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Alan Cheuse reviews Loving Che by Ana Menendez, a novel about paternity, citizenship, and identity told from the perspective of a young Cuban-American woman seeking to learn the truth behind her family history.

The Declaration of Independence is really a list of grievances against the crown, and some of their meanings are hard to decipher. NPR's Andrea Seabrook speaks with MIT history professor Pauline Maier about the reasons behind one of the nation's most celebrated documents. She is the author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence.

A founding member of The Suicide Commandos discusses Twin Cities music history.

A new historic marker will be unveiled in Danville today to honor the first African-Americans to enlist in the Union Army in Kentucky. The marker will pay…

a professor of labor history at Cornell University...about this week's gathering of the nation's largest labor union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Delegates representing the union's 1.4 million members will decide on candidates for the general election of a new leader later this year.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that settlers in Hebron are touting their version of history in tours designed especially for tourists to the region. The settlers are trying to convince tourists that Jews have a unique right to control the holy places of Hebron and to prevent Israel from redeploying Israeli troops from the city.

In celebration of Black History Month, reporter Neal Rauch [rowch] profiles the controversial actor and singer Paul Robeson. Perhaps best known for his definitive rendition of "Old Man River", Robeson's career was ruined when he was blacklisted in the 1950's for his outspoken views on communism and his criticism of the treatment of blacks in the United States.

Host Liane Hansen speaks to Gary Pomerantz, a ournalsit and Los Angeles native who moved to Atlanta. After years of research, omerantz has written a book, "Where Peachtree meets Sweet Auburn" (Scribner), bout the history of Atlanta and two of its most prominent families, one white nd the other black.

the cult group that committed mass suicide in suburban San Diego. The group was thought to be unkown, but actually has a history going back 20 years

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that Kurdish leader Mahmoud Barzani's alliance with Baghdad one week, followed by reconciliation talks with American officials the next week, can be explained by a long history among Kurds of pitting one regional power against another in their aborted effort to carve out their own Kurdish nation from parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.