Adventures With the Fourth Estate

…a random selection of media hits


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— Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

Denise visits The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.


August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer was in theaters, Rolling Stone asked me to write about all the other folks—especially young women—who were the focus of The Girls of Atomic City and worked behind the scenes on the Manhattan Project.


Denise at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Historian Gretchen Skidmore and journalist Denise Kiernan talked about how women's roles changed during World War II, from joining the war effort as part of the workforce to using their social and political influence to help European Jews and refugees. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Women's History Museum co-hosted this event




Denise spoke with MSNBC about The Girls of Atomic City

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Denise in Rolling Stone

Denise on C-SPAN

Denise welcomes C-SPAN into her North Carolina home to discuss The Last Castle.

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