Popular Culture

We chat with Abby Kurin, the recently named managing director of the OKPOP Foundation.

Traveling from Illinois to California, the author and his family learned about the USA via historical landmarks, quirky roadside attractions, and countless colorful characters.

"[This book] expands and often upends existing histories by locating the early culture wars not in coastal campuses and think tanks but in Hereford, a small town in the Texas Panhandle." -- Jason Mellard, author of "Progressive Country"

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 10.

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 8.

Here's an engrossing, foodie-friendly road trip along Route 66...with plenty of stops at diners, supper clubs, and roadside stands; this book also describes how and why such venues came and went over the years...and even offers kitchen-tested recipes from various historic eateries along the way.

A chat with the noted contemporary British artist, Dave White.

Museum Confidential: Season 7, Episode 6.

Traveling the Mother Road from Illinois to California, the author and his family learn about the USA via historical landmarks, quirky roadside attractions, and countless colorful characters.

"Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers." -- The New York Times Book Review