Cross Word Books
mysteryhints@gmail.com Listen. Learn. Engage. Welcome to Cross Word Books, the podcast where we delve into compelling conversations with authors who illuminate history, politics, culture, faith, and art. Each episode uncovers intriguing insights and untold stories that shape our understanding of today’s world and the rich tapestry of ideas that define it. Whether you’re passionate about the cultural impact of art or curious about how history informs our political landscape, Crossword invites you to explore the diverse forces that influence human experience. Join our community of curious minds and subscribe now to embark on a journey of discovery, thoughtful reflection, and deeper connection with the world around us.
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From LaSalle to Thomas Jefferson, the story of how our country was made in the grand sweep of time.
A true American tale as bold as the people who lived the story. Native Americans, Immigrants and enlsaved people. Lives coming together to establish a nation.
Four cents an acre. The greatest real estate de...
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What is conservatism? How can conservative principals replace MAGA and populism in the Republican Party
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The Republican Party is headed for a reckoning, and the real battle is not going to be fought on cable news. It is going to be fought in precinct meetings, county conventions, state parties, and the delegate math that deci...
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American Revolution | Historical Fiction | Thomas Paine | George Washington | Revolutionary War
What does courage look like when you don't feel brave?
George Washington “vaccinated” soldiers by giving them smallpox on purpose, and it may have saved the Revolution. That jaw-dropping history is just one of the realities we dig into with author Katherine Goodwin Tone as we exp...
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Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World, Dan Werb
published by crown books of penguinrandomhouse.com
Smart nature writing, urban planning ideas, and clear-eyed conversations about conservation and public health
Nature is moving into the city, and it is not waiting for our permission. I sit down with award-winning writer and epide...
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You Visited Me. Grace and Healing in the Modern Medical Center
By Dr Robert Collins, MD Ignatius Press ignatius.com
A cancer doctor who lives by evidence and protocols tells a story that begins with an interruption he can’t explain: a question, heard like a voice in a lab, that challenged the idea that reality is only matter ...
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The Forgotten World War
Exploring the Secret History of the American Revolution, from Spain to India and Back Again by Derek Baxter published by Source Books
Follow the American Revolution far beyond the 13 colonies and trace how diplomacy, logistics, and foreign interests shape independence. We talk with author Derek Baxter about the overl...
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The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution by Mollie Heningway
The Supreme Court doesn’t just decide cases; it teaches the country what power is allowed to do. Today onCross Word Books, Michele McAloon talks with Molly Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist and Fox News contributor, about her book on Justice Samuel Alito and why his originalism sits at the center of Americ...
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The Declaration of Independence isn’t just a set of famous lines we quote every July. It’s a battered physical object that survived close calls, a national symbol that took decades to become sacred, and a cultural artifact that ended up on walls, plates, and posters. As the United States heads toward the 250th anniversary and the semi-quincentennial conversation ramps...
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The world you take for granted is younger than you think and it was never guaranteed. We sit down with Patrick Wyman, creator of Tides of History and Past Lives and author of Lost Worlds; How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World to trace the volatile 10,000-year span after the last Ice Age when farming, herding, villages, social hierarchies, and writing begin to resh...
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Two men got the highway signs—but the real Lewis and Clark Expedition story was a crowded canoe. We sit down with Craig Fehrman to discuss This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark and why the expedition only comes into focus when we follow the people history usually pushes to the margins—and when we take Native nations seriously as powers, not scenery.
If you ca...
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Andrew Jackson is one of those American names people think they understand until they look closer. We sit down with historian David S. Brown, author of Andrew Jackson: The First Populist, to walk through the life that turned “Old Hickory” into a national symbol, a political weapon, and a permanent argument. From a hazy birthplace and a brutal frontier childhood to...
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The Westerners MythMaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
We talk with historian Megan Kate Nelson about how the American West gets turned into a story and how that story shapes who counts as a “real” Westerner. We follow seven lives that expose the networks, conflicts and choices that the frontier myth often hides.
• Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis ...
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Wisdom from the Cross
How Jesus' Seven Last Words Teach Us How to Live (and Die) Well
Holy Week can feel familiar until you slow down and listen to what Jesus actually says while he’s dying. Those final phrases from the cross, known as the Seven Last Words of Christ, are not random last breaths. They’re a compressed guide to fo...
If you care about Russian history, Soviet culture, environmental history, or how geography shapes war,
Russia looks different when you stop treating nature like background scenery. We sit down with writer and Cornell professor Sophie Pinkham to talk about The Oak and the Larch and the idea that the Russian forest, the taiga, and the swamp belt are not just settings in history, but drivers of it, shaping how peo...
Feminism is supposed to make women safer, freer, and happier. So why does it so often leave behind loneliness, rivalry, collapsed families, and a constant need to prove we’re “enough”? I sit down with Dr. Carrie Gress, PhD, scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America and author of “Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be Fuse...
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A voice from the golden age of flight opens the door to one of history’s most enduring mysteries. We sit down with National Geographic writer Rachel Hartigan, author of Lost: Amelia Earhart’s Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life, to trace Earhart’s path from a refined but unstable Midwestern childhood to global fame—and the fateful push t...
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A single ice axe swung in a quiet Mexico City study, but the shockwave started decades earlier, on the edges of a collapsing empire. We follow the combustible rivalry between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin—from exile and revolution to a propaganda war that turned one man’s image into the regime’s most useful enemy. Our guest, author Josh...
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Think misinformation started with the internet? We rewind five centuries to watch it form in real time. With historian Matthew Restall, we separate the historic Christopher Columbus from the patriotic mascot and the Italian American symbol, and we track how printing presses, royal propaganda, immigration waves, and...
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Presidents aren’t just dates and policies; they’re people formed by families, faith, loss, ambition, and a country that rarely stops arguing. We sat down with author and veteran editor Mary Carol Ghislin to unpack her new book—a compact, classroom-friendly journey through every U.S. president that doubles as an eye-opening guide for adults ...
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What if a city without modern newspapers learned to think like a public anyway? We sit down with historian Robert Darnton to chart how Paris, from 1748 to 1789, became an information society powered by parades, fireworks, songs, rumor, and street theater. Instead of headlines, “publication” meant a royal herald reading peace aloud while bands played—...
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