Season 3

Bill Hammack follows in the illustrious footsteps of Don Herbert ("Mr. Wizard"), Carl Sagan and Bill Nye the Science Guy (and, to some exten...

The Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain remains with us today but when Piggly Wiggly first appeared on the scene in 1916 it was part of a whole new concep...

As co-founder of the Rails to Trails Confederacy, Peter Harnik has visited 207 rail trails across the United States as part of his work on a fascinati...

There are a lot of baseball books out there but few delve into the kind of detail that Steve Gietschier (rhymes with "itchier") delivers in ...

America was a nation of farmers in the 19th century. As R. Douglas Hurt notes in his book, "Agriculture in the Midwest 1815-1900," someone i...

Come with us now to a stretch of lonely desert in New Mexico during the latter days of World War II. Under extreme secrecy, there’s activity here that...

As the co-founder of American Prairie, Curtis Freese is an ecologist working to help restore the wildlife in the grasslands of the Great Plains. His b...

“It attacks old and young alike,” declared the Pike County Democrat in 1866. The Illinois newspaper wasn’t talking about a cholera epidemic but baseba...

The battle for civil rights in the United States has always involved people willing to stand up and be passionate about what they believe. Two of thos...

“It attacks old and young alike,” declared the Pike County Democrat in 1866. The Illinois newspaper wasn’t talking about a cholera epidemic but baseba...

Public broadcasting wasn’t some grand plan that just happened. Josh Shepperd traces the setbacks, minor victories and hard work that had to take place...

Mark Dawidziak has a new book out, this one on Edgar Allan Poe. It takes its place on the bookshelf alongside other volumes Dawidziak has written. It’...