Lifelines with John Augustine - Delta College Public Radio

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.