Writer Rachel Monroe discusses the moral and legal questions of finding objects – even bodies – in Texas and who has a right to display them, profit off them and even own them.
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Back when everybody hated Harry S. Truman
Author Jeffrey Frank talks about the man who authorized the use of the atomic bomb, his low popularity, and his policies that impacted civil rights.
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Royal scandals are nothing new: The story of Edward VIII
Author Andrew Lownie talks about George VIII, The Duke of Windsor, his ties to Nazi Germany, and the real story of his marriage to American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
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The social networks that helped Black communities thrive
Producer/director Shayla Harris discusses the networks and towns built for Black people, and the community and safety they brought.
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The point of tiny T. rex arms and other dinosaur mysteries
David Hone, paleontologist and senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, shares the latest in dinosaur research, from child-rearing to habitats – and what might be the next big dinosaur discovery on the horizon.
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What blind people wish you understood about their lives
Writer M. Leona Godin talks about the cultural and scientific history of blindness – and what sighted people should know about what it’s like to be blind.
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Nina Totenberg on her 50 years of friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg talks about how conversations with Ruth Bader Ginsburg developed into a nearly 50-year friendship.
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The unfinished work of Reconstruction
Peniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He joins us to assess the current push for racial equality – from the election of Barack Obama to Black Lives Matter.
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Everybody hates gerrymandering, but it’s here to stay
Professor Nick Seabrook joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the history of gerrymandering — even Abraham Lincoln was a victim — and why it’s not so easy to mitigate its effects today.
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Meet the migrant rebels who sparked the Mexican Revolution
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the Magónistas – brothers who fought for anarchy against the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz – and the very wealthy U.S. business owners they angered along the way.
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Why we can trace today’s America to Reconstruction
Kermit Roosevelt III, a professor of Constitutional law, joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how Abraham Lincoln’s vision of America and the Reconstruction period that followed served as a course correction.
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The people who inspired the Founding Fathers
Historian Marilynne Robinson joins guest host John McCaa for a look at the people and events that shaped the Founding Fathers’ principles.
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