Videos

In September 1939 -- at the outbreak of World War II in Europe -- the U.S. Army had fewer than 200,000 men. Yet by the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this army…

Paul Dickson talked about his book, Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers, in which he looks at the creation of words by authors, including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, …

Paul Dickson talked about his book, Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America’s Presidents. The authors' collection includes Warren G. Harding’s “Foundin…

The authors talked about their book The Bonus Army: An American Epic, published by Walker and Company. They described the event in the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, when s…

Paul Dickson and Doug Evelyn talked about their book, On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C. (Vandamere Press; 4th ed., 2010). This historical guidebook celebrates the living…

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, the first satellite into outer space. A video clip was shown of a Universal newsreel from October 7, 1957, about Sputnik t…

The authors were interviewed about their book The Bonus Army: An American Epic, published by Walker and Company. The book describes the event in the summer of 1932, at the height of the Dep…

Mr. Dickson talked about his book, SPUTNIK: The Shock of the Century, published by Walker and Company. The book is an investigation of the world’s first man-made satellite launched by the US…

Author Paul Dickson spoke about his book, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century.

Ahead of opening day, Co-Authors Paul Dickson and William Mead talked about their new book, Baseball-The President’s Game. They also took audience calls, faxes and electronic mail. Former Ba…