Georgia Perimeter College presents Lynn Gregory who is a national expert on communication and media from the University of Vermont. She discusses how perceptions affect the media and how the media affect perceptions. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.

While the holidays evoke the warm scent of gingerbread, the role of molasses in the eighteenth century world economy had a much larger impact than the kitchen. Historian Anthony Sammarco traces molasses from the slave trade to the abolitionist movement to the great molasses flood in Boston's North End. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.

On the 45th anniversary of President Kennedy's Rice University speech about going to the moon, NASA Astronaut and Needham, Massachusetts native, Sunita Williams shares her experience being a crew member of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. While on the International Space Station, Williams set a world record for women with four spacewalks totaling 29 hours and 17 minutes. Williams has logged a total of 195 days in space. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis tells six stories from the early years of the American Republic. He reflects on how the decisions made by the founders affected the shape of the young nation and on their creative achievements and failures. Despite the injustices and brutalities that resulted from the continuation of slavery and the repression of Native Americans, Ellis argues that the founders' strategy rose from a profoundly realistic insight about how enduring social change best happens. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.

Eric Jackson discusses Duke Ellington's A Sacred Concert with a panel on Winthrop, MA community access television. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.

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