What role did religion play in the founding of our nation? This highly-debated topic is the subject of Dr. Forrest Church’s new book “So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State” (Harcourt, 2007). Church will join us for the hour.
What makes something a historical artifact and what roles do such artifacts play in our understanding of history? This hour we’ll discuss the 6th Annual Republic of Texas Exhibit with Alan Olson, Collections and Exhibits Director for the Dallas Historical Society. The exhibit is on display at Sterling Bank’s Greenville Avenue location in Dallas until […]
Think you know your American History? Think again. James Loewen, author of the newly revised and updated “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” (Touchstone Fireside, 1995, 2007) will set us straight this hour.
What does it take to march 1600 miles across one of the most desolate deserts in the world? We’ll spend this hour with adventurer Helen Thayer, whose new book is “Walking the Gobi: A 1,600 Mile-Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair” (The Mountaineers, 2007).
What is news? How is the media landscape changing? We’ll talk this evening with Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, who’s in town for the Greater Dallas Planning Council’s Metromorphosis Symposium.J. Larry Allums, Executive Director of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture will join us during the Scene segment to […]
What does it take to sell millions of books? Just ask best-selling author Ken Follett. Follett’s 17 best-sellers have included “Eye of the Needle” and “On Wings of Eagles.” His latest book, “World Without End” (Dutton, 2007), is the long-awaited sequel to 1989’s “Pillars of the Earth.” We’ll talk with Ken Follett this hour.
Just how big is the teen runaway problem in North Texas? According to Promise House, over 1000 area teens are without a permanently place to stay each night. We’ll discuss the “Who’s Sofa Surfing Tonight?” campaign with Dr. Harriet Boorhem, the executive director of Promise House this hour.
The brain is truly powerful. Just how powerful it is, however, is still a big mystery. We’ll shed a little more light on the mind-body connection this hour with New York Times science writer Sandra Blakeslee, who with her son has written the new book “The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body […]
What’s the latest news in the fight against breast cancer? We’ll explore advances in risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis and treatment this hour with Dr. David Euhus and Dr. Marilyn Leitch of U.T. Southwestern Medical Center.
Where is space exploration headed? Will we return to the Moon or make it to Mars? We’ll find out this hour with everyone’s favorite NPR space program reporter, Pat Duggins. Pat also works as senior news analyst at WMFE-FM in Orlando Florida. His new book is “Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space […]
