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The C-SPAN Bookshelf podcast feed makes it easy for you to listen to all of the C-SPAN podcast episodes about nonfiction books. Each week we gather episodes from the different C-SPAN podcasts that feature authors talking about history, biography, current events, and culture to make it easier to discover the episodes and listen. If you like nonfiction books, follow this podcast feed so you never miss an episode!

Q&A: Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment"

61 hours 55 mins; November 05, 2023

AW: Ruth Simmons, "Up Home - One Girl's Journey"

66 hours 12 mins; November 04, 2023

BTSA: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston w/ Prof. Gary Richards

24 mins; November 03, 2023

BN: Ben Stein, "The Peacemaker"

60 hours 44 mins; October 31, 2023

Q&A: Tom Cronin, "Imagining a Great Republic"

61 hours 36 mins; October 29, 2023

AW: Martin Baron, "Collision of Power"

61 hours 49 mins; October 28, 2023

AB: Book Bans & School Libraries

26 mins; October 26, 2023

BTSA: "My Antonia" by Willa Cather w/ Historian Richard Norton Smith

24 mins; October 26, 2023

BN: Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock"

66 hours 21 mins; October 24, 2023

Q&A: Elizabeth Papez on Chief Justices of the Supreme Court

62 hours 46 mins; October 22, 2023

AW: Ryan Reilly, "Sedition Hunters - How January 6th Broke the Justice System"

62 hours 43 mins; October 21, 2023

BTSA: The Life of Mark Twain w/ Professor Matt Seybold

35 mins; October 19, 2023

BTSA: "The Common Law" by Oliver Wendell Holmes w/ Historian Stephen Budiansky

29 mins; October 18, 2023

BN: Diana Henriques, "Taming the Street"

67 hours 45 mins; October 17, 2023

AW: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun"

62 hours 9 mins; October 14, 2023

BN: Kenneth Rendell, "Safeguarding History"

62 hours 9 mins; October 10, 2023

Q&A: Michael Green, "The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership"

63 hours 25 mins; October 08, 2023

AW: Melissa Kearney, "The Two-Parent Privilege"

60 hours 4 mins; October 07, 2023

BTSA: Life of Frederick Douglas w/ Prof. David Blight

36 mins; October 06, 2023

BN: Fox News Contributor Karl Rove on America's Broken Politics

59 mins; October 03, 2023

QA: Randall Eliason, On Senator Bob Menendez's First Trial

63 hours 56 mins; October 01, 2023

AW: Adam Nagourney, "The Times"

61 hours 59 mins; September 30, 2023

AB: The Internet Archive & Digital Libraries

30 mins; September 29, 2023

BTSA: Journals of Lewis and Clark w/ Author Lanny Jones

22 mins; September 27, 2023

BN: Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons"

63 hours 11 mins; September 26, 2023

AW: Meg Kissinger, "While You Were Out - An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence"

62 hours 26 mins; September 23, 2023

BTSA: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay "The Federalist Papers"

33 mins; September 22, 2023

BN: Erec Smith, Co-Founder of Free Black Thought

64 hours 59 mins; September 19, 2023

Q&A: Cliff Sloan, "The Court at War

62 hours 54 mins; September 17, 2023

AW: Loren Grush, "The Six - The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts"

62 hours 2 mins; September 16, 2023

AB: Fall Book Preview with Colette Bancroft

28 mins; September 15, 2023

BTSA: Professor Richard Bell on "Common Sense" Thomas Paine (1776)

28 mins; September 15, 2023

BN: Lindsay Chervinsky, "The Cabinet"

61 hours 41 mins; September 12, 2023

Q&A: Richard Striner, "Ike in Love and War"

59 mins; September 10, 2023

AW: Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School"

60 hours 46 mins; September 09, 2023

BN: Politico's Kyle Cheney on the January 6 Trials

64 hours 36 mins; September 05, 2023

Q&A: Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

62 hours 19 mins; September 03, 2023

BN: Matthew Delmont, "Half American"

64 hours 41 mins; September 02, 2023

AB: Max Miller, "Tasting History"

34 mins; August 31, 2023

BN: Luke Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics"

64 hours 45 mins; August 29, 2023

Q&A: Jean Twenge, "Generations"

61 hours 36 mins; August 27, 2023

BN: Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory"

64 hours 19 mins; August 22, 2023

Q&A: Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.

63 hours 19 mins; August 20, 2023

AB: Goodreads and "Review-Bombing"

32 mins; August 18, 2023

BN: Alan Philps, "The Red Hotel"

65 hours 54 mins; August 15, 2023

Q&A: James Rosen, "Scalia"

62 hours 25 mins; August 13, 2023

BN: Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks.com

65 hours 22 mins; August 08, 2023

Q&A: Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848

60 hours 18 mins; August 06, 2023

AW: Matt Lewis, "Filthy Rich Politicians"

60 hours 46 mins; August 05, 2023

AB: Cormac McCarthy & the Publishing Industry

30 mins; August 04, 2023

BN: Katherine Clarke, "Billionaires' Row"

62 hours 15 mins; August 01, 2023

Q&A: Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"

62 hours 45 mins; July 30, 2023

AW: Judge Amul Thapar, "The People's Justice - Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him"

59 mins; July 29, 2023

BN: Rebeccah Heinrichs, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow

63 hours 4 mins; July 25, 2023

Q&A: Felix Salmon, "The Phoenix Economy"

61 hours 51 mins; July 23, 2023

AW: Wesley Lowery, "American Whitelash - A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress"

62 hours 38 mins; July 22, 2023

AB: Artificial Intelligence and the Publishing Industry

32 mins; July 20, 2023

BN: Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries"

61 hours 57 mins; July 18, 2023

Q&A: Joshua Zeitz, "Lincoln's God"

62 hours 53 mins; July 16, 2023

AW: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, "The Overlooked Americans"

60 hours 23 mins; July 15, 2023

BN: Martha Hodes, "My Hijacking"

65 hours 8 mins; July 11, 2023

Q&A: Tania Branigan, "Red Memory"

60 hours 56 mins; July 09, 2023

AB: Graphic Artist Jerry Craft on Book Bans

33 mins; July 07, 2023

BN: C.W. Goodyear, "President Garfield"

63 hours 32 mins; July 04, 2023

Q&A: Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"

61 hours 41 mins; July 02, 2023

AW: Jason Del Rey, "Winner Sells All - Amazon, Walmart and the Battle for Our Wallets"

60 hours 24 mins; July 01, 2023

BN: William Hazelgrove, "The Last Charge of the Rough Rider"

71 hours 6 mins; June 27, 2023

Q&A: Cassandra Good, "First Family"

63 hours 33 mins; June 25, 2023

AW: Rebecca Grant, "Birth - Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America"

52 mins; June 24, 2023

AB: Brian O'Leary on Upgrading the Publishing Industry Supply Chain

27 mins; June 22, 2023

BN: Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The World"

64 hours 58 mins; June 20, 2023

Q&A: Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. on the Murder of Emmett Till and the Search for Justice

60 hours 19 mins; June 18, 2023

Booknotes+: Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"

64 hours 55 mins; June 13, 2023

Q&A: Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise"

62 hours 47 mins; June 11, 2023

AW: David Bernhardt, "You Report to Me - Accountability for the Failing Administrative State"

60 hours 44 mins; June 10, 2023

AB: Former FBI Director Comey on Writing Crime Novels

32 mins; June 08, 2023

TRAILER: What is the C-SPAN Bookshelf?

20 secs; May 30, 2023

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