Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He had a keen interest in authentic Jewish sources. Find out what Sir Isaac Newton learned from the Hebrew Bible and Maimonides, featuring: Robert Iliffe, Professor of History of Science at Oxford, General Editor of the Newton Project. Author of Priest and Nature, The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton.

 

In what the Wall Street Journal calls the “most comprehensive [John] Tyler biography in 80 years,” Dr. Leahy’s book, President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler, profiles a leader that historians have long viewed as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. It’s the first full¬-scale biography of Tyler in more than 50 years, and the first new academic study of him in eight decades.

 

Professor Nicolas McDowell, lecturer on Early Modern Literature and Thought, University of Exeter
focuses on the literary, cultural and intellectual history of the period 1500-1750, with particular focus on the Civil Wars of the 17th-century.

Professor McDowell is the award winning author of numerous books including:

Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660
Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit
Co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Milton

In a featured Sparks of History interview, Professor McDowell presents the life and works of one of history's (most) outstanding writers, John Milton. 

Daniel Boone - The Man & The Myth

Noted author Tom Clavin presents:


Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier,

 

Daniel Boone - The Man & The Myth

Noted author Tom Clavin presents:


Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier,

 

Professor Rosamond McKitterick from Cambridge, discusses her breakthrough work on Charlemagne.  

Professor Rosamond McKitterick from Cambridge, discusses her breakthrough work on Charlemagne.  

Professor Marion Turner, Tutorial Fellowship at Oxford, Trustee of the New Chaucer Society
and recognized authority on late medieval secular literature and history discusses her
groundbreaking work, Chaucer: A European Life (2019).