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Cartoonist Sam Nakahira details the history of how K-pop became a global phenomenon.

With a husky whisper of a voice and a well-developed acoustic guitar style, Matt Ward might easily be pegged as a folk singer. But reviewer Meredith Ochs says his new album, Hold Time, points in many musical directions.

It is Women's History Month, and for this story we hear from a few WKMS alumni about their unique experiences at WKMS. Laura York worked at WKMS from 1976…

President Trump's stance on immigration isn't new to America's history. Boston Globe Magazine writer Neil Swidey says a group in Boston used these same tactics, even the same rhetoric, 100 years ago.

The Black Forest wildfire near Colorado Springs, Colo., has now destroyed 360 homes, making it the most destructive fire in the state's history. It is zero percent contained.

America's first transcontinental railroad was completed with a golden spike 145 years ago. Thousands of Chinese workers helped build it, but their faces were left out of photos from that historic day.

From lovesick personals to "help wanted" notices with some peculiar requirements: a look at the history of classified ads in the United States. Author Sara Bader shares some of the funny, heartrending and just plain baffling advertisements featured in her book, Strange Red Cow and Other Curious Classified Ads from the Past.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to historian Robert Fatton about ill-fated interventions in Haiti, which is now embroiled in a crisis that has the country on the brink of collapse.

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the executive producer of a new documentary focusing on the lives of black Americans on both sides of the Revolutionary War, whose stories aren't often told.

In the next installment of The History of Democracy, Tracy Ross and Murray State professor of history, Dr. David Pizzo, discuss Hitler's first one hundred…