History

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The national reckoning over race and history is playing out in the world of birds

6:03am November 15, 2021

by Melissa Block

The Audubon Naturalist Society is dropping the name Audubon. John James Audubon was a famous ornithologist, who was also an enslaver and a grave robber who seized the skulls of Native Americans.

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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and thousands of other ships, to be memorialized

8:02am November 13, 2021

The annual Great Lakes Memorial takes place Sunday at the Mariners' Church of Detroit. Rev. Jeffrey Hubbard describes the event's significance and its roots in a 1975 shipwreck.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said last week he will make masculinity a signature political issue.

Politics & Government

Sen. Josh Hawley claims masculinity is under attack. This historian disagrees

5:48pm November 11, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Hawley is calling for a "revival of ... manhood in America." Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University professor and the author of Jesus and John Wayne, explains how masculinity is a political issue.

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This Julia Child documentary gives a new look at one of America's brilliant chefs

5:06pm November 11, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Besty West and Julie Cohen about their new documentary on Julia Child's life and work, Julia.

Kenneth Branagh's 'Belfast' shows the Troubles through the eyes of a 9-year-old

4:31pm November 11, 2021

by Bob Mondello

Actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh made his name directing cinematic versions of Shakespeare, then Agatha Christie and Marvel movies. Now, with Belfast, he's made his most personal film.

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After placing flowers, a person in military uniform salutes at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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Visitors allowed on Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Plaza for the first time in a century

2:00pm November 10, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

While ceremonies are held at the tomb almost every day, this is the first time since its creation in 1921 that members of the public have been allowed to walk on the plaza to pay their respects.

An Apple-1 computer and a 1986 Panasonic video monitor sold for $400,000 on Tuesday.

National

An original Apple-1 computer sells for $400,000

4:43pm November 09, 2021

by Tien Le

The computer is one out of the 200 Apple-1 computers that were designed and built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.

Charlton Heston (left), then president of the NRA, meets with fellow leaders Wayne LaPierre (far right) and Jim Baker (center) on April 30, 1999, ahead of the NRA's annual meeting in Denver. Around the same time, leaders discussed how to respond to the sh

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A secret tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings

4:18pm November 09, 2021

by Tim Mak

Just after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, NRA leaders agonized over what to do. NPR obtained recordings of the calls, which lay out how the NRA has handled mass shootings ever since.

Left to right: Filipino American health care workers Karen Cantor, Karen Shoker, and John Paul Atienza were among many who cared for COVID patients in the early days of the pandemic.

Health & Safety

Filipino American health workers reflect on trauma and healing on COVID's frontlines

10:53am November 09, 2021

by Rosem Morton

They have shouldered an outsize share of COVID-19's burden, statistics show. Many lost family members; others got sick themselves, recovered and carried on. Meet the caregivers.

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Scuba diver in Wisconsin finds a 1,200-year-old canoe

7:15am November 09, 2021

Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen was exploring Lake Mendota when she saw what might have been a log. Instead it was a 15-foot-long dugout canoe which was carved somewhere around the year 800.

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