New April 2023! Curator Stephanie Koch discusses “NWL (Nice White Ladies)” and art exhibition featuring works by Kelly Kristin Jones. Co-curated in collaboration with The Racial Imaginary Institute,...

New March 2023! Buzz Bissinger believes that having a common purpose during WWII, pulled the country together and he feels we need to find a new common goal to end divisiveness.

New March 2023! College football as officer training for war is a focus of Buzz Bissinger’s book, The Mosquito Bowl. He explains the Navy’s and Army’s thoughts on this idea.

New February 2023! Author Arundhati Roy feels that after studying a situation people must take a position or they are cowardly.

New January 2023! Ty Seidule, retired Brigadier General and professor emeritus of history at West Point, tells how de jure segregation, policy and laws led to the inequity of systemic discrimination.

New November 2022! Immigration brings light and darkness to cities. The light side is that new peoples bring new ideas, cultural ways, food and add a vibrancy to cities. But on the dark side, it br...

New November 2022! Author Ben Wilson explains how all ancient cities were built in areas that supported a lot of life in shifting, volatile spaces. Cities were first built to honor the cultures’ god...

New November 2022! Climate change in the 4th and 5th centuries spelled doom for the Romans but author Dan Jones feels that the pressures brought by the cyclical climate change laid down the foundatio...

New November 2022! Author Dan Jones revisits the Middle Ages in his book, Powers and Thrones. He brings a 21st lens to the study of this time period.

New November 2022! The spice and precious metals trade helped bring about the rise of cities that were quite cosmopolitan, unlike anything happening in Europe.

New October 2022! Conditional citizens are those whose access to the rights, liberties and protections of citizenship is curtailed by accidents of birth like race or gender, contends author Laila Lal...

New October 2022! Hear from author Laila Lalami about the status of women in the workplace and how progress has been slow.

New October 2022! The question of how the race categories of citizens were developed and applied is discussed by author Laila Lalami.

New October 2022! Author Laila Lalami discusses Border Patrol activities and how these are interpreted and supported by law.

New September 2022! Poverty levels between white rural areas and black urban populations are not very vast, according to authors Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn.

New September 2022! Hear from authors Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn about the different approaches the U.S. and Portugal took to address drug problems.

New September 2022! Author Eduardo Porter covers Contact Theory and how he sees it playing out in his neighborhood and across the country.

New September 2022! Author Jorge Contreras explains how patents are enshrined in the Constitution and touches on the importance of protecting peoples’ inventions.

New September 2022! Ben Westhoff discusses how harm reduction techniques accept the fact that while people will still use drugs the dangers can be reduced.