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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?

Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. 
 
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Laurie King has written a series of novels featuring Mary Russell, a young woman who becomes Sherlock Holmes' partner and later his wife.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Margaret D. Jacobs studies early 20th century policies in both the U.S. and Australia, that removed indigenous children from their homes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Jonathan Rose tells Steve Paulson that some members of the British working class in Victorian England and the early 20th century read the classics and used them as a means of intellectual emancipation.

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Parker Palmer is a writer and educator who's spent a lot of time thinking about the question, "What makes life worth living?"

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What happens to your digital self when you die? Currently, Facebook lets users "memorialize" their pages, giving family members a virtual space to post rememberances. Religious studies professor Candi Cann believes new digital tools like these are changing the way we mourn, by letting anyone share their stories about someone who's died, and preserving social connections to departed loved ones.

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Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner- a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew- tell Jim Fleming how they came together after 9-11 with the goal of writing a children's book and shared their experiences and religious perspectives.

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