Harry S. Truman

When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.

She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.

Revisiting John Hersey's groundbreaking "Hiroshima."

As white, southern troops raised the battle flag, they showed that they were fighting for change abroad—but the status quo at home.

As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, we're going to see a lot of journalistic takes on them — many of them totally wrong.

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.

The number of MoMA-CIA crossovers is highly suspicious, to say the least.

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.

As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.

In 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual.

The storied African American newspaper will switch to a digital-only platform starting July 11.

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers.

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.