American secularism • Civil War recollections 2nd of 8

(1) This week Talking History’s Fred Nielsen and Susan Jacoby discuss the history of secularism in America. Journalist Susan Jacoby is the director of the Center for Inquiry Metro New York and the author of "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism." (2) Replacing the program's commentary and site-of-the-week segments during our new fall 2005 season, Talking History will air a series of readings from an unpublished manuscript, "Recollections of Field Hospital Service During the War of Secession," the eyewitness narrative of German immigrant Theodore V. Brown (b. 1836). The reader is David Jones, a student in the graduate theater program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.