Isaacson revels in the multifaceted character of America's greatest scientist, politician, businessman, writer, and homespun philosopher. This event is co-sponsored with WNET/Thirteen New York.

Lewis and Clark turned America's eyes to the expanse of the west, but it was fur trader Robert Stuart who opened the door to Manifest Destiny with his discovery of the only direct passage through the Rocky Mountains.

Christopher Gray's book New York Streetscapes presents the history of 200 New York buildings, from tenements to towers, in old photographs and previously unknown archival information.

The Columbia University professor exposes the riches in Chekhov's short stories.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt forged a powerful political partnership that helped shape twentieth-century history.

The biographer of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, and others shares his expertise on the theory, resources, and techniques of writing lives.

The multitalented man behind Bark, George and other modern classics narrates and draws episodes from his books and illustrates a new story created by participants.

The author of Taliban turns to the wider base of Islamic extremism, examining how repression and poverty have fed fundamentalist rage in the small countries surrounding Afghanistan, and how that rage may be alleviated.

Barnet Schecter's book The Battle for New York not only tells the riveting story of the city's central role in the Revolution, but also reveals the familiar modern locations where history was made in 1776.

Jim Lehrer's thirteenth novel, No Certain Rest tells the story of a Parks Department archaeologist who discovers a long-buried secret about a death on the battlefield of Antietam. This event is co-sponsored by WNET/Thirteen New York.

James's biographer speaks about him as the great proponent of consciousness as something fluid, evanescent, but above all active.