Oct 7th, 2008 · Host Michel Martin kicks off Rhode Island's Freedom Festival with a conversation on a bicentennial commemoration, marking the end of the transatlantic slave trade. Martin is joined by filmmaker Katrina Browne, Africana Studies professor Dr. James Campbell, Mary-Kim Arnold and the Rev. Jeffery A. Williams, head pastor at the Cathedral of Life.
Nov 21st, 2005 · The Lewis and Clark bicentennial commemoration kicked off with great fanfare and predictions that millions of tourists would turn out for the three-year celebration. Scores of isolated towns across the Great Plains and West planned huge and often expensive events -- but tourism numbers have been disappointing.
Apr 15th, 2005 · Michele Norris talks with Scott Mandrell, a teacher who originally played the part of Meriwether Lewis in the Discovery Expedition of St. Charles bicentennial re-creation of Lewis and Clark's journey, but now he has left that expedition to start one of his own.
Apr 2nd, 2005 · Denmark holds a weeklong festival in honor of fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, who was born 200 years ago on April 2. Scott Simon talks with Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank, translators of the author's work.