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Everyday Conversations is intended for sixth- and seventh-grade students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL). Students can listen to and/or read dialogues in English. Topics of the conversations include introductions and small talk, shopping, asking for directions, hobbies, and giving advice.

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Early American Conversations is a podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies that invites listeners to dive deeper into the early histories and cultures of North America and the Atlantic world.

Tune in for in-depth conversations with authors of the most recent publications in the Early American Studies book series at Penn Press, as well as interviews with select authors from the series backlist and other special guests.

Available on Spotify, the series is a collaboration between Penn Press, Penn Libraries, and the McNeil Center. Our hope is to expand our community of scholars, public historians, students, and publishers.

McNeil Center Fellow and Season Two podcast host Adam Xavier McNeil interviews Penn PhD Candidate and former Early American Conversations host Anders Bright about the origins of Early American Conversations, memorable moments of his hosting tenure, and when Bright turned the tables on his dissertation advisor and asked her historiographic questions reminiscent of his comprehensive exams.

McNeil Center Fellow Adam McNeil interviews Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press. The interview discusses highlights of Lockhart's career, including one of the first books he worked on at Penn Press, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery by Jennifer L. Morgan, a cornerstone book that helped Lockhart develop the early American series into the robust series that it is today.

McNeil Center Fellow Adam Xavier McNeil interviews Cassandra Pybus about her essay Recovered Lives as a Window into the Enslaved Family," from the 2014 book, Biography and the Black Atlantic, edited by Lisa A. Lindsey and John Wood Sweet. Pybus discusses her research process, the extraordinary lives of the Thompson family from Norfolk, Virginia throughout the colonial and American Revolutionary eras, and one of her enduring legacies, Blackloyalist.info.

McNeil Center Fellow Adam Xavier McNeil interviews Morehouse College Professor of History, Frederick C. Knight, about his new book, Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom. During this interview, Knight discusses the origins of his inquiry into the history of Black eldership within the early African Diaspora, the role of Black elders in northern and southern life and culture, and how the intersection of race, gender, and age affected the development of Black institutional life in Philadelphia.

In this episode of Early American Conversations, MCEAS Fellow Adam Xavier McNeil discusses the recent conference "Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past" with Dr. Emma Hart, The Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center and Dr. Karin Wulf, Professor of History and the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

This continuing education online course by The Laboratory for the American Conversion is designed to help you understand how to have contentious conversations that don't escalate into the culture wars that have become all too common. You can apply this in your workplace and with family and friends.

The Laboratory for the American Conversation's methodology uses social theory, discourse analysis and large-scale surveys to uncover what values communities express when they enter into public discourse, and what threats they are trying to avoid.

During 2018, Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith visited rural communities around the country and gave away copies of her anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, to spark conversations about the power of poetry.

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Most of the conversations I have, and are present for, with family members and friends in the US are blandly competitive; there is a tacitly understood angle that any conversation is batted up in the big blue sky to be caught, run with, and won. These issues are quick and easy wins, as they center around the survival subjects you should work on when learning a new language:

There is one other person waiting, like me, and sitting in the chairs, like me, and watching the TV, like me. After 5 minutes, the gentleman turns to me and asks me questions about the story playing out on the news.

No charge. A free repair. Now, this happened to me in Scotland as well, but it feels different in the United States. Walking away without paying for something in America, it automatically feels like a trap.

I could almost enjoy the idea that American naivet has given way to American cynicism; it makes me feel more at home. But the idea that the government is spending each day thinking up new and more painful ways to lie to us, this is no less black and white than believing the United States has never put a foot wrong.

These conversations focus on the small, specific actions that give people a sense of confidence that we can work across dividing lines to create stronger, more equitable communities. The All-America Conversations Toolkit contains a wealth of resources and tips that can be applied to any kind of engagement effort.

Email [email protected] to set up your free All-America Conversations consulting call. These calls are a chance to discuss your local challenges and concerns around engagement or to answer questions about the Toolkit.

Compelling American Conversations- Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of Englishand Quotations for Intermediate American English Language Learners explicitly emphasizes American language, culture, and democratic values.

The primary audience is newcomers to the United States, recent and not-so-recent immigrants, who may be studying at an American high school, adult school, community college, or university. Focused on the needs and aspirations of intermediate English language learners, the text shows a variety of ways to create and sustain authentic conversations with a developing English vocabulary. Compelling American Conversations challenges intermediate English language learners to reflect and speak about their lives and experiences on 15 topics in class and in English. Knowing English should include the ability to speak English.

We also include academic vocabulary and more philosophical questions because American immigrants deserve the same level of sophisticated materials which international English as Foreign Language (EFL) students enjoy in the stronger international high schools.

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In the late 1980s, I was working on my MFA in playwriting at Columbia University when the chairman of the program, Howard Stein, invited Eric Bentley to be a guest speaker in our class. To say the experience was awesome for me would not begin to capture the spirit of the occasion. Eric Bentley was a rock star in the theatre world for us emerging theatre artists.

A decade later, after I had worked in the literary departments at various theatres (ranging from Playwrights Horizons to the now defunct Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays), I returned to Columbia to pursue a Ph.D. in theatre. One day, out of the blue, I had a stray notion unrelated to any of my classes: to sit down and have a conversation with Eric Bentley. This thought impelled me to send him a letter requesting an interview.

I wrote him back straightaway, highlighting how every aspect of his career had added to my intellectual growth: his scholarship, his involvement with Bertolt Brecht, and his own playwriting. In his reply, he asked what questions I would want to ask him. Using my research skills, I created 25 questions, which I sent him posthaste.

Finally, I wrote to him confirming that our correspondence had led to 15 questions he thought worthy of a discussion. I wanted to know, could I interview him now? I had given it my best and was prepared for the letdown. Fortunately, I got a positive response.

To say the interview went smoothly would understate its success; Studs Terkel would have envied the result. It was not just the content provided by Mr. Bentley; it was that, despite the difference in our class, race, age, and sexual orientation, we got on exceptionally well.

During the interview, Mr. Bentley was at ease, self-assured and not above bursting into laughter. His voice had a British cadence tempered by an American intonation. Most important, there was an insatiable curiosity in his eyes, which corresponded with his body language to search further, to get it right.

Mr. Bentley asked what I planned to do with the interview. I mentioned that I knew editors at several publications and could get them to look at it. He then ended our conversation on a harmonious note, saying that I should come by for lunch at some point. I assured him I would.

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