Lifelines with John Augustine - Delta College Public Radio

Can a man be right and wrong at the same time? A look at John Brown, who led the failed abolitionist raid on Harpers Ferry. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

When television news was a contest between the Big Three networks, Walter Cronkite reigned for decades as America's anchorman. Support this channel: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

Photographer Edward Curtis set out with an ambitious goal: to capture and preserve every Native American tribe's unique culture. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

Ray Bolger is one of the all-time greatest dancers with his best known performance as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

The story of Owosso, MI native James Oliver Curwood, author, conservationist, and builder of Curwood Castle. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

After receiving her medical degree in the 1890s, Susan Anderson moved to Fraser, Colorado, where the locals knew her as "Doc Susie." Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

A look at the life of stormchaser Tim Samaras and his field research on tornadoes. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

At a time when everyone read the paper, Barney Kilgore was probably the most significant newspaperman. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

In an age of rabid reformers, John Hancock was a moderate, yet he found himself as one of the instigators of the Boston Tea Party. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

America's 250th birthday revived attention to the heroes of the Revolution, but one less familiar name is often overlooked, despite his significant contribution to our nation's birth. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

Mark Twain imagines the diaries of the original couple and their observations of this new world. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

"The Elephant Whisperer" tells the story of 20th-century conservationist Lawrence Anthony and his ability to communicate with wild elephants. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

Stephen Smith's "The First Lady of Radio" examines Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the first first lady to do regularly-scheduled radio programs. Support this podcast: https://www.deltapublicmedia.org/donate/

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in France 62 years after Thomas Jefferson, but the parallels between them are remarkable. Support Delta College Public Radio: https://www.deltabroadcasting.org/donate/

Herodotus of Athens was the first significant historian. This idea was so new that he didn't even call his stories of the wars between the Ancient Persians and Greeks "history." Support Delta College Public Radio: https://www.deltabroadcasting.org/donate/

It's remarkable to realize that Gershwin, the favorite American modernist composer, was born when many Civil War veterans were still alive. Support Delta College Public Radio: https://www.deltabroadcasting.org/donate/

There is a mystery around the death of Edgar Allen Poe and John Walsh is convinced he has solved the case.

In 1903, on a $50 bet, Horatio Nelson Jackson set out on the first journey by car from San Francisco to New York.

The most famous English diarist, Samuel Pepys, lived in the 1600s and the phrase "may you live in interesting times" certainly applies.

If there's a 20th century world champion subject for biography, it would have to be Winston Churchill. Fortunately, a small door has been opened by Gretchen Rubin and her book, "40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill."

For 2000 years, the great scientific authority in the West was Aristotle. But by the time the Pilgrims were landing at Plymouth Rock, a new age of science was in bud, and Newton would be an example of the new scientist.

Today's book combines two autobiographical pieces: one a travelogue of Europe and an account of the first World's Fair, the other an account of growing up in and escaping from slavery.

One of the great collaborators on the Great American Songbook was lyricist Yip Harbug.

Lady Constance Lytton was a British aristocrat and suffragette who shed her noble trappings to go on a hunger strike for women's right to vote.

Only one Native American chief won a negotiation with the U.S. government: the Apache leader, Cochise.

How many great novels should a writer be expected to produce to qualify as a great novelist? Thomas Hardy wrote a half-dozen acknowledged classics still read for pleasure and taught in universities though he has been dead for 100 years.

Early in the twentieth century, Albert Barnes created a fiefdom in suburban Philadelphia that embraced his grand house, his art museum, his school for fine arts appreciation, and his ego.

Born into slavery when it was still legal in New York, Sojourner Truth was a powerful orator on faith, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery.

Early sailors could navigate by latitude to sail east and west, but sailing north or south was much more difficult until John Harrison solved the longitude problem.

Twelve generals have been U.S. president. Among them are George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and today's subject, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Many people contributed to the idea of a computer being a machine rather than an occupation, but the biggest leap forward came from Alan Turing.

Authors who spread the Protestant Reformation risked censorship, imprisonment, or even death, including Michael Servetus, who was burned alive along with most copies of his book.

In the late 1950s, white author John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a Black man to experience the state of race relations in the segregated South from the other side.

While Kosciuszko's family was part of Poland's upper 10%, this military leader's sympathies were for the disenfranchised.

Machu Picchu was built mere decades before the Spanish invasion of South America, yet almost no one knew about it until the ruins were discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham.

Return with us now to a time when bright and ambitious students studied vocabulary lists to enhance their erudition and learn about a man responsible for bringing many of these words into the English language.

There is a select group of people who have become prominent in history because of one brief moment in their lives. For abolitionist Congressman Charles Sumner, that moment was being assaulted with a cane by a furious Southern senator.

King Edward of England's brutal execution of William Wallace was meant to intimidate the Scots, but instead it inflamed them and a new leader arose: Robert the Bruce.

John Hay would serve every Republican administration from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt even though he was never elected to office himself.

There is a cliché that artists must struggle, but Frida Kahlo must hold the world record.