Labor Day finds most of the Exchange crew... not laboring. But we worked in advance to provide you with a couple of quality hours of interviews.
At 8: American history with the Civil War in the middle, but not called "The Civil War." Confused? Steven Hahn makes his case in the book A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910.
At 9: More American history, from a later period. The laying of a ship's keel by the assistant Secretary of the Navy--Franklin D. Roosevelt--is one of many events leading up to World War II covered in Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness.
Author Craig Nelson is our guest.