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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Producer Charles Monroe-Kane lives a few blocks from the house where an Afrian-American teenager was recently killed by a white police officer. The impacts of the shooting have been rippling through the mixed-race neighborhood. Charles and his family are whiet. Here's how they are responding.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some people went to war, some went to Canada, and others did alternative service. Coleman went to prison for refusing to fight. His memoir, “Spoke” tells the story of how he decided. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We hear a depression story from 98 year old Nicholas J. Miller.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Collins researched forgotten stars for his book “Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The style of type used by the Obama campaign is called Gotham and was designed by the team of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, thinks cupid’s arrow may just be an algorithm.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.

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