nonfiction

Part cultural history, part memoir, and part elegy, “Weeds” reminds us that in losing our attachment to the land we also lose some of our humanity and something at the heart of our identity as a nation.

We talk with Robin Hemley about his book "How to Change History," which grapples with the conflict between public and personal histories and the way memory affects them both.

Today we revisit our conversation with the editors of the book 'A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation.' Our guests are editors Timothy Hemmis and David Head.

Memory is not a rigid, static picture of what came before. Rather, it’s a nebulous, ever-changing conceptualization of who we were, what we believed, what happened to us, and what was happening around us.

Today historian Tanisha Ford will join us to talk about her biography of Mollie Moon, who was one of the most influential women of the civil rights era.

The year 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. It was also another year in an ongoing crisis of biodiversity loss, species extinctions, climate change, and natural disasters. On this episode we talk with Lowell Baier about the new books: The Codex of the Endangered Species Act, volumes 1 & 2.

We revisit our conversation with Will Grant, who rode the Pony Express trail himself, and talk about his new book, The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West.

Our guest for the hour is Stephen Armstrong. We discuss his new book, I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School.

What happens when beauty intersects with horror? Jehanne Dubrow joins us to talk about her newest nonfiction collection, Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity.

In this much-anticipated sequel of the book, Massacre at Mountain Meadows Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Vengeance Is Mine.