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Visitors walk around the outside of the Alamo in San Antonio.

'Forget The Alamo' Author Says We Have The Texas Origin Story All Wrong

Jun 16, 2021
In a new book, Bryan Burrough and co-writers Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford challenge the historical lore of the Alamo — including the story that Davy Crockett refused to surrender.
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Martin King Tells The Story Of Nevada's World War II Veterans

Nov 12, 2021
Original Story Posted on March 11, 2020
 
More than 75 years ago, German troops launched a massive 
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National
Doyle's owner, Gerry Burke Jr., is selling the cafe's liquor license. The restaurant business has changed, and for Burke, the pub (shown here in 2015) is no longer viable.

Bostonians Lament Loss Of 137-Year-Old Pub And Its Trove Of History

Oct 06, 2019
Doyle's Café has been in business since 1882, but the owner is closing up shop later this month. Locals are portraying this as yet another nail in the coffin of Boston history and tradition.
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History
At a ceremony Monday at the White House, President Trump defended his racist tweets against Democratic lawmakers. The language used in that tweet has a long history connected with nativist political movements in the U.S.

'Go Back Where You Came From': The Long Rhetorical Roots Of Trump's Racist Tweets

Jul 15, 2019
When the president told several young congresswomen of color to "go back" to where they came from, he borrowed nativist language about as old as the country itself. Here's a little history.
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National
Sadie Roberts-Joseph founded the Baton Rouge African American History Museum in 2001. She was a prominent civil rights activist and community leader.

Founder Of African American History Museum Discovered Dead In Car Trunk

Jul 14, 2019
Sadie Roberts-Joseph was a prominent civil rights activist and community leader in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She founded the city's African American History Museum in 2001.
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Book Reviews
<em>This America: The Case for the Nation</em>, by Jill Lepore

'This America' Pits Rise In Nationalism Against Championing Of Liberal Democracy

May 31, 2019
Jill Lepore, author of These Truths, argues that supporters of free and fair liberal government can't just hold their noses and wait for voters to realize that democracy is better than autocracy.
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Book Reviews
<em>The Pioneers</em>, by David McCullough

'The Pioneers' Dives Deep Into Lives Of Northwest Territory Settlers

May 08, 2019
Like David McCullough's other books, this one succeeds because of the author's strength as a storyteller; it reads like a novel and is packed with information drawn from painstaking research.
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Hidden Brain
A copy of the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News sits in a newspaper box on a street corner in Denver, Colorado.

Stop The Presses! Newspapers Affect Us, Often In Ways We Don't Realize

Apr 04, 2019
This week we consider what we misunderstand about newspapers – from their long history of hype, to the hidden price we pay when they close.
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Book Reviews
Stony the Road, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

In 'Stony The Road,' Henry Louis Gates Jr. Looks At The Period After Reconstruction

Apr 03, 2019
In his new book, the literary scholar presents an absorbing, necessary look at the "Redemption" era, in which the hard-fought gains of African-Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern whites.
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Book Reviews

'These Truths' Looks At America Through The Promises Of Its Beginning

Sep 18, 2018
By engaging with our country's past — and present — in an intellectually honest way, Jill Lepore has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and triumph.
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Hidden Brain

Fake News: An Origin Story

Jun 25, 2018
Fake news in the U.S. is as old as American journalism itself. We explore the trade-offs journalists have long faced between elitism and populism, and integrity and profit.
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Hidden Brain

Radio Replay: This Is Your Brain On Ads

May 18, 2018
How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio replay, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media.
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Hidden Brain
A century ago, many new immigrants to the United States ended up returning home. And it often took a while for those who stayed to learn English and integrate into American society.

The Huddled Masses And The Myth Of America

Jan 15, 2018
The United States has always thought of itself as a nation of immigrants. So why has immigration been such a controversial topic throughout our nation's history?
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The Salt
Archivist Amy McDonald invited some co-workers to help her re-create cherries jubilee from a university cookbook. But even with a historical paper trail, there were still things they couldn't figure out, like what to do after it starts flaming.

At Duke University, A Bizarre Tour Through American History And Palates

Sep 21, 2017
Through the Rubenstein Test Kitchen project, librarians and staff re-create historical recipes from thousands of cookbooks in the collections. Some dishes are culturally telling ... and comical.
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Around the Nation
Joseph McGill, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, says it's important to preserve and remember the lives and work of enslaved people whose names have often been forgotten.

Looking 'Beyond The Big House' And Into The Lives Of Slaves

Sep 13, 2017
A new house tour bypasses Charleston's antebellum mansions and takes visitors directly to the quarters where enslaved people lived and worked.
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The Two-Way
The 19 men and women who were hanged at Proctor's Ledge during the Salem witch trials 325 years ago have been memorialized at the site of their deaths in Salem, Mass.

Salem Memorializes Those Killed During Witch Trials

Jul 19, 2017
The memorial stands at the site where 19 innocent women and men were hanged. It opened on the 325th anniversary the first mass execution of five women.
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The Salt
Sisters Catherine (left) and Margaret Portner have re-established Portner's Brewery, which was opened in Alexandria, Va., in 1869 by their great-great-grandfather, then closed during Prohibition.

How The Story Of Beer Is The Story Of America

Jul 03, 2017
The Smithsonian's first brewing historian explores everything from immigration to urbanization through the lens of beer. And with the boom in microbrewing, she says beer's story has come full circle.
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The Two-Way
Colonial actor-interpreters walk in front of the courthouse on Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia in 2015.

Colonial Williamsburg Cuts Jobs To Reduce Growing Debt

Jun 29, 2017
Colonial Williamsburg President and CEO Mitchell Reiss says the museum's foundation has been losing millions of dollars a year and was more than $300 million in debt at the end of 2016.
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Politics
Donald Trump plays a round of golf after the opening of The Trump International Golf Links Course on July 10, 2012, in Balmedie, Scotland.

Trump, The Golfer In Chief

Apr 23, 2017
President Trump plays a lot of golf. But not nearly as much as Woodrow Wilson.
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History
U.S. horses were loaded onto transport ships that went from the U.S. to European ports and later to the war front.

The Unsung Equestrian Heroes Of World War I And The Plot To Poison Them

Apr 06, 2017
April 6 marks 100 years since the U.S. entered World War I. Years before, the U.S. supported the effort by sending over thousands of horses — who were so important that Germans plotted to kill them.
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The Salt
A 1950s ad for Duncan Hines ice cream quotes Hines as saying "Many people tell me they first bought it because they regard my name as a guide to good eating."

Duncan Hines: The Original Road Warrior Who Shaped Restaurant History

Mar 26, 2017
The name on that box of cake mix belonged to a real person. Hines was a traveling salesman who just wanted to find a decent meal on the road — and ended up being America's go-to restaurant expert.
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NPR Ed
Ruby Lortie (center, wearing black), marches to get out the vote with other fifth-grade students from Boulder Community School of Integrated Studies in Boulder, Colo.

These Fifth-Graders Think It's Really, Really Important That You Vote

Nov 07, 2016
They're too young to vote, but they're still getting out the vote. After learning about the history of voting and democracy in America, these young activists took their message to a college campus.
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This steel lunch box, made by Aladdin Industries in 1950, was the first to bear a licensed image, and helped Aladdin launch a new product line that would last for decades. <em>Hopalong Cassidy</em> was a popular TV, radio and comic series.

Beyond The Pail: NPR Unpacks The History Of The Lunch Box

Oct 31, 2016
From re-purposed lard pails to bento boxes, the way students carry lunch to school has changed almost as much as the classrooms they learn in.
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The Two-Way
Ida Mae Hughes, 86, of Kansas City, Mo., raises her hands as President Barack Obama arrives at the dedication and opening ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

National Museum of African American History Opens Its Doors

Sep 24, 2016
More than 100 years after it was originally proposed, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is opening its doors in Washington, D.C.
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The Salt
This version of Baked Alaska at Delmonico's restaurant in New York City stays true to the original: a walnut sponge cake layered with apricot compote and banana gelato, covered with torched meringue.

Baked Alaska: A Creation Story Shrouded In Mystery

Mar 29, 2016
In March 1867, the U.S. purchased Alaska. This igloo-shaped, torched-meringue dessert came as a fringe benefit. Was it a sweet flash of genius, political satire — or maybe a bit of both?

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