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Lawmakers are set to ask the Justice Department Friday about why it requested the 2020 census to ask about citizenship. The history of using the U.S. census to ask about citizenship has many twists.

A small group of musicians is trying to preserve American folk music. These players aren't professional archivists or producers; their old, rare cassette and reel-to-reel tapes are scattered across the country. Members of the Field Recorders' Collective want to introduce these recordings to a new generation of musicians online.

United 93 takes an unflinching look at the events surrounding the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. The plane's passengers rushed the terrorists, leading to a fatal crash in a Pennsylvania field.

Rwanda's public school students may be allowed to study their national history for the first time since a bloody ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis in 1994 led to the killing of nearly a million Rwandans. But even if officials lift the ban, controversy about what history to teach will remain.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with U.S. Paralympians Tatyana McFadden and Matt Stutzman about the new Netflix documentary Rising Phoenix, which documents the history of the Paralympic Games.

The documentary filmmaker has been chosen to deliver this year's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for work in the field.

WKMS celebrates Black History Month with special programming in February. This year, we’re featuring three episodes of the series With Good Reason,…

Stretching a meal over several days was once a necessity. And in the 1940s, leftovers were a culinary art. Historian Helen Zoe Veit dishes on America's complicated relationship with leftovers.

The wildfire that is now New Mexico's largest in history is threatening the livelihoods of people who've made a living from the land there for centuries.

Michael Miller, a reporter with The Washington Post, speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish about military recruitment centers and how they have become easy targets for potential violence.