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It's one of the sadder stories in broadcasting history: the first FM radios were rendered completely useless when the federal government MOVED the entire…

History suggests that if the U.S. takes too large a role in the South American country's crisis, it could spark a worse backlash than the original issue, experts and former diplomats warn.

The classroom writing implement has roots in exploding stars, the French Revolution, the British crown jewels and Walden Pond.

A large number of African-American military veterans were murdered by lynching after returning from war. An annual re-enactment of a lynching in Alabama tells one such story.

President Trump reportedly required senior White House staffers to sign nondisclosure agreements. Critics argue the common business practice should not apply in the West Wing.

Three college professors respond to questions about the evolving challenges of teaching the history of a complex nation.

This quirky concoction, which traces its decades-old roots to Fall River, Mass., took off when Chinese restaurants adapted their menus to appeal to European textile workers. And people still love it.

You really begin to appreciate the time-consuming work of digitizing old media when you peruse the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. With a few key words,…

An unearthed archive of eyewitness accounts from the Warsaw ghetto forms the basis of a new Holocaust documentary Who Will Write Our History?NPR's Melissa Block interviews filmmaker Roberta Grossman.

The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will become the Smithsonian Institution's first African American secretary.