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Caitlin Dickerson is an NPR News Investigative Reporter. She tackles long-term reporting projects that reveal hidden truths about the world, and contributes to breaking news coverage on NPR's flagship programs. Her work has been honored with some of the highest awards in broadcast journalism, including a George Foster Peabody Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2015, Dickerson was also a finalist for the Livingston Award.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with historian Julian Hayter, of the University of Richmond, about the push-back on using Critical Race Theory to teach American history.

David Greene talks to Peter Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Wehner served three GOP administrations and now writes about concerns over the moral fracturing of society and its dangers.

1: Historian DAN T. CARTER. His book, Scottsboro was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in History for the best book in American History. CARTER's newest book is a biography of George Wallace, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. (Simon & Schuster). In the book CARTER contends that Wallace paved the way for the conservatism that is now a big part of Republican politics. CARTER is Kenan Professor of History at Emory University.(THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

In his new book The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, he examines the checkered history of our countrys right to vote, and how this right was not for a time extended to certain groups of people, from propertyless whitemen, to women, immigrants, and African-Americans. Even now, he argues, that the wealthy and well-educated are for more likely to go to the polls than the poor and under educated. Keyssar is Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University.

2014 was a year for faraway cuisines to take up residence in U.S. kitchens — cookbook authors cast their nets for flavors from Paris, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and points in between.

at the Smithsonian Museum of American History on chocolate. There was a lecture, a few history lessons, and of course, plenty of taste-testing.

- Daniel talks with New York City Public Parks Department chief Henry Stern about the the history of public restrooms in America. Stern reports history is not good to people who love public parks.

New works being produced at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will expand the mural’s reach along the LA River.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: In the first of a series of essays commemorating Black American History month, Lester Sloan tells us about a hotel in California that became a fixture during the state gold rush of l869.