Mike Jay joins guest host John McCaa to tell the stories of seekers who have experimented with mescaline in search of new states of consciousness.
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A Former Slave Tells His Story
Author Deborah Plant joins guest host John McCaa about the story of about a former slave’s life in Africa and America.
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Why Texas History is Outdated
Sam Houston State history professor Ty Cashion joins guest host John McCaa to separate fact from fiction when it comes to Texas legends.
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How The West Was Overrun
Christopher Ketcham joins us to talk about the American West is slipping away in part to commercialization and lax federal protections.
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A Road Trip With Henry Ford And Thomas Edison
Jeff Guinn joins us to talk about how Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford teamed up with Thomas Edison for a series of road trips to promote car ownership as a way of life.
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Why Beef Is What’s For Dinner
Notre Dame visiting professor Joshua Specht joins us to recount the complex history – filled with exploitation and innovation – of the beef we consume.
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When The U.S. Invaded Canada
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson joins us to revisit the major players and the battles in The Revolutionary War from a 21st Century perspective.
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George Will On The Origins Of Conservatism
Washington Post columnist George F. Will joins us to make the case that America needs to re-engage with the nation’s founding principles.
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Assessing America’s Trade Wars
Co-founder of Vox Media, Matthew Yglesias and Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, Maurice D. Kugler who is actually shouldering the brunt of tariffs between the United States and China.
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The Invention of Cities
Monica L. Smith, professor of anthropology at UCLA, joins us to explain how the development of cities – from Mesopotamia to the present – is strongly linked to the prosperity of humankind as a whole.
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A Marine Revisits The Battlefield
Veteran and writer Elliot Ackerman joins us to talk about the people he met upon returning to the Middle East after previous military tours.
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The Heartbreak that Shaped Barbara Bush
USA Today’s Susan Page joins us to talk about how former first lady Barbara Pierce Bush wielded power behind the scenes– as both the wife of a president and the mother of one, too.
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