Teach history with a video game; plus, Southern food goes healthy

The book Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past is out this week. It's about “the most-played digital renditions of American history since The Oregon Trail.” We talk with the author of that book who teaches an American history course based on the video game Red Dead Redemption. 

And, translating a Mediterranean diet for the Southeastern U.S. population, using southern food staples. Recipes, big ideas, and more from a Doctor of Public Health who focuses on nutrition.

Guests

Tore C. Olsson, associate professor, director of Graduate Studies for American History at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Dr. Alice Ammerman, Distinguished Prof. Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Director of Center for Health Promotion and Disease prevention