On this weekly program, historian, professor, and author, Dr. John C. Pinheiro, interviews historians and the men and women who made history about how we are shaped by what has gone before. Rooted in Edmund Burke's conception of the world as a "community of souls" connecting past, present, and future generations, "Past is Prologue" offers serious reflection on the past. While history does not repeat itself, for good or ill it influences the present and even helps form our response to it. Above all, history can serve as a warning against hubris, and so understanding it is a necessary, if humbling, exercise.