Inside Media

Music historian Hugo Keesing talks about and samples songs inspired by the Vietnam War that covered a wide spectrum of viewpoints, from the war’s strongest advocates to its most passionate dissenters. In 2010 Keesing released “Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961–2008,” a 13-CD box set featuring over 300 songs inspired by the Vietnam War.

Washington Post sports reporter James Wagner helped kick off the Newseum’s latest exhibit, “Nationals at 10: Baseball Makes News.” The Chips Quinn alumnus talked about his beat covering Washington’s major league baseball team, as well as the impact the Newseum Institute’s Chips Quinn Scholars program had on his career in journalism.

Pop culture journalist Jen Chaney talks about her new book, “As If! The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew.” The book is an oral history of the making of the iconic film using recollections and insights collected from key cast and crew members.

Barry Svrluga, a sports writer for The Washington Post, talks about his new book, “The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season.” The book captures the frustration, impermanence and glory felt by the players, the staff and their families from the start of spring training to the final game of the year.

Cokie Roberts talks about her new book “Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868.” The book profiles the wives, sisters and female friends of the men leading America into, and through, this unprecedented conflict.

Author Andrea Mays talks about her new book, “The Millionaire and the Bard,” which tells the story of the making of William Shakespeare’s First Folio and the obsessive hunt three centuries later by American industrialist Henry Folger to track it down.

Radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt talks about his new book, “The Queen: The Epic Ambition of Hillary and the Coming of a Second ‘Clinton’ Era.” Chris Cillizza, who writes the politics blog “The Fix” and covers the White House for The Washington Post, moderates the program.

Ken Cerniglia, dramaturg and literary manager of Disney Theatrical Group, talks about the making of “Newsies,” the Tony Award-winning musical about a group of newsboys in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Cerniglia is joined by W. Joseph Campbell, a professor in the School of Communication at American University, who will discuss the era in which newsies thrived and the state of journalism at the time.

Appearing during the 40th anniversary of Capital Pride, an annual LGBT festival in Washington, D.C., Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff and senior news writer Lou Chibbaro Jr. talk about the history of the newspaper and its award-winning coverage of the LGBT community.

Washington Post staff writer Carol Leonnig talks about her 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning series about security lapses in the Secret Service. She is joined by Peter Wallsten, deputy national politics editor at the Post, who oversaw her reporting.