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For a decade, StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving Listen has encouraged students, like those in Stacy Flannery's history class, to record the stories of the elders in their families.

NPR's A Martinez talks to James Gelvin, professor of modern Middle East history at UCLA, about what, if any faction, is a dominant voice for the Palestinians.

Workers at UPS could be heading for a strike. If that happens, it would be the largest walkout against a single company in U.S. history.

The measure passed 93-0 in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, reflecting widespread support for punishing those found responsible for what was the deadliest attack in Israel's history.

Citizens of the United States Of America have long used the shorthand America. NPR's podcast Throughline discovered that the name had a much more interesting history than was expected.

Critic Ann Powers embarks on a wide-ranging history of pop music in America in her new book Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music.

After decades, a Connecticut man found his grandfather's grave in the Netherlands, and the Dutch family members that were the grave's volunteer caretakers.

Dolores Huerta was one of the co-founders of the group that became the United Farm Workers. She's continuing her activism of more than 60 years and her life is the focus of a new documentary, Dolores.

A little over two weeks ago, we spoke with two professors of Murray State's history department who were among the 72 Kentucky history professors who…

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower and Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s offer a look at the future of China's Communist Party.