C-SPAN Bookshelf

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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!

Episodes · 25

AW: The Future is Peace with Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon

Jun 14, 2026 · 1h 9m

BN+: Lerone Bennett Jr., "Forced Into Glory"

Jun 9, 2026 · 1h 2m

Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory"

Jun 8, 2026 · 1h 2m

David Baldacci on Writing Thrillers and Becoming a Bestselling Author

Jun 7, 2026 · 1h 2m

AW: Suing the NSA and Fighting Digital Surveillance

Jun 7, 2026 · 1h 14m

Lois Romano, "An Inconvenient Widow"

Jun 2, 2026 · 1h 8m

Q&A: Gayle Feldman, "Nothing Random"

Jun 1, 2026 · 59m

Ann Patchett on Writing, Bookstores & Storytelling with David Rubenstein

May 31, 2026 · 1h 2m

AW: "Poisoned Ivies" with R-NY Rep. Elise Stefanik

May 31, 2026 · 46m

Danny Funt, "Everybody Loses"

May 26, 2026 · 1h 26m

Q&A: Lamar Alexander, "Education of a Senator"

May 25, 2026 · 1h 1m

AW: The Pilots who Evacuated Ebola Patients in 2014

May 24, 2026 · 1h 2m

BN+: Theo Baker, "How to Rule the World"

May 19, 2026 · 1h 10m

Q&A: Adam Szetela, "That Book Is Dangerous!"

May 18, 2026 · 1h 3m

ABC: Candice Millard Discusses Theodore Roosevelt, James A. Garfield & Winston Churchill

May 17, 2026 · 1h 2m

AW: Modern Russian History through the Experiences of its Women

May 17, 2026 · 48m

Harvey Mansfield, "Where Harvard Went Wrong"

May 12, 2026 · 1h 7m

Q&A: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776

May 11, 2026 · 50m

ABC: Heather Cox Richardson on Democracy, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War

May 10, 2026 · 1h 1m

AW: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care

May 10, 2026 · 1h 8m

Bruce Nichols, "The Emerson Circle"

May 5, 2026 · 1h 7m

Q&A: Historian & Biographer Robert Caro

May 4, 2026 · 1h 3m

ABC: Douglas Brinkley on America at 250, D-Day, and the Space Race

May 3, 2026 · 1h 2m

The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms

May 3, 2026 · 1h 2m

Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise"

Apr 28, 2026 · 1h 10m