History

People hold portraits of Soviet leader Josef Stalin in December 2018 as they line up in Moscow to lay flowers at his grave.

World News

Amid 'Quiet Rehabilitation Of Stalin,' Some Russians Honor The Memory Of His Victims

4:46pm July 08, 2019

by Lucian Kim

A civic initiative is commemorating those who were murdered under the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whom many Russians now admire for defeating Nazi Germany and making his nation a superpower.

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Books

Jack Fairweather On The 'Secret Mission To Destroy Auschwitz'

8:09am July 07, 2019

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jack Fairweather about his new book, The Volunteer, which chronicles a Polish man who volunteered to go to Auschwitz in order to start a resistance movement there.

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US Border Patrol Receives Asylum Seekers In Texas' Rio Grande Valley

Friday News Roundup - Domestic

8:23pm July 05, 2019

The July 4 holiday did not mean there was less news.

U.S. President Donald Trump Visits South Korea

Friday News Roundup - International

8:13pm July 05, 2019

From an unprecedented meeting

Science

JoAnn Morgan: The Only Woman In The Firing Room During Apollo 11

5:28am July 05, 2019

by Brendan Byrne

Dozens of technicians and flight controllers piled into the firing room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to count down the launch of Apollo 11. Among the sea of people, JoAnn Morgan was the only woman.

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Ever Wonder What Cocktails The Founding Fathers Enjoyed? We Have The Answers

4:20pm July 04, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish talks about the Founding Fathers' preferred drinks with Derek Brown, the National Archives' Chief Spirits Advisor.

A naturalization ceremony of new U.S. citizens at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia. The U.S. citizenship oath today is 140 words. It wasn't until 1929 that the oath's text was standardized, and the oath was amended in 1952 to emphas

National

How The U.S. Citizenship Oath Came To Be What It Is Today

4:20pm July 04, 2019

If you are born in the United States, citizenship is a birthright. But if you immigrate to this country, the work of the citizenship process culminates in the reciting of an oath.

'Star Spangled Scandal': How An 1859 Sensationalized Crime Set A Modern Day Precedent

12:24pm July 04, 2019

by Jessica Taylor

Author Chris DeRose's examination of "sex, murder and the trial that changed America" shows that glorification of true crime and parstisan rancor is nothing new to American politics.

A July 4 NPR Tradition: A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence

5:18am July 04, 2019

On this Fourth of July, NPR presents our annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. Read the original text alongside photos of the NPR staff members who performed the reading.

Women And American Independence

5:18am July 04, 2019

Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role women played in America's fight for independence from Great Britain.

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