The Other O’Keeffe Sister

January 9, 2019 Culture, History

Sue Canterbury, Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, joins us to talk about Ida O’Keeffe’s underappreciated work, which has only recently gained attention.

How We’re Still Funding The Civil War

January 2, 2019 Economics, History

Brian Palmer of the Investigative Fund joins guest host John McCaa to talk about the millions of dollars tax payers spend each year to conserve memorials to the Confederacy.

When Slavery Uproots Your Family Tree

December 20, 2018 Culture, History, Race/Identity

Kenyatta D. Berry, host of “Genealogy Roadshow” on PBS, joins us to talk about using online archives to build a story of your family – and about how collecting this data is still challenging for descendants of slaves.

How We’ve Used Anne Frank

December 20, 2018 History, Literature, Race/Identity

Dara Horn joins us to talk about the most well-known victim of the Holocaust and what she might have become.

The Many Ways Presidents Leave The White House

December 18, 2018 Current Events, History, Politics

David Priess, who served in both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush White Houses, joins us to take a historical look at presidential removal.

Sons Of The Founding Fathers

December 6, 2018 History

Historian H.W. Brands joins us to talk about the men who put the Founding Fathers’ ideas to work.

The Odyssey Of George H. W. Bush

December 3, 2018 History

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.”