Clips

Thom Hartmann on the gray area between socialism and capitalism, including the lines between where the private sector ends, and the public sector begins.

• 6 minutes
• 12,333 views

Author Amity Shlaes talks about the various public policy attempts to stimulate the economy during the Great Depression.

• 7 minutes
• 3,713 views

Author Jacqueline Woodson talks about the characters in her book "Harbor Me."

• 6 minutes
• 3,710 views

Author and historian Peniel Joseph talked about how W.E.B DuBois and Marcus Garvey influenced the Black Power movement and the civil rights movement.

• 5 minutes
• 2,070 views

Joan Biskupic, author and journalist, talked about the results of the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore.

• 2 minutes
• 1,610 views

In this September 2001 interview with C-SPAN, author Shelby Foote talks to Brian Lamb about when and why he reads Marcel Proust and the value of the written word and our need to read it.

• 2 minutes
• 1,442 views

Elizabeth Kolbert, bestselling author and staff writer for the New Yorker, talked about emissions and each countries' contributions for each country in the Paris Climate Accord.

• 2 minutes
• 1,348 views

Jacqueline Woodson talks about poetry, audience, themes and issues that influence her writing.

• 3 minutes
• 1,314 views

Jacqueline Woodson discusses the importance of place in her books.

• 2 minutes
• 1,245 views

Cokie Roberts on her fathers disappearance

• 48 seconds
• 1,241 views

Author and historian Joanne Freeman discussed the ideas of an affair of honor and duels. She also described the Hamilton-Burr duel that took place in 1804.

• 4 minutes
• 1,210 views

In December 2001, David McCullough, the author of several American biographies including John Adams, talked about his infamous typewriter, on which he has written all of his books.

• 2 minutes
• 1,125 views

Edna Greene Medford explains the steps leading up to President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation.

• 2 minutes
• 1,071 views

Lincoln and the 13th Amendment

• 6 minutes
• 754 views

Joanne Freeman talked about the caning of Senator Charles Sumner by Congressman Preston Brooks on the floor of the Senate and the symbolic nature of this attack.

• 5 minutes
• 598 views

Jacqueline Woodson talks about the theme of family in her books and how it reflects reality.

• 55 seconds
• 584 views

Rick Atkinson, a Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning journalist, talked about Operation Overlord, marching orders that tasked Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower and the Allied Forces…

• 1 minute
• 546 views

In 2001, author Toni Morrison appeared on Book TV's In Depth program to talk about her life and work. She speaks here about why she saw herself first and foremost as a "black woman writer"…

• 3 minutes
• 510 views

Jacqueline Woodson discusses point of view in her books.

• 3 minutes
• 509 views

Dave Barry answers BookTV question "I'm not Jewish, what's in it for me" by citing Hagadah, Alan Zweibel, Adam Mansbach, and his Cuban Jewish wife

• 2 minutes
• 506 views