OAH drops support for Talking History, killing the show apparently

The Organization of American Historians has decided to stop funding Talking History at the end of June. The decision apparently will kill the eight year old show that featured interviews with historians. The OAH is dealing with a large deficit as a result of last year's decision to switch its annual convention to San Jose after a hotel labor dispute in San Francisco. The show's host, Bryan LeBeau, has recently been the subject of unfavorable headlines after he was charged with plagiarism. Last year a blogger discovered that LeBeau had borrowed substantial portions of a commencement address from Cornel West. The charge cost LeBeau a new job as the dean of the University of Missouri, Kansas City.