Video & Audio

Historian Zachary Shore looks at recent political history for examples and models of wise decision-making.

Art historian Peter Christensen is working on a project that approaches dignity as fundamentally an issue of design.

David Grubbs explores the demands composers and musicians face when working collaboratively.

Writer and journalist Amy Waldman is writing a nonfiction book on the human relationship with snow.

Writer Mona Simpson is at work on several new novel ideas -- one of them about FDR's most trusted women.

In his book project “A Wiser World,” Zachary Shore asks what history can teach us about making wise decisions.

Max K. Strassfeld challenges current scholarship tracing the origins of life-cycle rituals to rabbinic literature.

Why the war started and how its origins have influenced the its ongoing course.

Historian Nell Irvin Painter reflects on how her experiences living abroad have shaped her views on history and race.

Historian James N. Green traces the emergence of student-led mobilization efforts in the years preceding the fall of the Brazilian dictatorship.