of Japanese Americans in the Twin Cities area. Rarig asks Stiefel to describe the political and personal interest behind the forced removal efforts,which included economic competition and general resentment.  Skipping ahead a bit in the episode,  the three of them talk about how this action, this incarceration of a large population that included many legal residents and American citizens, was not similarly applied to other Axis power ancestries such as the Germans and Italians living in the United States. Close to 70% of the persons of Japanese ancestry forcibly removed were American citizens.*

Next, we’ll hear about the mixed interest and disapproval of military service provided by Japanese Americans, by their community and others. As well as how secrecy in military interest for certain dangerous missions done by Japanese Americans did not allow for recognition of their participation in the war effort.

This discussion makes it fairly clear how tense the atmosphere truly was. Kitagawa discusses how much pressure there was in not just the incarceration or military service, but in simply staying or leaving the United States. During the war many Japanese Americans had been deported or coerced to give up dual citizenship by family pressures to remain loyal to Japan or simply to avoid military service.The War Relocation Authority camps had been ordered to be closed in January of 1945, but closed fairly slowly as the resettlement of Japanese Americans included just as must discriminat...