David Taylor

Sep 19, 2024 | discoursemagazine.com | David Taylor

Environmental crime is one of the fastest-growing sectors of organized crime, generating hundreds of billions in illicit profits every year. I have previously described how environmental crime and organized crime have increasingly converged.

Jul 10, 2024 | oralhistoryreview.org | David Taylor

The Federal Writers’ Project, an initiative of the New Deal’s Federal Project One, included one of the first large scale oral history projects which employed out-of work writers and journalists to conduct interviews with 1000s of Americans, including many who had grown up enslaved. The narratives remains a vital record for understanding nineteenth and early twentieth century American life. And the project’s legacy has endured through fiction and historical writing.

Jun 20, 2024 | peoplesrecorder.info | Oneida Lives |David Taylor |Vine Deloria Jr.

Episode Summary​In 1977, Charlie Hill became the first Native comedian to perform on a national TV broadcast – a groundbreaking performance in television and cultural history.  “It was a huge moment,” said Seminole filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, “when Charlie Hill went on national television and simply spoke like a human being...

Jun 13, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | David Taylor

ABOUT THIS BOOK PUBLISHER: Emons Verlag GmbH ISBN: 9783740820640 RRP: £13.99 PAGES: 240 PUBLICATION DATE: September 9, 2024 By (author) David Taylor The Scottish Highlands are at the most northerly extreme of mainland Britain. The region was once a place of turmoil and bloodshed, of clan warfare and royal misadventure. Now the Highlands are somewhere to explore at leisure. It is a place rich in history, a land of hills and craggy mountains, of secluded coves and sandy beaches, and appealing...

May 1, 2024 | livingnewdeal.org | David Taylor

From 1935 to 1943 the WPA Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) employed around 10,000 people across the country to “hold a mirror up to America.” The FWP’s best known work is a collection of city and state guidebooks— the WPA Guides. Lesser known are the FWP’s interview recordings of everyday Americans living through the hardships of the Great Depression. The People’s Recorder, a national podcast, explores the people and legacy of the FWP in the voices of those who were there.