Category: DailyShorts

Author Dani Shapiro spent 15 years working on Signal Fires, a novel about how a single accident changes the course of one family's life. In this episode, she tells NPR's Scott Simon how her own trajectory to completing the book upended what she thought she knew about herself and her upbringing.

John J. Miller is joined by Dr. John Bruchalski to discuss his book, 'Two Patients.'

It was the worst economic depression that the United States had ever seen. 

The stock market crashed. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. The unemployment rate hit 20% There were soup lines and an army of homeless scattered throughout the country. 

It was not the Great Depression.

Learn more about the Panic of 1893, the forgotten depression which realigned American politics, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Abraham Lincoln made history in 1863 when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, effectively freeing enslaved people across the U.S. But he expected it to cost him reelection. In his new book, And There Was Light, Pulitzer prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham dives into how Lincoln's moral vision allowed him to stand his ground, even in the face of great criticism. Meacham tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that Lincoln's views on God and morality can teach us a thing or two in today's political climate.

Despite what you might have been told, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were not the first Europeans to reach the Americas. 

Almost 500 years earlier, a small group of Norse settlers arrived on what is today the Island of Newfoundland. 

Yet, their presence on the continent was short-lived and no one ever came after them. 

Learn more about how Vinland, Vikings, and lactose intolerance might have shaped history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Philip II of Spain was one of European history’s most important yet underrated monarchs. 

He had more titles and kingships than almost anyone and was behind some of the biggest events in the history of several European countries. 

On top of all of that, he also reigned over one of the largest empires in world history. 

Learn more about Philip II and the incredible events surrounding his life on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Located just southwest of the southern tip of India lies one of the only countries in the world consisting soely of coral atolls. 

Unlike similar countries which are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, this country has a location and proximity which has given it a unique history.

It also faces a unique set of problems given geography and geology. 

Learn more about the Maldives, its past, present, and future, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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In this episode, we share two interviews on novels that explore how horror can be found within – and beyond – the laws of nature. First, Megan Miranda takes NPR's Elissa Nadworny into the North Carolina woods to set the scene for her book, The Last to Vanish, about disappearing hikers. Then, Stephen King and his son Owen tell Mary Louise Kelly about the supernatural rage that overcomes the women in their novel, Sleeping Beauties.