Inquiry Podcasts

We speak with urban historian and architect DOLORES HAYDEN who has written the beautiful and profoundly disturbing A FIELD GUIDE TO SPRAWL. This book features the outstanding aerial photography of Jim Wark.

 Inquiry welcomes back author and historian WALTER R. BORNEMAN. Walter’s new book is a revealing account of America’s first truly international conflict, a series of battles that changed the political landscape of the world and prepared America for it’s own War of Independence.

Well before there was John James Audubon, there was Thomas Bewick, British artist, engraver and author and illustrator of what might be considered the first field guide to birds in the world.

Beatrix Potter is best known for her wonderful children’s illustrated stories populated by the likes of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-duck and Pigling Bland. Writer LINDA LEAR’s new biography reveals Potter as a unique, independent and creative woman well ahead of her times.

MIKE O’CONNOR, the owner of the famous Bird Watcher’s General Store on Cape Cod, has for some time written a column in the local paper in which he answers submitted questions about bird behavior, bird feeding and bird identification.

For most of the 19th Century, there was no federal control over currency in the United States. It was total monetary anarchy. Hundreds of independent banks designed and issued their own bills.

We speak with award-winning journalist CORA DANIELS about big money, the music business and “gangsta rap”.

Two films released in 1931 by Universal, Dracula and Frankenstein, forever changed the cinematic look and experience of horror in movies. Though these films may not seem very scary compared to today’s blood and gore spectacles, in their day these films terrified audiences around the globe.

We talk with artist and writer BRET M. HERHOLZ about the appeal of comics, getting yourself published and about his new gothic comic series DIARY OF THE BLACK WIDOW.