The Melting Pot
October 7, 2015We’ll look at the lasting impact of the Immigration and Nationality Act through the lens of one Virginia county with NPR’s Tom Gjelten, author of “A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story.”
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Reviewing Reagan
June 3, 2015Ronald Reagan guided the U.S. through the last days of the Cold War and ushered in a new breed of conservatism that still reverberates today. We’ll take inventory of his legacy this hour with biographer H.W. Brands.
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Immunization Nation
November 25, 2014We’ll talk this hour about how politics and social concerns have directed medical policy with Emory University assistant history professor Elena Conis. Her new book is Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization
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Losing The Passenger Pigeon
August 11, 2014We’ll talk this hour about what happened to what was once the most populous bird in the North American sky with naturalist Joel Greenberg.
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All Aboard
July 23, 2014We’ll talk this hour about the demise of America’s railroads – and if they will ever make a comeback – with Kevin Baker, who writes about the lost glory of train travel in the July issue of Harper’s.
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Something Smells Fishy
July 16, 2014More than 90 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported. We’ll talk this hour about why a nation bordered by two oceans gets its fish from other countries with the author of “American Catch.”
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Glenn Ligon's AMERICA
February 8, 2012Where do we find the pivotal cultural moments in American history and how might an artist’s distillation of those experiences enhance our identity as Americans?
