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, in honor of Presidents’ Day, we’ll talk with Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU. He’s the editor of “The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea.”
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This hour, we’ll talk to Stephen Harrigan about “A Friend of Mr. Lincoln,” a fictionalized look at the 16th president’s formative years.
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This hour, we’ll look at how Bonnie and Clyde wreaked havoc on North Texas during the Depression with John Maggio.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how our environment can open the door to innovative thinking with Eric Weiner, author of “The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how the Earth and living creatures may have evolved together, the subject of the upcoming NOVA documentary “Life’s Rocky Start.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how the end of the Great Depression and World War II are inextricably linked with historian Eric Rauchway.
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This hour, we’ll peek into the minds of Pablo Picasso, Thomas Edison, John Lennon and others with psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman.
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We’ll talk with about how the discovery of a family home movie sent a man on a transcontinental mission to reconstruct the memory of his ancestral home.
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This hour, we’ll talk about Parkland Hospital’s storied past with Dr. John Boyd, and anesthesiologist who trained at Parkland who has written a new history of the hospital.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how North America came to bet and how life evolved here with paleontologist Kirk Johnson.
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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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