Feb 25, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with author Neil Lanctot about his book, The Approaching Storm. World War I is often buried in the shadows of WWII and yet while the U.S was a brief participant in the war it would change the course of our history and shape the 20th century. The book looks at this time period through the eyes of...
Feb 22, 2022
In this episode Matt Crawford speaks with author Neil Thompson about his book, The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty. Everyone knows the Kennedy name; it is what most people consider the closest to royalty that America has. Yet, the true origins of this dynasty are misunderstood and often attributed...
Feb 18, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with author William Hazelgrove about his book, Greed in the Gilded Age. Deemed the crime of the century in 1904 this is the story of the ultimate con. Claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of the robber baron Andrew Carnegie, Chadwick used greed, avarice and male chauvinism to dupe multiple banks...
Feb 17, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with author Keith Ryan Cartwright about his book, Black Cowboys of Rodeo. They ride and rope horses, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. These are Black Cowboys, and to do all that, they also had to fight racism and prejudice. Cartwright has collected and curated over 100 years of stories...
Feb 8, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with authors Chris De Pree and Sarah Scoles about their book Astronomical Mindfulness. We often think of looking inward when we think of Mindfulness and for a lot of us Astronomy can be a daunting subject to understand. De Pree and Scoles have found a way to combine the two ever so gently and create...