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- The World in Time: Vicars of Christ The papacy, despite ups and downs, has enjoyed nearly 2000 years of uninterrupted rule. Lewis Lapham talks with historian John Julius Norwich about one of the most successful institutions the world has ever known.
- The World in Time: For King and Country In the First World War the fight wasn’t confined to the battlefield. Lewis Lapham talks with author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in Britain.
- The World in Time: What a Prince The reality of Machiavelli’s life and thought is surprising, considering his reputation. Lewis Lapham talks with historian Miles Unger about the Florentine father of modern political science.
- The World in Time: Another House Divided England’s textile industry depended on cotton, but the country abhorred slavery. Lewis Lapham talks with historian Amanda Foreman about Britain’s complicated and crucial role in the American Civil War.
- The World in Time: Trade Routes During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, England and the Ottoman Empire got along splendidly. Lewis Lapham talks with historian James Mather about a time when British foreign relations were more peaceful and diplomatic than they later became.
- The World in Time: Working on the Railroad Most would call the building of the Transcontinental railroads a triumph of capitalism and its genius tycoons, but a comedy of errors played by avaricious fools is closer to the truth. Lewis Lapham talks with historian Richard White about the various missteps and failures of the companies behind this major alteration of the American West.
- The World in Time: Birds of a Feather From writing quills to homegrown insulation, feathers have proven to be necessary for the survival of man and beast alike. Lewis Lapham talks with biologist and author Thor Hanson about one of nature’s most adaptable resources.
- The World in Time: Cheap Cadavers in Gay Paree Americans and the French have always been fascinated by each other. Lewis Lapham talks with noted historian David McCullough about Paris in 1830’s, when American medical students flocked to the City of Lights to get a real education
- The World in Time: Sex and Diplomacy in Nazi Germany When William Dodd was named America’s ambassador to Nazi Germany, neither he or his family knew what to expect. Lewis Lapham talks with author Erik Larson about the family’s affairs with the Nazis (not purely diplomatic) and eventual realization of what Hitler was really planning.
- The World in Time: War Wounds The Crimean War was the proving ground for Florence Nightingale’s now famous overhaul of battlefield medicine. Lewis Lapham talks with historian Orlando Figes about this hugely influential war.
- The World in Time: That Egyptian Woman Stacy Schiff’s remarkable new book on the life of Cleopatra sorts out the truths and half-truths about the ancient world’s most enticing and maligned ruler.
- The World in Time: The Sea, the Sea Simon Winchester’s new book The Atlantic is a biography of the massive body of water which has fascinated explorers, scientists, fishermen, pirates, and travelers for centuries.
- The World in Time: Occupational Hazards For artists in Nazi-occupied Paris, the choice was often collaborate or compromise. Alan Riding discusses French culture under Hitler in his new book And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris.
- The World in Time: Border Skirmish The war of 1812 didn’t take place entirely on the streets of Washington, it also was fought along the Canadian border, where former loyalists and revolutionaries vied to bring the region into the union. Alan Taylor discusses his new book The Civil War of 1812.
- The World in Time: London to Zion Historian Jonathan Schneer tells the tale of how the Rothchilds turned to Zionism, and other British origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, in his new book The Balfour Declaration.
- The World in Time: Fathoms Below Author Phillip Hoare has written an unusual biography of the world’s largest mammal in The Whale, in Search of Giants of the Sea—chasing the elusive leviathan in history and literature.
- The World in Time: The Secret Lives of Insects Anthropologist Hugh Raffles uncovers the dramatic lives and deaths of insects in his new book Insectopedia, from cricket fighting in Shanghai to the Japanese trend of keeping beetles as pets.
- The World in Time: Against the Current A formidable opponent for fishermen and an easy-to-raise source of food, the dominion of the Rainbow Trout has spread to every continent except Antarctica, explains Anders Halverson, author of An Entirely Synthetic Fish.
- The World in Time: On the Beach Historian Caroline Alexander, author of The War That Killed Achilles, deconstructs The Iliad as an unconventional epic of war.
- Day Jobs An interview with Marketplace Morning Report
