Fran Hirsch

Sounds and Us from Moscow to Madison Wisconsin Public Radio, © Copyright 2024, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.

For any of you who are masochists, you can now listen to me do my best quiet public radio voice for a whole hour in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio! We talk about sound, sensory history, Eastern Europe, and politics. www.wpr.org/shows/univer...

Ukrainian nuclear power plants lower output following Russian strikes, IAEA reports Ukraine’s nuclear power plants reduced their electricity production as a precautionary measure due to large-scale missile strikes targeting the country’s energy infrastructure, International Atomic En...

Ukraine’s nuclear power plants reduced their electricity production as a precautionary measure due to large-scale missile strikes targeting the country’s energy infrastructure, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement on Nov. 17.

Neat. I've been starting in the 1860s.. so Cold War is just a few weeks. The timing was... interesting.

And another from Look magazine--where they imagine and act out a communist invasion from Canada...

Both from Look magazine.

Teaching a couple of courses this semester on the long history of Russian-American entanglement. A few images from recent lectures on the House Un-American Activities Committee, McCarthyism, and the search for enemies within.

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