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The last year has been a productive one for many members of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Murray State, as many faculty members have not only…

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous blues trail. Civil rights leaders say many are hungry for more context around the origins of the blues.

In the early 1940s when the Army Air Force faced a shortage of pilots, it launched an experimental program to train new ones — the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

The drop on the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday was 1,175 points. Put another way, blue-chip stocks lost about 4.6 percent of their value in one day. Foreign markets followed Wall Street.

On this week's Alt Latino, we spend time with an album from Colombian singer Totó la Momposina. NPR's Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Felix Contreras about Tambolero.

At Sunday's Oscars, the one true surprise came in the biggest moment of all. For the first time, a foreign language film won best picture. Parasite is a comedy-drama-thriller about class and secrets.

A growing number of history and civics educators are trying to highlight the roles of Native Americans in U.S. history. For one professor in Massachusetts, that effort is personal.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff about President Obama's economic legacy.

President Obama will face opposition in 2015 in both the House and Senate. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to historian Michael Beschloss about how Obama will (or will not) work with the 114th Congress.

Stephanie Feldman's debut novel is about Jewish folk tales and family history. It's also an exploration of the inheritance of loss and the guilt of survival as it is passed down through generations.