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For 10 years, journalist Yang Jinsheng secretly collected official evidence about the terrible famine in China a half-century ago. In his chilling book Tombstone — which is banned in his homeland — Yang estimates that 36 million people died of starvation and other causes during the famine, even as grain exports continued.

Have you heard of Bass Reeves? Richard Potter? Spottswood Rice? "Box" Brown? If not, illustrator-historian Joel Christian Gill says, you're missing out on some of the best stories in American history.

When President Trump initially planned a rally in Tulsa, Okla., on June 19, some Americans were outraged. NPR's Noel King speaks with two historians about the significance of that day and city.

NBA coaching legend Phil Jackson and basketball writer Sam Smith take their decades-long friendship to the page in their book Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 players.

March 31, formerly celebrated as César Chávez Day, is now Farmworkers Day in California. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Oliver Rosales, a history professor at Bakersfield College.

Timothy C. Winegard has written a well-researched work of narrative nonfiction that offers a history of the world through the role that mosquitoes — and mosquito-borne illnesses — have played in it.

Many historical markers that told stories of Black history have been damaged or stolen in recent years. Communities are struggling with their absence.

Jackson is now playing King Lear on Broadway. Linguist Geoff Nunberg explains why "socialism" is no longer a scare word. And Tyler Kepner discusses his book K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Eric Marcus of Making Gay History about his collection of oral histories on the Stonewall riots, which happened 50 years ago this week.

A 22-year-old Kansas City artist, Kearra Johnson, transforms a school art project into a tribute to Black history – a standard playing card deck with face cards that portray African American icons.