Love Canal Pt. 3 — Escape
Twenty years after Hooker Chemical buried its last metal drum in the depths of William Love's abandoned canal, local residents began experiencing health problems. The...
Love Canal Pt. 1 — Model City
In 1894, William T. Love broke ground on his grand vision — a utopian community which he called "Model City." His dream, however, would never come...
30-Second Nightmare: The Cleve Hill School Fire
30 Second Nightmare: On March 31, 1954, a wooden annex of Cheektowaga's Cleve Hill School caught fire in seconds, taking the lives of fifteen children...
Ida Dora Fairbush: Buffalo’s First African American Teacher
Historian Barbara Seals Nevergold, PhD, visits the show to discuss the life of Ida Dora Fairbush, the first African American teacher in the Buffalo Public...
Remembering the Sand Creek Massacre and the Founding of America
Following the UB Intercultural and Diversity Center’s efforts to shed light on the history of Thanksgiving, the Young Americans for Freedom, a campus student organization,...
Books You Should Read: Sofia Petrovna
In her novel Sofia Petrovna, Soviet dissident Lydia Chukovskaya offers an intimate portrait into the realities of the Soviet Union’s Great Purges of 1937 and...
Books You Should Read: The Inconvenient Indian
In his book The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, University of Guelph professor Thomas King discusses a period of...
Perspectives in History: Absentee Voting
As the United States grapples with an all-encompassing pandemic during an election year, questions of voting by mail have taken center stage in national dialogue....
Perspectives in History: Expanding the Supreme Court
At the turn of the 19th century, long before the fight to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Founding Fathers of the United States battled...
That Time We Almost Had 22 Hochstetters
The University at Buffalo is currently the largest university in New York, with over 31,000 students enrolled. However, when UB first joined the SUNY system...
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