Love in the Digital Age
Stumbling into your soulmate while running errands used to be romantic. But Jenny Rosier says this romcom fantasy has gone out of style. She...
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Each week on With Good Reason, our ever-curious host Sarah McConnell takes you along as she examines a wide range of topics with leading scholars.
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Voices Behind Walls
College classrooms are opening up behind federal prison walls, sparking a massive shift in American higher education. Driven by the return o...
America After 1619
In late August 1619, twenty or more enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia at what’s now called Fort Monroe. They were the first Africans doc...
Rights to Nature
The James River provides drinking water for 1 in 4 Virginians. But it was once the most polluted river in America. Justin Black and Will Gem...
Jazz and Civil Rights
The personal and professional lives of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane cannot be divorced from the struggl...
Healing from the Holocaust
After liberation, concentration camp survivors were left a shell of themselves - malnourished, diseased, and traumatized. Children who lost...
The Pursuit of Happiness
What did Jefferson mean by “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”? Adam Potkay explains the moral and philosophical world behind the p...
Counting Plants
Little babies and potted plants: the stationary, the helpless... the hardest working beings in the room. Peter Vishton found that babies and...
Mow Lawn, Mo Problems
What if a well-manicured lawn isn’t the end all be all? What if it’s actually harming the local habitat? Doug Tallamy is the co-founder of H...
Audacious Women
A new one-woman show tells the story of Virginia’s history through the eyes of ten audacious women. From the Civil War to the Harlem Renaiss...
America the Beautiful
From Marian Anderson’s 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial to Marvin Gaye singing the National Anthem at the NBA Finals, the theme of patri...
Stories for the Semiquincentennial
In 1976, the Bikecentennial became the first organized bike tour across the U.S. Around 4,000 bicyclists pedaled to celebrate the Bicentenni...
Framing the Civil War
For nearly a century the National Park Service would tell you all about the civil war battles and tactics, but meticulously avoided the most...
The Monsters Among Us
A cold, dark summer in 1816 brought an extraordinary group of young writers together on the shores of Lake Geneva—including an eighteen-year...
Fatherhood
George Tzamaras fancies himself as a “connoisseur of fine dad jokes.” I have him rate a few of my own dad jokes as a rite of passage as I st...
A Crack in the System
I’ll admit it, I’m not very good at dealing with conflict. In fact, I’d rather avoid conflict altogether than tackle it head on. It’s not so...
What Air is to Fire
A life steeped in literature fueled the rise of the nation’s first Muslim woman elected to a statewide office. Ghazala Hashmi discusses the...
Teacher's Pet
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2026 Summer Reading Recs
It’s time for our annual summer reading recommendation round-up! From a book that traces the Cold War history of our “Made in China” goods,...
Music That Speaks
If you’re looking for new music, you might turn to youtube, spotify, social media–basically, the internet. In Cuba, internet access is so li...