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The history of the New World is intertwined with the history of rum. That's the view Wayne Curtis takes in his book And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. Curtis elaborates in a conversation with Debbie Elliott.

Years ago, two New Yorker articles told the story of a Harvard dropout who claimed to be writing the longest book ever. Did he succeed? In Joe Gould's Teeth, Jill Lepore tries to answer that question.

As part of the effort, curators at the National Museum of African American History and Culture plan to collect objects that tell the stories of black Americans during the pandemic.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks about southern history with William Ferris, associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

NPR senior new analyst says that several recent leaks have the White House concerned, but this is nothing new in presidential history.

Commentator Lenore Skenazy has some thoughts on the history of wine and beer inspired by a museum visit.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks at the history of residential pardons. 3:30

Commentator Kevin Phillips has some thoughts on the presidential election and how it may be affected by fairly recent political history.

Commentator Peter Loge offers a whimsical approach to one of the closest presidential races in history: Why not have a co-Presidency?

Writer MIKAL GILMORE, youngest brother of executed killer Gary Gilmore. Gilmore's 1977 death --at his own request-- by firing squad in Utah, was the first American execution in ten years. Brother MIKAL finds seeds of his brother's two murders sown far back in Gilmore family history, and its Mormon roots. When asked why he writes a memoir twenty years after the events many Americans remember from Norman Mailer's book "Executioner's Song", GILMORE says, "I'm writing about it now because for many years I tried to live my life as if I wasn't a member of the same family. I put a good deal of distance between myself and other people in my family, and between myself and the history of my family." Recapturing that history is the aim of his new memoir, "Shot in the Heart" (Doubleday). (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 5