It should've been the year to celebrate peace at the end of the Great War, but instead, 1919 was a time of violence in America. Historian David Krugler will explain why African Americans found themselves in a crucible of violence and what they did about it.

Scandals about doping have rocked the Olympics and every major sporting event. In this hour, medical ethicist Dr. Norman Fost defends his controversial, decades-long opinion that legalizing rather than banning performance-enhancing drugs for athletes would be a better solution.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson will tell us about the four factors that lead to a person's well-being. Are we born with them? And if we are, can they be strengthened through exercise?

Wisconsin is a “purple state” that has elected both Republican and Democratic officials and battled over a gubernatorial recall. In this hour, political scientist Katherine Cramer explores the split between rural and urban areas of the state, drawing on the field research she covers in her new book, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.

Psychologist Joseph Newman and neuroscientist Mike Koenings share some of their considerable research into the phenomenon of psychopathy, also known as antisocial personality disorder.

Sylvia Plath became one of the America’s foremost poets, novelists, and short story authors of the 20th century, and her formative but turbulent relationship with British poet Ted Hughes led her to create a confessional genre of poetry and her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar.

As world cultures blend, how do we determine what's good, and what's evil? Our guest, professor of Philosophy Russ Shafer-Landau, tells us that some absolutes remain.

Alexander Shashko, Joshua Calhoun, and Sarah Marty discuss Hamilton, The Musical. For further information: Sarah's upcoming class: http://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/classes/ hamilton-american-musical Interactive primer on the use of sound-patterns in Hamilton: http://graphics.wsj.com/hamilton/ Information on the “Shakespeare & Media” course Joshua will be co-teaching with Jonathan Senchyne (SLIS) this fall: http://www.shakesconsin.com Holding History where you can learn more about opportunities to physically interact with historical books and pamphlets: www.holdinghistory.com NPR “American Lives” story about James Baldwin that includes the text of his essay “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare”: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129281259

Historian Erika Janik, author of Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction, traces the exploits of real and imaginary female police officers and detectives in the burgeoning metropolises of America and England.

During the Viking raids in Great Britain, the flow of goods was mostly one-way and involutnary, but the eschange of cultures was inevitible and long-lasting. Scandinavian Studies professor and folklorist Tom DuBois describes how the collision between Scandinavians and Celts shaped the Anglo-American culture of today.