History

'Second Founding' Examines How Reconstruction Remade The Constitution

1:27pm September 17, 2019

by Terry Gross

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments relate to current debates about voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery.

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World News

The Revolutionary History Of Mooncakes

7:59am September 14, 2019

Mooncakes are known as an Asian pastry, but the cakes have a revolutionary history, and a current role in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. Bernice Chan of the South China Morning Post discusses.

Friday News Roundup - International

4:43pm September 13, 2019

We cover flying flamingos, Bolton getting the boot and Hubble making history.

Remembering (Or Not Remembering) 9/11

3:50pm September 11, 2019

This week marks 18 years since 9/11. Whole generations of Americans have reached adulthood with little recollection of the terrorist attack.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Meets Leo Varadkar In Ireland

Brexit. We Have Questions And So Do You.

3:50pm September 11, 2019

Order! Order!

Jackie Robinson draws his family close to help him blow out a birthday candle in 1954. From left, his children Sharon, David, and Jackie Jr., with his wife Rachel, above.

Books
Arts

Teen Angst And Civil Rights Meet In A New Memoir — Featuring Jackie Robinson

12:39pm September 11, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

The pioneering baseball player's daughter, Sharon Robinson, has written Child of the Dream, a chronicle of 1963 — a critical year for the Civil Rights movement, and also when she turned 13.

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President Trump walks with Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Brown to speak to the media on return to the White House from Camp David on Sept. 1.

At Camp David, Trump Sought The Mantle Of History. But Afghanistan Is Different

2:34pm September 10, 2019

by Ron Elving

For a generation, "Camp David" was synonymous with peace between Israel and Egypt, but the world — and the long war in Afghanistan — has come a long way from those days.

Religion

A Wisconsin church built entirely by hand from the forests around it has been operating continuously since 1853. St. John Chrysostom is an example of the "carpenter Gothic" style.