May is National Historic Preservation Month, and Cape Girardeau has certainly been among many towns across the nation that has taken strides to maintain their historic heritage. On Wednesday, May 20 Dr. Frank Nickell led a walking tour through downtown Cape Girardeau’s historic district.

Jacob McCleland spoke with Dr. Bill Eddleman, the chair of the Cape Girardeau Historic Preservation Commission about the walking tour and what participants could expect to see.

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The humanitarian crisis in Darfur has been going on since 2003, yet official international reaction has been very, very slow. Media coverage has been spotty, at best.

 A new collection of essays, The World and Darfur aims to examine the response of the international community to the genocide in Darfur and how it compares with the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s. The book is edited by Amanda Grzyb, who also contributed the essay “Media Coverage, Activism, and Creating Public Will for Intervention in Rwanda and Darfur.”

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The Ballad of Abu Ghraib is a new book by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris. It’s the story of the soldiers who appeared in the infamous Abu Ghraib photos in 2003 and the blurred distinction between lawlessness and law.  Jacob McCleland spoke with Gourevitch about the pictures and their resulting consequences for not only the soldiers involved, but also the country.

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