Selections from author Simon Winchester, an Anglo-American, onetime geologist and journalist, polymath, and prolific master of narrative nonfiction.  We hear Winchester's description of The Professor and the Murder, and extended passages from The Men Who Settled the States (Journeys to the Fall Line) and Pacific (the creation of the two nations on the Korean peninsula.)

Selections from author Simon Winchester, an Anglo-American, onetime geologist and journalist, polymath, and prolific master of narrative nonfiction. We hear Winchester's description of The Professor and the Murder, and extended passages from The Men Who Settled the States (Journeys to the Fall Line) and Pacific (the creation of the two nations on the Korean peninsula.)

Simon Winchester:  Journeys to the Fall Line & Creation of Two Korean nations

Historic Matters is a podcast for people fascinated by American history, committed to history in civic life, and eager for good stories about the past well told.  The show brings together historians and teachers, authors and public historians to explore broad themes of history and smaller episodes, events, and people of the American past.  Good "storytelling" is essential to compelling history, and active civic participation demands an understanding of the past.

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Historic Matters is a podcast for people fascinated by American history, committed to history in civic life, and eager for good stories about the past well told. The show brings together historians and teachers, authors and public historians to explore broad themes of history and smaller episodes, events, and people of the American past. Good "storytelling" is essential to compelling history, and active civic participation demands an understanding of the past.

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Simon Winchester: Journeys to the Fall Line & Creation of Two Korean nations

Simon Winchester: Journeys to the Fall Line & Creation of Two Korean nations