 THOMAS CAHILL  
The Middle Ages -- it's often depicted as an era of fear and ignorance -- the tyranny of kings over long suffering peasants. It was also the era of the Crusades -- not exactly a hotbed of progressive ideas. However, in a new book, popular historian Thomas Cahill tells a different story. This is the latest in his Hinges of History series on the evolution of the modern western world. It's called Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World.
Web Exclusive: Bonus footage of Allan Gregg in Conversation with Thomas Cahill
 Click here to purchase Mysteries Of The Middle Ages from Chapters.Indigo.ca
 RONALD WRIGHT
The collapse of Easter Island, the fall of the Roman Empire -- we like to think we're more advanced than those civilizations. We've made too much progress to end up as they did. But historian Ronald Wright sees some alarming similarities between our own society and doomed civilizations of the past. His book is called A Short History of Progress.
Web Exclusive Preview: Allan Gregg in Conversation with Ronald Wright
 Click here to purchase A Short History of Progress from Chapters.Indigo.ca
|
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
