Storytelling is a relentless human urge and its power forges with memo ry to become the foundation of history. Novelists Charles Johnson (Mid dle Passage), Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha), and Esmeralda Santi ago (America's Dream) join Professor Miller in discussing the intersec tion of history and story. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., closes the series with a reflection on the power of the human imagination.