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John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Q-90.1 FM, Delta College Quality Public Radio.
Mark Twain imagines the diaries of the original couple and their observations of this new world. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapubl...
"The Elephant Whisperer" tells the story of 20th-century conservationist Lawrence Anthony and his ability to communicate with wild elephants...
Stephen Smith's "The First Lady of Radio" examines Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the first first lady to do regularly-scheduled radio programs...
Alexis de Tocqueville was born in France 62 years after Thomas Jefferson, but the parallels between them are remarkable. Support Delta Colle...
Herodotus of Athens was the first significant historian. This idea was so new that he didn't even call his stories of the wars between the A...
It's remarkable to realize that Gershwin, the favorite American modernist composer, was born when many Civil War veterans were still alive....
There is a mystery around the death of Edgar Allen Poe and John Walsh is convinced he has solved the case.
In 1903, on a $50 bet, Horatio Nelson Jackson set out on the first journey by car from San Francisco to New York.
The most famous English diarist, Samuel Pepys, lived in the 1600s and the phrase "may you live in interesting times" certainly applies.
If there's a 20th century world champion subject for biography, it would have to be Winston Churchill. Fortunately, a small door has been op...
For 2000 years, the great scientific authority in the West was Aristotle. But by the time the Pilgrims were landing at Plymouth Rock, a new...
Today's book combines two autobiographical pieces: one a travelogue of Europe and an account of the first World's Fair, the other an account...
One of the great collaborators on the Great American Songbook was lyricist Yip Harbug.
Lady Constance Lytton was a British aristocrat and suffragette who shed her noble trappings to go on a hunger strike for women's right to vo...
Only one Native American chief won a negotiation with the U.S. government: the Apache leader, Cochise.
How many great novels should a writer be expected to produce to qualify as a great novelist? Thomas Hardy wrote a half-dozen acknowledged cl...
Early in the twentieth century, Albert Barnes created a fiefdom in suburban Philadelphia that embraced his grand house, his art museum, his...
Born into slavery when it was still legal in New York, Sojourner Truth was a powerful orator on faith, women's rights, and the abolition of...
Early sailors could navigate by latitude to sail east and west, but sailing north or south was much more difficult until John Harrison solve...
Twelve generals have been U.S. president. Among them are George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and today's subject, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Many people contributed to the idea of a computer being a machine rather than an occupation, but the biggest leap forward came from Alan Tur...
Authors who spread the Protestant Reformation risked censorship, imprisonment, or even death, including Michael Servetus, who was burned ali...
In the late 1950s, white author John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a Black man to experience the state of race relations in the segreg...
While Kosciuszko's family was part of Poland's upper 10%, this military leader's sympathies were for the disenfranchised.
Machu Picchu was built mere decades before the Spanish invasion of South America, yet almost no one knew about it until the ruins were disco...
Return with us now to a time when bright and ambitious students studied vocabulary lists to enhance their erudition and learn about a man re...
There is a select group of people who have become prominent in history because of one brief moment in their lives. For abolitionist Congress...
King Edward of England's brutal execution of William Wallace was meant to intimidate the Scots, but instead it inflamed them and a new leade...
John Hay would serve every Republican administration from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt even though he was never elected to office hims...
There is a cliché that artists must struggle, but Frida Kahlo must hold the world record.
How could the famously enlightened city of Athens execute one of its most outstanding citizens? A reporter covers a trial held 2,400 years a...
Today's review covers the second half of Walt Disney's career, following up on the success of Mickey Mouse and Snow White.
A century ago you could see many bizarre sideshows on the boardwalk at Coney Island. But one of these was not an act, but a system that save...
Years ago, I read a fine biography of Gershwin, but I decided to read a more recent one and, sure enough, I'm impressed by Gershwin all over...