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Boundary and Horizon: The Mississippi River in African-American History

Angie da Silva is a historian of black cultural life in the United States, going back to the Civil War. She collects stories, both through oral history and archival research. But she's not merely a writer. She brings these stories to life through historical reenactment, often as a slave character she's created named Lila.  She says that the stories she hears and tells are too often left out of our history books.

In this interview, she talks about her work and tells the story of Mary Meachum, a free black abolitionist who worked on the Mississippi in St. Louis.

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Deborah Scranton on "Bad Voodoo's War"

Deborah Scranton gives cameras directly to soldiers, She edits their footage over the internet.

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Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change Our Lives

Cathy N. Davidson is the author of "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn."  She tells Anne Strainchamps why "attention blindness" matters.

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Elizabeth Royte on "The Tapir's Morning Bath"

Writer Elizabeth Royte spent some time on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, the best-studied rainforest in the world.  She describes some of the naturalists she met and their work in her book “The Tapir’s Morning Bath.”

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Calculus of Love - John and Julie Gottman

Psychologists John and Julie Gottman are famous for being able to predict with 94% accuracy whether a couple will break up, stay together unhappily, or stay together happily. In their Love Lab, they've identified hidden patterns of behavior that can strengthen or weaken relationships. If we'd known the secret to a good marriage was non-linear differential equations, we might have paid more attention in math class.

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Francis M. Nevins on "Night and Fear"

Francis M. Nevins is an authority on suspense writer Cornell Woolrich and wrote the introduction for a new anthology called “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich.”

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Chris Gore on "My Big Fat Independent Movie"

Chris Gore is the so-called "pit bull of movie journalism," and the creator of "Film Threat" magazine. He's also the screenwriter and producer of "My Big Fat Independent Movie."

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Eva Gabrielsson on Stieg Larsson

It sometimes seems as though everyone has read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the books that followed. The author, Stieg Larsson, died before he could tell the stories behind the books. Now his companion of more than 30 years, Eva Gabrielsson, has written about the man and his work. In this NEW and UNCUT interview she tells Jim Fleming about the books and her life with Stieg Larsson.

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