Links and Resources
The Chicago Public Radio program Eight Forty-Eight provides an audio library of Studs Terkel's interviews and readings commemorating his 90th birthday. Personalities include hibakusha Tammy Snider, writer Garrison Keillor, and actor John Mahoney.
Sponsored by the Chicago Historical Society, this site streams over 500 selected sound recordings of interviews from his many books, and panel discussions from his radio program at WFMT in Chicago. It also features biographical materials and tutorials on how to conduct oral interviews for beginners.
A special section of The Transom Review featuring conversations and writings of Studs Terkel, who delivers a manifesto about a life spent listening and about the potential of public radio.
Watch the video and read the transcript of an interview with Terkel on October 29, 2003, as part of the UC Berkeley, Institute of International Studies "Conversations with History" series.
Listen to Terkel describe the nature of Bughouse Square and his experience watching Lucy Parsons speak about the Haymarket bombing of 1886 at that very place.
A published interview appearing in the October 12, 2001 edition of The Atlantic Monthly. In it, Terkel talks about hope, September 11, and why Americans must think anew.
A featured section of The New York Times reviews of Studs Terkel's books and published articles, including Loudon Wainwright's October 7, 1984 review of Terkel's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Good War: An Oral History Of World War Two.
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Terkel was a radio personality and author who published 20 books on central themes and events in American life. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1984 oral history of World War II, The Good War. He died on October 31, 2008.
