Daniel Finkelstein, a political columnist for The Times of London, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss his family’s history – a mother who fled Nazi Germany only to be sent to a concentration camp and a father whose family was sent to Siberia.
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Lena S. Andrews, a military analyst for the CIA, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the women who fought and died for this country in World War II.
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Author Beverly Gage discusses why worries about homegrown conspiracies led to erosions in civil liberties and set up Hoover to gain significant power.
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West Point English professor Elizabeth D. Samet talks about the picture of American exceptionalism that emerged post-World War II, the ways it has shaped domestic and foreign policy, and the myths it created.
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To mark is death at the age of 94, we’ll explore the many ways he put his stamp on the country with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, who joined us in 2015 to talk about his biography “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush.”
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Director Rob Rapley joins us to talk about the outsized influence a group of then relatively unknown scientists had on the outcome of World War II.
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Bruce Henderson joins us to tell the story of the fighters known as The Ritchie Boys, who acquired intelligence crucial to defeating the Nazis.
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Novelist Rachel Kadish’s grandparents survived the Holocaust. Novelist Jessica Shattuck’s grandparents were members of the Nazi party. They join us to talk about their friendship.
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Elizabeth Rynecki joins us to talk about the difficult task of rebuilding her great-grandfather’s collection of paintings that was lost after he was ushered off to the ghetto during World War II.
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This hour we’ll talk about how Churchill developed that toughness as a soldier fighting in South Africa with Candice Millard. She’s the author of “Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill” (Doubleday).”
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This hour, we’ll talk with Melody M. Miyamoto Walters on what she learned from reading her grandparents’ correspondence in Hawaii during World War II, the subject of her book “In Love and War: The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about the tricky business of working with other nations while maintaining our values with Ted Galen Carpenter, co-author of “Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes.”
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