Historian Jill Lepore talks with Jim Fleming about Noah Webster and his dictionary. She says Webster thought Americans should have their own language and he celebrated American words.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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According to Nathaniel Philbrick, Melville’s classic “Moby Dick,” will always be worth our time and attention, no matter the age. He makes the case for reading what he calls a kind of "American Bible."
Journalist John Carlin talks with Steve Paulson about the 1995 rugby tournament that changed South Africa's history.
Janet Davis tells Steve Paulson that controversy has surrounded the use of animals in the American circus since the 1890s.
Politicians love to stump about the middle class and the American Dream. But the struggle to make a decent living in the United States isn’t just politics… it’s personal. Here’s a story from Arturo Camelot, a student at Tucson’s City High School.
Nidhal Guessoum, an Algerian born astrophysicist agrees that contemporary science in the Arab word is abysmal, but he looks back with great pride at the Golden Age of Islam.
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