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A generation after The Beatles parted ways, the group's swan song -- the album Let It Be -- is being reissued. But this time, the music will be closer to the original intent, meaning no Phil Spector choirs and strings. Listen to rare Beatles tracks from the Let It Be sessions, as well as music from other artists originally on the Apple label.

In 1921, 7,000 miners fought a pitched battle to unionize West Virginia coal fields. The dispute at Blair Mountain remains one of the largest armed uprisings in U.S. history. Now the fight is over preserving the area or mining it.

A national collaboration of radio producers, artists, iron workers, bond traders, historians, widows and widowers commemorate the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood. A project of Lost and Found Sound and the Sonic Memorial Project.

Up until recently, the likely composers of the great American symphony looked remarkably similar: all white, overwhelmingly male. But recent developments have opened up the doors to composers who were once lost to history.

James Brown once remarked that singer Usher Raymond was "the Godson of Soul." With an accolade like that, it's no wonder that Usher is one of the bestselling artists in American music history. Usher's soon-to-be released seventh studio album is called Looking 4 Myself.

Forty-five years ago, the bodies of two young black men turned up, brutally mangled, in a tributary of the Mississippi River. In a new book, author Harry MacLean explores the trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale for the murders decades later — and Mississippi's continued struggle with its racial history.

In a new book, Watching What We Eat, author Kathleen Collins offers a history of cooking shows, from radio's "Aunt Sammy," who offered tips to housewives in 1926, to today's Food Network.

Noted historian and pioneering Duke University Professor John Hope Franklin died yesterday at the age of 94. The legendary educator was widely respected for chronicling the African-American experience. Franklin's friends discuss his lasting legacy.

A three-part series on the history of competition, big business, and antitrust law, one of the most important but least-understood bodies of law in the United States.

You've got to get up early — before dawn, even — to really make a killing at a flea market. So says Maureen Stanton, whose new book explores the subculture. It's called Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America.