When you’re talking with DG Martin, you’re talking to a veteran, lawyer, politician, administrator and author. DG’s been around the block a few times and you’ll hear his conversations with guests practically guaranteed to provide some of the most interesting back-and-forth you’ll hear all weekend.
One on One: William Leuchtenburg’s Legacy
UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg died on January 28. He was born on September 28, 1922.
February 8th, 2025
Chapel Hill’s Elizabeth Engelhardt, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts & Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her new book, “Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America”
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One on One: Mecklenburg Resolves in Context
Regular readers of this column may remember my interest in the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence dated May 20, 1775, a date enshrined on North Carolina’s state flag. In the January 14, edition of “The News of Davidson” historian Nancy Griffith reminded...
February 1, 2025
This week on Who’s Talking, we’re airing an episode featuring the late William Leuchtenburg, following his passing a few days ago. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was one of the leading historians of the American Presidency and a frequent guest on this program. He talks about the tasks and challenges new presidents face.
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One on One: Marching in a Presidential Inauguration
The recent inauguration of Donald Trump brought back memories of the 1965 event and our travel from Fort Bragg (now Liberty), an overnight at Marine Corps Base Quantico about 35 miles south of the Capitol in Washington.
January 25, 2025
Chapel Hill’s William Leuchtenburg, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leading historian of the American Presidency and frequent guest on this program, talks about the tasks and challenges new Presidents face.
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One on One: Why Am I Reading Mark Twain Again?
Why am I reading Mark Twain again? It has been more than 70 years Since my class at the Davidson Junior High school produced a play based on Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
January 18, 2025
Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”
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One on One: Panama and North Carolina Politics, Again
President-elect Donald Trump surprised many earlier this month when at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, he declined to assure the public that he would not use military coercion against Panama.
January 4, 2025
Getting to Carolina: The late Lennie Rosenbluth, hero of the 1957 championship victory over the University of Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain 54–53 in triple overtime, talks about how and why he came to Carolina and what it was like to play for Coach Frank McGuire.
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