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Ideas Matter - 98 Acres In Albany

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published August 21, 2015 at 10:33 AM EDT
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  It’s time now for our Ideas Matter segment – our weekly chance to check in with the humanities councils around our seven state region.

Today we learn about 98 Acres in Albany -- a community history project dedicated to documenting the people displaced and the structures demolished to make way for the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza.

David Hochfelder is an Associate Professor in the History Department at University at Albany and he joins us now.
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