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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Winning WWII didn’t win Black military members their civil rights
Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College, joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the Black leaders who shined a light on the racism at home after fighting fascism abroad.
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The FBI was never the same after WWII
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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Meet The Woman Pilots of WWII
Katherine Sharp Landdeck, associate professor of history at Texas Woman’s University and a Guggenheim Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, joins us to talk about these trailblazing female aviators.
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How Churchill Got Britain Through the Blitz
Author Erik Larson joins us to talk about Winston Churchill’s bold leadership style that willed his nation back from the brink.
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The Odyssey Of George H. W. Bush
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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War And Peace On Iwo Jima
This hour, 70 years after the fight, we’ll talk about how participants on opposite sides have returned to the island as friends with historian Dan King.
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Music And Liberation
Pianist Mona Golabek writes about how her mother narrowly escaped the Nazis of war-torn Vienna in ‘The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival.’
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Running From The Nazis, Together
It took Anthony Doerr 10 years to write his novel about a blind French girl and a German boy in exile during the Nazi occupation in France. He won a Pulitzer for it.
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