America@250

Welcome to the America @ 250 Podcast, devoted to enabling us to see and feel America through the eyes and hearts of others, and as a result take concrete steps to make America truly great. My guest for this Episode is Tamara Lanier, author of the book, ‘From These Roots.” Tamara grew up listening to her mother’s stories about her ancestors. As her mother’s health declined, she "commissioned" her d...

Borders are not just geo-political…they are linguistic and cultural…and psychological. This Episode explores some aspects of these other borders and suggests that at least one avenue to greatness in America is more diversity, not less. More languages and cultures, not in isolated pockets, but embraced and welcomed and celebrated. This is my second interview with Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs. Please...

Imagine looking at AMerica as we know it, not as if there were a map, not as oif we are looking down from the sky, but as if we are on our backs looking up…from ancient land, before SPain and Russia, and the rest of Europe. Before Mexico. Before America. How would things look? That is just one topic I will talk about with my guest in this interview, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. Please see some of t...

In this second interview with Joey Williams (see below for more about him) we explore more tangible ideas about what might make America Great. There are a number of things Joey talks about that we could have learned, and should have learned, and still CAN learn, from indigenous peoples. These are things that, had we learned them, would have helped to make us great. Things which, if we do learn the...

The America @ 250 Podcast is devoted to enabling us to see and feel America through the eyes and hearts of others, and as a result take concrete steps to make America truly great. That seems like a fitting question during the year in which America turns 250. I am Kevin Caldwell, and in order to pursue the purpose of this project, throughout the podcast I will be inviting a very diverse set of gues...

Welcome to the America @ 250 Podcast, devoted to enabling us to see and feel America through the eyes and hearts of others, and as a result take concrete steps to make America truly great. That seems like a fitting question during the year in which America turns 250. I am Kevin Caldwell, and in order to pursue the purpose of this project, throughout the podcast I will be inviting a very diverse se...