History

Pilots Who Flew For Air America In Vietnam Fight For Pensions

8:22am June 02, 2019

by Greg Myre

America's final act in the Vietnam War produced an iconic image: a helicopter on a rooftop as desperate Vietnamese tried to climb aboard. For some involved in the mission, the story isn't over.

Books

Book: 'A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father'

5:10pm June 01, 2019

David Maraniss speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea about his latest book — a look into his father's struggles after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.

Students stand face to face with police. Tens of thousands of students from across the country, as well as professors, blue-collar workers and passersby, joined the protests.

World News

30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'

1:16pm May 31, 2019

by NPR Staff

Rare photos and testimonies from 1989 portray a bold youth movement that helped shape where China is today and how the world sees it, in spite of authorities' efforts to erase the memory.

Learning About The Holocaust Could Soon Be Mandatory In Oregon Thanks To This Friendship

4:59pm May 30, 2019

Oregon public schools could soon be required to teach students about the Holocaust starting in the 2020-2021 school year thanks to an unlikely friendship between a Holocaust survivor and a young girl.

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Books

Fans Worldwide Prepare To Honor Bicentennial Of Walt Whitman's Birth

6:29am May 30, 2019

by Tom Vitale

American poet Walt Whtman was born 200 years ago on May 31, 1819. His Leaves Of Grass has been called the most important book of American poetry ever. Yet in 1855, he could barely give it away.

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Look It Up: The Dramatic History Of The Dictionary

3:29pm May 29, 2019

The story of how a new(ish) language shaped the new nation.

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CBS' Scott Pelley On 'Truth Worth Telling'

4:44pm May 28, 2019

The 60 Minutes correspondent and former CBS Evening News anchor gets real about truths worth telling.

National

Remembering Voting Rights Activist Theresa Burroughs

5:27pm May 25, 2019

The Alabama civil rights foot soldier, who marched for voting rights and endured an attack on Selma's Edmund Pettus bridge, has died at age 89. She founded a civil rights museum in Greensboro, Ala.

In October 1983, rescuers probe the wreckage of the U.S. Marine command building near the Beirut airport, a day after a terrorist attack killed 241 U.S. service members.

National

Survivor Of Deadly 1983 Beirut Bombing: 'We Don't Talk About It Much'

1:46pm May 24, 2019

Navy hospital corpsman James Edward Brown wasn't far from U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 that were the target of a terrorist attack. At StoryCorps, Brown remembers what he saw that day.

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National

The Clotilda, Last Known Ship To Bring Slaves To The U.S., Discovered In Alabama

5:50pm May 23, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author and documentary filmmaker Ben Raines about the discovery of the Clotilda, the last ship known to have brought slaves into the United States.

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