Introduction
This Library Guide provides searchable details about the content of America's Town Meeting of the Air, a radio program and periodical produced from the 1930s to the 1950s. America's Town Meeting of the Air served as a forum on matters of public interest in the United States of America. The periodical presented transcriptions of the addresses delivered on air.
For more than twenty years America's Town Meeting of the Air presented weekly addresses by prominent figures of the era speaking on national and world concerns such as World War II, peace, prosperity, race, economics, education, McCarthyism, the military, the cold war, and other international affairs. The program's speakers included such well-known persons as William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Francis E. Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold L. Ickes, Pearl Buck, Carl Sandburg, Norman Thomas, Walter P. Reuther, Langston Hughes, Richard M. Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, and Jackie Robinson.
Berea College's collection is extensive (131 issues) but not complete. To access these Curio Collection resources, please schedule a reading room appointment with Special Collections and Archives and request Curio 300 T743.
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Publication History Notes:
Volumes 1-2 (1935-1936) of America's Town Meeting of the Air were published by American Book Company.
Volumes 3-7 (1936-1942) were published by Columbia University Press as Town Meeting: Bulletin of America's Town Meeting of the Air.
Volumes 8-10 (1942-1944) were published by American Education Press as Town Meeting: Bulletin of America's Town Meeting of the Air.
Volumes 10-11 (1944-1945) were published by The Readers' Digest. as Town Meeting: Bulletin of America's Town Meeting of the Air.
Volumes 12-21 (1945-1955) were published by The Town Hall as Town Meeting: Bulletin of America's Town Meeting of the Air.
