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A bipartisanship group of senators — (from left) Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, and Birch Bayh, D-Ind. — hold a news conference in 1980.

You're Going To Hear A Lot About The 'Byrd Rule' Soon — Who Is This Byrd Man?

As Democrats try to pass their massive multi-trillion-dollar spending bill with a simple majority vote, lots of things might be included but other things might not. And it all goes back to one man.

'Throughline': 2 decades later have we caught up to Radiohead's prophetic vision?

The team of the NPR history podcast Throughline talks to singer Thom Yorke and art designer Stanley Donwood about two Radiohead albums that captured the anxieties and dread of the early 2000s.

Lee Elder watches the flight of his ball as he tees off in the first round of play at the Masters in Augusta, Ga., on April 10, 1975. Elder broke racial barriers as the first Black golfer to play in the Masters and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others to follow.

Golf pioneer Lee Elder, who broke the race barrier at the Masters, dies at 87

Elder made history in 1975 when he became the first Black golfer to compete at the Masters tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. No details about his death were immediately available.

W. Kamau Bell asks all the right questions in 'We Need to Talk About Cosby'

Nothing is sensationalized or trivialized in Bell's four-part documentary, which reckons with Bill Cosby's legacy both as a barrier-breaking Black star and as a sexual predator.

Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk releases 'The Books of Jacob'

The latest novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk takes us back to 18th century Eastern Europe. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with her and Jennifer Croft, the translator of "The Books of Jacob."

Forgotten Americans' 15 Pages of Fame

Author Michael Farquhar has a new book of mini biographies called A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans. These are people whom, for some reason, official history has overlooked — among others, a swashbuckling female pirate and a "DO-take-prisoners" World War II Marine.

In Turkey, a historic city for three religions is in ruins after the earthquake

We take a tour through Antakya, Turkey, a city that played an important role in Jewish, Christian and Muslim history. It was devastated by the recent earthquake.

Archbishop Georg Ganswein kneels by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is brought to St. Peter's Square for a funeral mass at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.

Thousands mourn Benedict XVI at funeral celebrated by pope

Bells tolled Thursday for the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who made history by retiring, as thousands of mourners packed St. Peter's Square.

For years, North American Aerospace Command — or NORAD — had its headquarters inside Cheyenne Mountain, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. In this archival photo, a bus enters a tunnel for a half-mile trip to a command center inside the Cheyenne complex. The headquarters is now in nearby Colorado Springs.

From tracking Santa to Chinese spy balloons, here's what we know about NORAD

The air defense center was created in the 1950s, as a counter to a rival superpower. Now NORAD is front and center again, prompting questions about what it does — and how it copes with modern threats.

'Throughline': How one company contributed greatly to America's sweet tooth

NPR's history podcast Throughline explains how in the 1970s Dwayne Andreas, CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, used the sugar market to popularize high fructose corn syrup.

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