Local poet and associate director of the Virginia Festival of the Book Kevin McFadden reads from his poetry in a November 6, 2006 event. Read more about Kevin and his work on archipelago.
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Sarah Arvio, Ten from Sono
 Photo of Sarah Arvio by Rigel Garcia de Cabada
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The poet Sarah Arvio reads ten poems from her new book, Sono. The reading took place on April 1, 2006, at Chapters Literary Bookstore, Washington, D.C. The poems can be read (and heard) on Archipelago, Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, Summer 2006.
The Virtuous Republic: A Civic Conversation
On Saturday, March 25, 2006, the online journal Archipelago sponsored a conversation at the Virginia Festival of the Book with the historians Barbara Clark Smith and Mark McGarvie. Katherine McNamara was moderator.
Mark McGarvie is the author of One Nation Under Law: America’s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History. He received the J.D. and Ph.D. from Indiana University and is adjunct professor at University of Richmond. He specializes in early American intellectual and legal history.
Barbara Clark Smith is a curator at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where she specializes in the history of politics and movements for reform. She has curated major exhibitions at the National Museum, and is working on a book on the topic of forms of liberty enjoyed by subjects of the British monarchy in 18th-century North America that became unavailable to citizens under the new United States in the 19th century, to be called The Freedomes We Lost: A History of Consent in Revolutionary America.
Katherine McNamara is Editor and Publisher of Archipelago.
The Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. For more podcasts from the 2006 festival, visit the U.Va Podcast site.
Race in America
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On Friday, March 24, the online journal Archipelago sponsored a conversation at the Virginia Festival of the Book that explores race in America after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education.
Speaking are journalist Nick Kotz (Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America) and attorney Sheryll Cashin (The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream). Faith Childs was the moderator.
The Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. For more podcasts from the 2006 festival, visit the U.Va Podcast site.
America Unbalanced
Has America gone too far in asserting its political, military, and cultural might in the world? If so, what does this mean for the way in which we live our lives? That’s the subject of America Unbalanced: An Historical, Ecological, and International Perspective, a panel discussion conducted Saturday, March 19 at the Virginia Festival of the Book.
Held in the Charlottesville City Council chambers, this 77-minute discussion is moderated by Katherine McNamara, the editor of the journal Archipelago. The three panelists are Geoffrey R. Stone (Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism), Hank Shugart (How the Earthquake Bird Got its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature) and Tom Miller (Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink).