University of Texas journalism professor Kate Winkler Dawson looked at the life of Edward Oscar Heinrich, America's first forensic scientist, who was integral in introducing the use of ballistics, blood spatter analysis, and fingerprints as evidence in legal cases.
Gina Kolata discussed her book "Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It," published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. The author pieced together a picture, through letters, interviews, news reports, and recent research into the virus, of the devastating flu outbreak of 1918, which killed 40 million people worldwide.
David Kilcullen, former counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, looked at the ways hostile forces have adapted to the ways the U.S. fights wars.
Book TV talked to Bradley Graham, co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, about how the coronavirus has impacted his bookstore's operations.
Alexis Wichowski, deputy chief technology officer for New York City, talked about the power dynamic between big tech companies and governments around the world.
Joanne McNeil described how internet use shifted from being individualistic, spontaneous, and voluntary to being data and advertising driven and dominated by corporations.
Author Robert Plumb looked at how Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Julia Ward Howe had an impact on the Civil War.
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the George H.W. Bush administration Diane Ravitch made the argument for why she believes public education should not be privatized.
