History

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I went hunting for the 14th Amendment, the document that could bar Trump from ballots

4:45pm February 07, 2024

by Luke Garrett

Come on an adventure inside the research facility holding the Civil War-era document that could bar former President Donald Trump from the White House.

Books
Arts

MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid revisits the legacy and marriage of Medgar and Myrlie Evers

1:39pm February 07, 2024

by Terry Gross

Reid's new book, Medgar and Myrlie, tells the stories of the civil rights leader from Mississippi and his wife, who became a civil rights activist after Medgar's 1963 assassination.

New York Yankees' Babe Ruth hits a baseball in this undated photo.

What's behind people's enduring interest in Babe Ruth

11:53am February 06, 2024

by Joe Hernandez

Babe Ruth would have been 129 this week. Baseball has changed over the years, but one thing that has endured is fans' fascination with one of the greatest sluggers ever to set foot on the diamond.

Books

Can American democracy survive the pressure it's under? A historian has an answer

8:09am February 06, 2024

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to historian Allen Guelzo about his book, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment.

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A lone shopper heads into a Target store on Jan. 11 in Lakewood, Colo.

Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

5:35pm February 02, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

Politics & Government

Does history support removing Donald Trump from the presidential ballot?

5:12am January 31, 2024

Colorado removed Trump from the ballot, and the Supreme Court will soon hear the case. Historians Jill Lepore and David Blight, who support Colorado's decision, talk to NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Estelle Laughlin, 94, survived the Nazi concentration camps along with her older sister and mother. She was photographed in her living room in Lincolnshire, Illinois, on October 6, 2023.

Health & Safety

A Holocaust survivor identifies with the pain of both sides in the Israel-Hamas war

4:45pm January 30, 2024

by Ari Daniel

As a girl of 10, Estelle Laughlin and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, then sent to a concentration camp. She lived through the Nazi genocide. This new war has shaken her to her core.

National

The peculiar origins of the second amendment defense

4:43pm January 30, 2024

by Ramtin Arablouei

For most of U.S. history, the second amendment was rarely invoked to challenge laws, until a bank robber used it to justify ownership of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun, launching a legal battle.

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National

Exploration team may have spotted Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane in the Pacific

5:11am January 30, 2024

NPR's A Martinez talks to CEO Tony Romeo of Deep Sea Vison, about ocean explorers from his firm that may have found the wreckage of Earhart's plane, which disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

The object spotted in the Pacific Ocean by deep water equipment aligns with the size and shape of Earhart's aircraft.

Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly spotted in the Pacific by exploration team

3:17pm January 29, 2024

by Juliana Kim

Deep Sea Vision says its sonar image equipment spotted an object in the Pacific Ocean that closely resembles the shape and size of Amelia Earhart's aircraft.