How did the collapse of the USSR’s European empire happen so quickly and peacefully in the waning months of the 80s? We’ll talk to Victor Sebestyen, author of “Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire” (Pantheon, 2009).
As wife of the nation’s second president and mother of the sixth, Abigail Adams influenced the founding days of the United States, but who was she really? We’ll talk this hour with Woody Holton, author of “Abigail Adams” (Free Press, 2009), a new biography on America’s second First Lady.
Why is the Korean War often overlooked in the canon of American military history? We’ll spend this hour with Bill Sloan, author of the new book “The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea – and the Marines – From Extinction” (Simon and Schuster, 2009).
How does the Holocaust continue to affect us today? We’ll spend this hour with Elliott Dlin, executive director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum, and Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Human Rights Education Program. They are part of a series of events on “Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point” this fall at SMU.
How did a grassroots political movement forever change the way that presidential campaigns are run? We’ll talk with David Plouffe, political strategist and author of the new book, “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory” (Viking, 2009).
What can we learn from children not yet old enough to graduate elementary school? We’ll talk this hour with award-winning teacher Phillip Done, whose new book is “Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind” (Center Street, 2009).
Who was documenting Fort Worth’s vibrant black community in an era when newspapers would not publish pictures of African-Americans? We’ll find out this evening with Bob Ray Sanders, whose new book is “Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White” (TCU Press, 2009). In the ArtandSeek segment, we’ll talk with Katherine Owens, Artistic […]
Were the lives lived offstage in the time of Shakespeare as intriguing as the legendary characters in his plays? This hour we’ll discover life inside London’s famous 16th-century playhouses with Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist at the Museum of London. He’s in town for the Boshell Family Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Why do hunger and famine persist and do we possess the knowledge and resources to feed the planet’s poor? We’ll talk to Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Roger Thurow, co-author of “Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty” (Public Affairs, 2009).
What is the current state of women’s healthcare in America? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States. She is in town to deliver the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture at SMU.
