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How well do you know Barbie from J. Robert Oppenheimer? What may be the "dumbest political move in history"? And why is that animal doing that?!

Historian Eric Foner recently won the American History Book Prize from the New York Historical Society for Gateway to Freedom, about the underground railroad. Originally broadcast Jan. 15, 2015.

The National Public Housing Museum is now open in Chicago. Installations, exhibits and stories about public housing's successes as well as its challenges are on display.

By Brenna Angelhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkms/local-wkms-966033.mp3Lexington, KY – Long before Internet search engines and…

By Ron Smith/KPRhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkms/local-wkms-979420.mp3Berea, KY – The small, central Kentucky town of Berea has…

One of the keys to understanding present day China is grasping its past. Yale University historian Jonathan Spence helped many people to understand this vast field.

After Jackie, a new History Channel documentary, tells the stories of three of the Black baseball players who followed Jackie Robinson into the major leagues.

Harris is the first vice president to be an alum of a historically Black college, and if she wins, would make history as the first president to be an HBCU graduate.

In the nearly 250-year history of the United States, English had never been designated as the nation's official language.

The Glee star was cast in Les Misérables when she was 8 and has been performing ever since. She says her new album, Places, intentionally calls back to her history onstage.