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In this episode of Old Kentucky Tales, Jason and Brent talk with a special guest, author James Markert about his book "What Blooms From Dust: A Novel",…

In this episode of Old Kentucky Tales, we will hear the words of an English traveler in Kentucky and the “Main Event” will examine J. Proctor Knott’s…

Jason and Brent look back at the much revered Gettysburg Address through the eyes of someone present with President Lincoln that day, Congressman Edward…

Jo Ann Kay McNamara talks with Terry Gross about her book "Sisters In Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia." It is published by Harvard University Press. McNamara is a Professor of History at Hunter College amd at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

2: Film historian KEVIN BROWNLOW. Brownlow's best-known as the man who reconstructed the silent movie masterpiece "Napoleon." He also wrote a highly respected history of silent film , "The Parade's Gone By." His book, "Behind the Mask of Innocence," (Knopf, 1991) is an examination of how pre-World War One silent film makers addressed social issues of the day. He also collaborated (with David Gill) on the documentaries: The Unknown Chaplin, Buster Keaton--A Hard Act to Follow and D.W. Griffith--Father of Film. Their newest collaboration is "Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood" which is showing on Turner Classic Movies this week. (Rebroadcast of 1/2/91 interview).

Linda Wertheimer and Noah Adams bring us excerpts of today's oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the contest of the presidential election results from Florida. For the second time in history, the court has released an audio tape of a session. Today's arguments by attorneys for George W. Bush and Al Gore lasted 90 minutes. We hear the voices of the justices asking questions, and the attorneys' responses. Robert A. Destro, Dean of the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America and Jeffrey Rosen, Associate Professor of Law at The George Washington University in Washington DC provide analysis.

Journalist and novelist George Packer. Packer grew up in a family with a very strong liberal tradition; his grandfather was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century. His father was a Jewish Kennedy-era liberal who was a professor at Stanford. His new book, The Blood of the Liberals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is a memoir about his family's liberalism and Packer's own coming to terms with it. He looks at the history of liberalism in America, and the clashes it caused in his own family. Packer's other books include The Half Man, Central Square, and The Village of Waiting. His articles and essays have appeared in Harper's, Dissent, Double Take, and The New York Times.

Burton's fans were disappointed when he didn't get the job hosting Jeopardy!. In his upcoming show, Burton will pose questions about history, entertainment, science and sports.

Pilot Steve Fossett is scheduled to attempt a solo flight around the world next week without refueling. He's launching his bid from Salina, Kan., where residents are hoping the flight will put them into the history books.

Our summer reading series this week features Lynne Cheney, an author and former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She's also the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney. This Tuesday, Mrs. Cheney will announce the winner of the James Madison Book Award, which grants $10,000 to the author of a children's book on American history. Mrs. Cheney says two of her recent favorites are John Fleischman's Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science (Houghton Mifflin) and When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson (Scholastic), by Pam Munoz Ryan, with illustrations by Bryan Selznick. (For more information on the James Madison Book Award, please visit www.jamesmadisonbookaward.org)