Richard Overy is a premier historian of the Second World War and the Third Reich. He has written over twenty-five books, most recently Why War? (2024) and Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan (2025).

Interview with Stephen West, host of the podcast Philosophize This!

Interview with Michael Kosta, author of Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy (Harper, 2025)

Interview with Geoffrey Ward, historian and writer of scripts for Ken Burns. Author of The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2017), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2014), and others. Script writer of The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz, and more.

Robert Darnton is a premier cultural historian and perhaps the foremost expert on the 18th century republic of letters. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 (Harvard University Press, 2024).

An interview with Gosling Press, a small press dedicated to World War I books, with a special interest in campaigns away from the Western Front.

Interview with Andrew Furman, author of Of Slash Pines and Manatees (University Press of Florida, 2025)

Lanta Davis is a professor of humanities and literature in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. Her new book is Becoming by Beholding: The Power of Imagination in Spiritual Formation (Baker, 2024).

Interview with Wright Thompson about his new book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder In Mississippi . This interview also touches on American history and Southern identity.