0:08 – Eric Foner, professor of History at Columbia, author of The Second Founding: How the Civil war and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
0:34 – Mark Arax is an author and journalist, focused on California and the West. His latest book is The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California.
1:08 – Betty Reid Soskin – for the hour – the oldest living national park service ranger whose life history is chronicled in her new book, Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life.