World War II spawned hundreds of trials, not just in Germany, but in a variety of countries, including the United States. Trial lawyer Frank Tuerkheimer will take us through several trials that added to our understanding of the Holocaust, and the variety of the outcomes that those trials had.

Political journalist Dan Kaufman explores how Wisconsin has moved from the state of "Fighting" Bob Lafollette and Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson to a state banning collective bargaining and restricting voter IDs. Kaufman discusses his book "The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics."

Why do we find stories so compelling? What's contained within a human narrative that makes it spellbinding to the listener? And can our love of stories help explain our similar craving for music? Neuroscientist Indre Viskontas studies the relationship between stories and neuroscience, and her research indicates that our obsession with stories is literally hardwired into our brains.

Stanley Temple talks about the history of camping and how we have gone from camping for survival to camping for fun.

UW Professor of Media and Cultural Studies Derek Johnson offers a "TV Guide" through the transformation of traditional broadcast channels into a proliferation of cable and digital options.

It’s a strange book in some ways—part novel, part theater and part documentary. In 1851 Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Today it’s considered a literary masterpiece, but in its day it was so overlooked that it began Melville’s slide into obscurity. I’m NG./ In the hour to come, during University of the Air, Melville expert Jeffrey Steele will tell us how Melville came to write Moby Dick, why his contemporaries didn’t take to it, why it was censored in England, and the meaning behind some of its characters and scenes. Most surprisingly, we’ll find out what significance Melville likely placed in the great white whale.

The Dutch brought the first African slave to what is now the United States in 1619, but by then slavery had been common in other parts of the New World for more than a century. Brazil alone imported five million slaves and Haiti and Cuba were major slave-holding colonies. Historian James Sweet will discuss the large-scale phenomenon of Africans in the Americas, and we’ll look at a successful slave revolt that’s largely overlooked in the shadows of the American and French revolutions

Who decides which words make it into dictionaries and how to define them in non-biased ways? Professor Emeritus Marshall Cook looks behind the scenes at lexicographers such as Kory Stamper (author of Word by Word), and Derrick Allen (graduate of the UW Odyssey Project www.odyssey.wisc.edu ) adds readings of "I Love Webster's" by Tosumba Welch and Malcolm X's "A Homemade Education" on the life-changing power of dictionaries.

David Walker, Maria Stewart, and Frederick Douglass were revolutionary black abolitionists in the 19 th century who raised their voices to try to end slavery. Professor Christy Clark Pujara introduces these figures and their turbulent times. Two graduates of the UW Odyssey Project (Tosumba Welch and Molinda Henry) read eloquent passages from the writings of abolitionists.

Claude Debussy was one of the most innovative composers in history and he had a remarkable ability to create images through music. From the Orient to turn-of the Century America and the mysterious to the comic, Debussy brought it out in the sounds of the piano. Pianist Catherine Kautsky will give us the background on some of Debussy’s most vivid compositions and their sometimes controversial sources of inspiration.