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Berkshire Concert Choir, a 100+ voice community chorus based in Pittsfield MA, will perform 'Questions and Answers: American Echoes,' which addresses the American experience through the lens of a diverse program of music that asks and answers questions on May 9th and 10th.On the surface "Q & A" music has the fun of a puzzle, but the program digs deeper into the essential American freedom to question and to hold diverse perspectives, through choral classics, pop and rock from Marvin Gaye, Dolly Parton, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, to Civil Rights era classics from Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger.

When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, the landmark case overturning Roe v. Wade, it marked a turning point in the lives of millions of Americans. It was also the culmination of a decades-long movement whose grievances were embodied by the man who wrote the court’s opinion: Samuel Anthony Alito Jr.Prize-winning journalist Peter Canellos will tell us about his new book:‘Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement.’ It is the first-ever biography of the most pivotal Justice on the Supreme Court whose decisions, like the overturning of Roe, will drive the reshaping of America.

Historian Andrew Burstein joins us this morning. He recently retired from Louisiana State University where he was a Professor of History and author of 'The Passions of Andrew Jackson,' 'Jefferson’s Secrets,' and numerous other books on American politics and culture. He is a Thomas Jefferson scholar, and he is the author of the new book 'Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History.'

"The Stories of John Cheever," published in 1978, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collection was honored with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and it would go on to sell millions of copies and to define the American short story and shape generations of writers. In "When All the Men Wore Hats," Susan Cheever looks back on her father’s work and seeks to understand the connections between art and life.

What comes to mind when we think of stadiums in the United States of America. For most of us its entertainment, football games, Taylor Swift concerts, monster truck rallies, and rodeos. But as historian Frank Andre Guridy reveals in his book “The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play,” over the past 150 years they have been where people gather to wrestle over defining the soul of America.

Jess McHugh is a writer and researcher whose work has appeared across a variety of national and international publications, including The New York Times,…

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