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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian and president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust tells Steve Paulson that Civil War deaths consumed the entire nation with grief and transformed America in many ways.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Azby Brown talks with Jim Fleming about the Japanese ideal of the very small house – sometimes 500 square feet for a family of four.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bowhunter Bob Stout provides a brief commentary on being in the woods.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Deborah Harkness has transmuted her expertise in early alchemy and Elizabethan magic into a pair of best-selling novels, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night.  We talk with her about the connections between magic and science.

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What makes Cuban music so distinctive? Radio host Jonathan Overby describes its history, which blends African rhythms with Spanish elegance.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Doug Peacock's Dangerous Idea? We need to save the planet before it's too late.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brad Hirschfield was once a religious fanatic. He was one of a small number of Jewish settlers living in Hebron, in the middle of thousands of Palestinians.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cecil Brown has researched the true story that gave rise to the Stagolee myth, and explains what the song has meant to various groups, especially within the African-American community.

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