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The United Auto Workers union strike enters its third week, but the history of their fight goes back to the 1930s.

The Johnny Cash statue, representing Arkansas at the U.S. Capitol, is part of a broader push to replace statues of segregationists throughout the building. (Story aired on ATC on Sept. 24, 2024.)

Only 60 to 70 years ago, patients deemed mentally unstable were sent to isolated rooms in mental asylums as treatment. A hundred years ago and beyond,…

For De'Ana Forbes, a social studies teacher at Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Va., February is a time for celebration.

In Crooked, novelist Austin Grossman excuses Richard Nixon's rocky political career in the weirdest ways possible — by reimagining the former president as a warrior against supernatural forces.

With more than 200 careers under her pink belt, Barbie has always been a hard worker. What can the types of professions Barbie's done tell us about women in the U.S. labor force? A lot, actually.

The Museum of the Bible opens to the public on Saturday in Washington, D.C. NPR's Michelle Martin talks to the museum's executive director, Paul Anthony "Tony" Zeiss.

Alice Randall's innovative new novel chronicles the history of Black Detroit beyond Motown, and features a cast of real life artists, doctors, sports figures, activists and movers and shakers.

Federal workers will return to work Thursday for the first time in 43 days. President Trump signed a bill late Wednesday to fund the government, bringing a close to the longest shutdown in history.

DR. SHERWIN NULAND is a surgeon, and he also teaches surgery and the history of medicine at Yale. In his recent book, "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter" (Knopf), he writes that few of us have an understanding of the way people die because 80 percent of Americans die in the hospital, and, for the most part their deaths are concealed. NULAND's new book is an attempt to de-mythologize the process of dying and he presents death in its biological and clinical reality. Oliver Sacks writes of the book, "A series of portraits or analyses, as powerful and sensitive, and unsparing and unsentimental, as anything I have ever read." (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 2/