Search results for

For the first time in Super Bowl history, all the needed power came from a renewable source. Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas gets its power from a Nevada solar farm.

Music by the Greenlandic indie-rock band Nanook is part of the country's history of calling for social and political change through art.

From Thomas Jefferson's cut-up Bible to the country's first printed hymnal, the Smithsonian's Religion in Early America exhibit wants to engage Americans with the role of religion in its first days.

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

Terkel, who came of age during the Great Depression, often said America suffered from what he called a national Alzheimer's disease. His oral histories and radio interviews with everyday Americans helped document the nation's past.

Relatives of a former U.S. sailor and coin collector have returned part of his massive and rare collection to the Shanghai Mint Museum. The coins reflect 2,000 years of Chinese history, and the bequest represents the start of a series of returns the family plans.

The official curriculum for the new Advanced Placement course released Wednesday removed topics like Black Lives Matter that drew criticism from conservatives including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But writer Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story.

The memories of those who survived Chernobyl were collected in the book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. We hear some of their stories.

Cultural historian Christopher Frayling's new book Once Upon A Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone is a large-format, beautifully illustrated book that chronicles the history of the spaghetti western through researched text and interviews with Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and Eli Wallach.