Vice presidential debates have produced many memorable moments, but it’s hard to say any has made a decisive difference in the election outcome. It’s worth recalling how much media heat and drama they have generated.
Arkansas unveiled a new statue of Johnny Cash in the U.S. Capitol. Cash, the first musician to be honored in the building, replaces a statue of a Confederate general.
A yearslong dispute between two federally recognized tribes — the Muscogee Nation from Oklahoma and Poarch Band of Creek Indians from Alabama — over the future of the remains of people from which both tribes claim descent was heard in the Federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.
The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.
Sabin Howard's sculpture, A Soldier's Journey, features 38 human figures meant to tell the story of a single “doughboy," a nickname used for American World War I soldiers.
A look back at other sitting vice presidents who were running for the top job and debating on TV against the nominee of the opposition party: Gore in 2000, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Nixon in 1960.
A new Peacock series, "Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist," spotlights Atlanta's pivotal role in one of the most dramatic—and lesser known—events in American history. GPB's Pamela Kirkland sat down with Will Packer, executive producer on the series and best known for his work on movies like "Ride Along," Girls Trip," and "Straight Outta Compton." And Shaye Ogbonna, the series creator, producer and writer.
Time to show your economic history skills based on what we’ve covered in Planet Money Summer School 2024: An Incomplete Economic History of the World. Make it through the quiz, and receive a — and we cannot stress this enough — totally fake (yet well-earned) diploma.
In Oak Ridge Cemetery in Macon, Ga., efforts to understand a once willfully forgotten Black cemetery are leading people to a new understanding of their history.
In 1908, a white lynch mob of thousands terrorized a Black neighborhood in Springfield, Ill. The events were so horrific they led to the founding of the NAACP.
Researchers may have solved a Stonehenge mystery — and raised another. They say its central Altar Stone somehow got to England from Scotland, hundreds of miles farther away than originally thought.
In the months leading up to DNC 2024, "Chicago ‘68" has been repeatedly conjured. But there is nothing in this political climate to compare to '68 and the all-encompassing anxiety over Vietnam.
Republicans' attacks on Tim Walz's military record mirror a 2004 smear campaign against John Kerry in some key ways. Here's how swift boating played out then — and what's different this time around.
