Tamar Charney

4 days ago | michiganpublic.org | Tamar Charney

Can beauty hide in the ugliness of rust, rot, or even in an old outhouse? An urban sketching class has made writer Tamar Charney notice something most of us probably try to overlook. I’ve been paying attention to outhouses. Yup! Porta potties. Unless nature was calling when I was out and about, they weren’t at all on my radar. But once I started noticing them, they seemed to be everywhere. In the school parking lot. In front of every construction project in my neighborhood.

Oct 17, 2024 | npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Laine Kaplan-Levenson |Julie Caine |Lawrence Wu |Parth Shah | +3 more

Drunken brawls, coercion, and lace curtains: believe it or not, how regular people vote was not something the Founding Fathers thought much about. Americans went from casting votes at wild parties in the town square to doing so in private booths, behind a drawn curtain. In this episode, the process of voting: how it was designed, who it was meant for, and the moments when we reimagined it altogether.

Oct 3, 2024 | npr.org | Ramtin Arablouei |Rund Abdelfatah |Lawrence Wu |Devin Katayama |Julie Caine |Casey Miner | +7 more

Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that people are willing to kill and die to control it. And that struggle goes back centuries. Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as the First Crusade: an unprecedented, massive military campaign to take Jerusalem from Muslims and claim the holy city for themselves. They won a shocking victory – but it didn't last. A Muslim leader named Saladin raised an army to take the city back.

Nov 9, 2023 | npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Julie Caine |Laine Kaplan-Levenson |Lawrence Wu |Victor Yvellez | +2 more

Grenada: Nobody's Backyard (2021) Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1198908205/1211689413" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Grenadians watch a landing convoy during the Grenada Invasion of 1983. On October 25, 1983 the United States invaded the island of Grenada after the Grenadian Army, controlled by former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, seized power of Grenada in a bloody coup.

Sep 28, 2023 | npr.org | Rund Abdelfatah |Ramtin Arablouei |Tamar Charney |Julie Caine |Laine Kaplan-Levenson |Lawrence Wu | +3 more

Tenochtitlán: A Retelling of the Conquest (2021) : Throughline In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards conquered the mighty Aztec Empire, in the heart of what's now modern Mexico City, has become a foundational myth of European dominance in the Americas. And for a long time it was largely accepted as truth.