Guest: Marc Morris is a historian and broadcaster specializing in the Middle Ages. He is the author of A Great and Terrible King, King John, The Norman Conquest, and his latest, The Anglo-Saxons: The Making of England: 410-1066.

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Guest: Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.  Her new book, KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art  won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history; awarded Book of the Year by Current Archaeology; selected as one of 2021’s 100 Notable Books by The New York Times.  She is co-founder of the influential TrowelBlazers project, highlighting women in archaeology and the earth sciences.

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Guest: Maureen Ferran is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Viral Researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology. New York State.  Her latest article, CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally can be found in the Conversation.

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Guest: William Jay Risch is a professor of history at Georgia College. He specializes on Eastern Europe and is the author of the book The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv.

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Guest: Peter Cozzens is a historian and the author and/or editor of sixteen books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize. His latest book is Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America’s Heartland.

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