The Travel Hour

Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson speaks with Tracy Tucker about the life and times of the novelist Willa Cather

Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson walks around the childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, of the novelist Willa Cather.

A visit to the battlefields around the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, scene of the 1915 battle in World War I at the entrance to the Dardanelles.

Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson speaks with French correspondent Maurin Picard about his new book concerning the 1961 plane crash that killed UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold.

Discovering the city that has emerged from the ashes of war

A visit to the Scotland home of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson tracks down the Ulster roots of the American president, Chester A. Arthur

Travel Hour hosts visits the Free Derry Museum and speaks with historian Adrian Kerr about Bloody Sunday, 1972.

Travel Hour host Matthew Stevenson, in Gettysburg, PA, visits with the famous Civil War congressman and abolitionist, Thaddeus Stevens, courtesy of Ross Hetrick, president of the Thaddeus Stevens Society, which is dedicated to preserving the memory of the legislator who opposed slavery and promoted public education.

Across the world in the company of a New York Times book editor and the editor-in-chief of Penguin Books USA.