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People walk past a street shrine to Etan Patz in 2012.

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The Etan Patz case changed how America responds to missing kids

Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared while walking to a school bus stop in 1979. The publicity of the case led to a societal shift and greater coordination among law enforcement.

July 23, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Elaine and Karl Yoneda in March 1933. The couple would later be incarcerated with their son at the Manzanar concentration camp during World War II.

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  • Books

New book 'Together in Manzanar' reveals life inside WWII Japanese internment camp

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

July 22, 2025
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer and
  • Claire Murashima

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  • History

Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family's opposition

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.

July 21, 2025
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The new book <em>Nothing More of This Land </em>traces indigenous communities on Martha's Vineyard. Above, beachgoers on Moshup Beach in July 2010.

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  • Author Interviews

Beyond polo shirts and presidents, Martha's Vineyard has an indigenous past and present

In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity summer scene and into the heart of Noepe, the name his people have called the island for centuries.

July 21, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
A B-24 Liberator and a portrait of 2Lt. Milton Leonard Hymes Jr. Credit- Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum.webp

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  • History

The long journey home: 2Lt. Milton Leonard Hymes, Jr.

A World War II airman is buried in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery 81 years after his plane crashed. 

July 21, 2025
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  • Justin Taylor and
  • The Current
Orango National Park on the Bijagós Archipelago off of the coast of Guinea-Bissau is a newly designated World Heritage Site.

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  • World

Here are some of the newest UNESCO World Heritage sites

Bavarian palaces, imperial tombs in China and memorials to Khmer Rouge victims are among the sites being recognized by the United Nations agency.

July 18, 2025
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  • James Doubek
The view from the rebuilt Grand Canyon Lodge, the sole hotel on the canyon's North Rim. It was destroyed in a wildfire over the weekend, nearly a century after the original burned down.

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  • National

A wildfire destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge. It burned down once before

The Grand Canyon Lodge is the only hotel on the park's North Rim, which is closed for the rest of the season due to wildfire risk. The hotel was already rebuilt once, after a kitchen fire in 1932.

July 14, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Edith Johnson and Dorothea Lambert Chambers face off in the 1910 Wimbledon tournament in London. Lawn tennis — the game we know today — started in the late 19th century but has its roots in a medieval sport.

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  • Sports

Lots of people love tennis. But do you know where it comes from?

Recent years have seen an upswing in people playing tennis (or at least dressing like it). But it's not just a phase. The sport — at least some version of it — has been around since medieval times.

July 11, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Anti-evolution books on sale in Dayton, Tenn., where teacher John Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in the famous 1925 "Monkey Trial."

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  • Science

100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

July 08, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Pope Leo's childhood home in Dolton, Ill., is up for auction later this month.

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Pope Leo's scandal-plagued hometown sees a bright future in buying his childhood home

Pope Leo grew up in a small brick house in the Chicago suburb of Dolton which is now up for auction. The village's board of trustees voted to buy it, in the hopes of creating a historic attraction.

July 03, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
The United States is gearing up for a big birthday: July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Above, Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the declaration was debated and adopted.

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  • History

America has a major birthday coming up — here's what to expect for the big 2-5-0

It's the nation's semiquincentennial! July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's how the United States of America is planning to party.

July 02, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
Signs like this one in the Presidio of San Francisco, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, have been going up around the country in response to President Trump's executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."

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  • Arts & Life

Asked to flag 'negative' National Park content, visitors gave their own 2 cents instead

Signs installed earlier in National Parks earlier in June asked for feedback on signs "that are negative about past or living Americans." Comments viewed by NPR didn't provide the requested feedback.

June 26, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
Museum of London Archaeology specialist Han Li lays out plaster fragments found in London from a Roman building that was demolished some time before A.D. 200.

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  • World

Ancient Roman masterpieces emerge from a London demolition pit

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into the artistic sophistication and daily life of ancient Londinium.

June 20, 2025
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  • Willem Marx
Edith Edmunds, 99, pictured with one of her completed Underground Railroad Code quilts.

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  • National

On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

June 19, 2025
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  • Vanessa Romo
Apple Store in Shanghai, China.

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  • Business

How Apple turbocharged China's development

A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security.

June 17, 2025
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  • Greg Rosalsky
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