This hour, we’ll talk with Betty Boyd Caroli about her new book, “Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President” (Simon & Schuster). Boyd speaks tonight at Highland Park United Methodist Church’s Authors Live! event.
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This hour, as we broadcast live from KUT in Austin, we’ll talk about what we’ve learned from the wreckage of La Belle with Peter Fix, who oversaw the ship’s reconstruction for the Bullock Texas State History Museum.
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We’ll talk about how refrigeration has changed the way we eat and improved our overall health – and about what our fridges say about ourselves – with Jonathan Rees.
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This hour, we’ll talk about what was on the Civil Rights leader’s mind in the hours before his death with actor Hassan El-Amin and director Akin Babatunde, the team behind Dallas Theater Center’s production of “The Mountaintop.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how the discovery affects our understanding of our evolution with Lee Berger, the paleoanthropologist who led the excavation, as well as Marina Elliott and Hanna Morris, who were also on the team.
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This hour, we’ll get to know the only American ever elected governor of two states with biographer James. L. Haley.
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We’ll talk about why our species developed the arts – and how we came to value them – with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, author of “The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how the city preserved its vibrant culture and recovered from the disaster with Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City.
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We’ll talk about how views have changed in the years since the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with UMass Amherst history professor Christian Appy.
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We’ll talk about how we beat out all other animals to become the planet’s dominant species with Curtis W. Marean, associate director of Arizona State’s Institute of Human Origins.
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We’ll talk about John Thompson’s original intent for the submachine gun – and the ongoing debate it sparked – with Dallas author Karen Blumenthal, author of Tommy: The Gun That Changed America.
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A young Congolese man was included in an anthropology exhibit at the World’s Fair before being put on display in the New York Zooligical Gardens’ Monkey House – at the turn of the 20th century,
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