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A Hopkinsville-Christian County Library support group is raising awareness over a lack of funding for the library. The ‘Friends of the Library’ formed…

Unions in China are typically controlled by management and the government. A union run by democratic vote of the workers would be a huge shift.

Earth's rocks and fossils can help us understand our own species. Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara explains important moments in Earth's history that help us recognize our place in the world.

Linda talks to BBC reporter Charles Scanlon about the proposal announced today by President Clinton and South Korean president Kim Young-Sam for peace talks to end the standoff between North and South Korea. The talks would include the Koreas, the U-S, and China. The immediate reaction from North Korea was negative. Scanlon says that in the past, China has not been particularly enthusiastic about participating in such talks, but in the last few years has come to have and economic relationship with South Korea and may now have an interest in seeing peace on the Korean peninsula. (4:30) 10. WHY TRUCE AND NOT PEACE? - NPR's Ted Clark looks at the history of the armistice in Korea, and why 43 years ago North and South Korea would not agree to peace. In 1953, the South Koreans objected to peace, but today it is the North that is balking.

In 1927, poet Carl Sandburg published The American Songbag, a collection of traditional music. Singer-guitarist Dan Zanes brings the music back in his new CD, Parades and Panoramas.

If it absolutely, positively had to get there overnight -- or as soon as possible in 1860 -- you'd have to put it on the Pony Express. Their riders could travel from Missouri to California in a recording-breaking 10 days. But a little over a year after the first rider set out, the company closed under major debt. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with the author of a new book offering a revisionist history.

Ska Cubano's music merges Jamaican ska and Cuban mambo and son. Born from a "what-if" that erases the 1959 Cuban revolution, the music reimagines musical history.

Citing Bob Dylan and Neil Young as influences, the 26-year-old Irish singer is a master of simple folk songs that focus on his gentle voice and guitar. Regan was raised in a family of musicians, who instilled in him a love of early folk and blues that continues to pervade his music.

Pulitzer Prize winner's 2007 novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union imagines that the fledgling Israel collapsed in 1948 — and part of Alaska was set aside as a temporary refuge for Jews. The inspiration: A real proposal to do just that.

As the producer (and sometimes manager) of many of the 1960s' most influential folk and psychedelic artists, Boyd has left an indelible mark on popular music during his four-decade career. Boyd has produced records by Pink Floyd, Nick Drake and The Incredible String Band.