Ep. 401 of The Sunday #NYTReadalong (America250)
- Neil Parekh
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Updated: 33 minutes ago
We are following up our 400th episode with a special Fourth of July Weekend Show, America250. We will review two special sections from The New York Times, “Six Sentences That Have Shaped the American Story” and “Visions of America: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Seven Everyday Founders.” We will also share your comments on America250.
*Scroll down for the special sections.
Sree Sreenivasan and I are hosting Ep. 401 of The Sunday #NYTReadalong on Sunday, July 5th at 8:30 a.m. ET, 12:30 p.m. GMT and 6:00 p.m. IST. If you miss the show, you can always watch the replay, right on this page.
As Tom Jolly, Print Editor of The New York Times, said on last week’s show, this is a special year. It’s America’s 250th, The New York Times’ 175th and The #NYTReadalong’s 10th Anniversary with 400 shows under our belt.
Watch the recording on this website or watch and comment on social media:
*Facebook will delete the video August 4.
“Six Sentences That Have Shaped the American Story”
“Six Sentences” refers to an examination of six sentences that have shaped America’s history:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
“The only question left to be settled, now, is: ‘Are women persons?’”
“From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the Freedman, until he should cease to be merely a Freedman, and should become a Citizen.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“But that’s just the trouble: too slow desegregation, too slow mass participation, too slow reunification. Too slow.”
“Make America Great Again.”
“Visions of America: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Seven Everyday Founders.”
Here’s the description of “Seven Everyday Founders” in The New York Times Magazine, “To mark the country’s 250th anniversary, The New York Times Magazine asked seven leading historians to each write about one of these “everyday founders,” a participant in the great drama of the nation’s birth whose story has rarely been told.”
The online treatment is really good. Looking forward to the print version in this weekend's Magazine.
Episode 400 with Tom Jolly, Wayne Kamidoi and Mike Connors
If you missed last week’s amazing show, you can watch the replay.
Tom was joined by Wayne Kamidoi, NYT Art Director and Mike Connors, Managing Director of The New York Times Production Department. We have had 275 guests on the show. These are three of our favorites.
Paula Kiger, a long-time producer of The #NYTReadalong, joined us as a special co-host. We also shared pdfs of three special sections from The New York Times on the Knicks.
Sree’s Sunday Note
Sree also wrote an essay on what he’d learned after 400 episodes. He refers to the show as a #LifeHighlight and writes about how the show is personal for us: "Each of our fathers taught us to love newspapers, the “Old Grey Lady” among them." Click through for two clips that help explain why the show helps us feel connected to our dads.
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