With three historians of the winning, settlement and turmoil of the American West, we recount the realities behind the mythology. This memorable discussion occurred in 2002.

With Donald Kagan of Yale University we discuss the great conflict between Athens and Sparta, as originally reported and explained by one of the generals, Thucydides, who is still regarded as “the father of history.” This 2003 conversation illuminates the causes, nature and consequences of war as they were 2,500 years ago and still are today.

Veteran members of the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists go to town with a number of classic radio scripts rendering old time radio new again. This show is from 2007.

James McPherson, the Princeton professor who is generally viewed as our leading historian of the Civil War, gives a fascinating account of the battle at Antietam in this conversation from 2003 and based on his book “Crossroads of Freedom.”

Historian Deborah Dwork and her colleague (an architectural scholar) focus in on the 20th century history of Auschwitz. They probe who was “processed” there, how, and (the unanswerable question) why.