Mick Aston is an archeologist and the co-creator of the British television show “Time Team.” Aston and a crew of archeologists and scientists descend on a site and see what they can come up with in three days.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Fleming reports how a new generation of American Buddhist teachers are adapting the Buddha's two thousand year old message for 21st century American audiences.
Musue Haddad of Liberia went on a two-day trip to visit her parents in 1989. While she was on this trip, civil war broke out in her country. Haddad has not seen her parents or the rest of her family since.
John Haught is a Roman Catholic theologian at Georgetown University, and the author of “God After Darwin” and “God and the New Atheism.”
Philip Harvey tells Jim Fleming about using the profits from his porn business to underwrite his philanthropy.
For Women's History Month, we're celebrating one of history's forgotten women, Jane Franklin. Harvard historian Jill Lepore talks about why she chose to write a biography of Ben Franklin's sister.
Rob Nixon grew up near the ostrich farms of South Africa. He tells Steve Paulson about the 19th century fashion craze for ostrich plumes and the fortunes it created.
Rachel DeWoskin is a young American who was working in Beijing and became a TV star as the American vixen in "Foreign Babes in Beijing."
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