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American Icons: This Land is Your Land

This is the national anthem we actually know the words to. Americans sing it at school and summer camp; Bruce Springsteen sang it at President Obama’s inauguration. Yet Woody Guthrie’s song was once branded anti-American, even Communist. Pete Seeger tells Kurt Andersen how Guthrie wrote it as a sarcastic response to “God Bless America,” and […]

An Afternoon with Pete Seeger

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An Afternoon with Pete Seeger

An Afternoon with Pete Seeger

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Fallingwater

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This summer, the Guggenheim Museum in New York is presenting a retrospective of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work. As part of our American Icons series, Studio 360’s Peter Crimmins finds out why Fallingwater was named the best building of the 20th century.

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