“Your speech on ‘Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting’ provided an entertaining and provocative understanding of the challenge to our democracy of corporate media monopolization. Your talk was a deeply felt call for urgent public broadcasting reform, and your stories of successful citizen action to improve community stations were inspiring. We appreciated your articulate explanations, and we admired your ability to respond thoughtfully to such a diversity of questions in the Q&A period.”

-Jewell Fenzi, Chair, Telecommunications Task Force,
Women’s National Democratic Club

“…my sincere thanks for your powerful presentation—‘The Great Textbook War: Public Education in the Balance’—at [our] symposium…Your paper was extremely well-developed and certainly captured the essence of the session’s debate…interesting and provocative.”

- Harvey Holtz, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Starr understands the failure of the American education system to provide material on the Vietnam Era…He knows exactly what information college students need to make sense of that period of American history…I highly recommend Starr as a speaker. He is knowledgeable, well-prepared, and generates thoughtful questions from his audience.”

- Stephen Papson, Associate Professor of Sociology, St. Lawrence University

“I want to thank you for your invaluable participation at our recent National Leadership Conference. We received numerous positive comments about your workshop and many VVA chapters will benefit as a result of your excellent presentation.”

- Mary R. Stout, President, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.

“The teachers have high praise for the workshop…I am confident that the quality of teaching about the Vietnam War will be greatly improved in the classrooms of Oakland County as a result of your published materials and your effective presentation of them. Thank you for contributing so competently to the professional development of our social studies teachers.”

- David Harris, Social Studies Education Consultant, Oakland County (MI) Schools

“…excellent workshop…The evaluations were overwhelmingly positive and even those who have attended your workshops before commented that they came away with some new ideas.”

- Richard H. Wilson, Coordinator, Social Studies, Montgomery County (MD) Schools