• Book Excerpt: 'Shores of Knowledge'
    October 11, 2013
    Read an excerpt from historian Joyce Appleby's latest book: Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination.
  • Joyce Appleby on Curiosity
    October 11, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    The historian explains how a fascination with America led curiosity-driven Europeans to move beyond church dogma in the pursuit of knowledge that reshaped their understanding of the world.