Stephen A. Mitchell is Stephen A. Mitchell is Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University and author of Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages, a full examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia.

Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the editor of Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs a new volume on the politics and economics of human migration.

Anne Trubek, journalist and Associate Professor at Oberlin College, recounts her travels to writer's house museums across the United States. She shares her insights on many places including Hannibal, MO, the birthplace of Mark Twain; the Hemingway house in Key West, FL; and Concord, MA, home to Louisa May Alcott.

Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology discuss the facets of Sustainable Lifeways, how humans adapt to changes in their environment over time.

Rutgers University historian Howard Gillette, Jr., author of Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism, covers a century of urban planning, architecture, and city reform efforts.

UCLA professor Felicity Nussbaum discusses the birth of celebrity culture and the changing roles of actress and women on stage and off in eighteenth-century England.

Award-winning poet Len Krisak discusses his new translation of Virgil's Eclogues and reads some selections from the book of classic poems.

Religious Studies professor Johan Elverskog discusses the history of interaction between two of the world's major religions on the cultural crossroads of Eurasia.

Historian and book expert Robert Darnton discusses literature of slander and libel in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France and reveals the names of history's forgotten muckrackers, including the author of The Bohemians.

Cultural historian George Cotkin calls for a "healthy dose of befuddlement" in considering some of the most controversial episodes of the last hundred years.